“It’s about giving the prepress operator the choice of the right tools for the job at hand,” said Martin Bailey, CTO of Global Graphics. “To achieve premium quality you need to be able to select from a wide choice of screen resolutions, rulings and dot sizes so that different graphical objects can be produced as well as possible. So we’ve expanded the number of screens available with Harlequin and included a mechanism to auto select the calibration that goes with a particular screen. Prepress operators also now have the ability to bump up curves at the highlight end to compensate for flexo not being able to produce tones close to white clearly. The result is that you can achieve smooth gradations even in high-key images.”
Harlequin Cross Modulated Flexo (HXMFlexo) works with the latest editions of the Harlequin RIP. Cross modulated screens give smooth, noise-free flat tints while retaining fine detail in highlights and shadows. They allow users to print screens at a higher line ruling than would normally be considered reliable, produce “pin-sharp” images, and help overcome common printing imperfections – such visible rosettes and moiré effects.
