"He who marches out of step hears another drum." ~ Ken Kesey
The final beauty of knowing what you are getting on press and having your rip compensate for you (across the board on all jobs the same way ) is as you say, "consistent". Imagine a perfect world where your artist only had to create and then can expect to get very close to what they created (without ever having to think ahead) about gain.
Quote from: Dottonedan on August 03, 2016, 11:39:05 PMThe final beauty of knowing what you are getting on press and having your rip compensate for you (across the board on all jobs the same way ) is as you say, "consistent". Imagine a perfect world where your artist only had to create and then can expect to get very close to what they created (without ever having to think ahead) about gain.The rheology of the ink will play into this too...you'd almost need a curve for each garment type, ink, LPI setting, screen mesh, squeegee type and angle, possibly even each emulsion. Something really cool would be a reflective densitiometer of some sort attached to the computer hosting the rip.put a fidicual image on the bottom of each screen (Especially simple 1 color or whatever stuff). read the printed output and then use that to calibrate the rip over time.(you may even have just an image generated.. as a 'calibration' image that the computer knows how to read/process)there would certainly be some fuzzy logic involved, but with the proper programming resource, it could certainly be done.