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CHAPTER 2
– Measurement functions
Slur and Doubling
With the measurement function
Slur and Doubling
printing deficiencies, caused by
inexact, geometrical transfer of the image from the plate to the paper can by evalu-
ated.
Slurring means that the printed dot deforms from the transfer of the printing plate to
the rubber blanket or from the rubber blanket to the paper. The effect of doubling will
be present when a printed dot is transferred a second time with less intensity geo-
metrically slightly offset. This ghost image is caused by ink being re-transferred to the
rubber blanket which should have stayed completely on the printed paper.
To make the slur and doubling measurement possible, it is necessary to have on the
color bar vertical and horizontal lined patches with identical line thickness as it is the
case with the print control strip TECHKON TCS.
Three measurements have to be carried out:
1. The first measurement on the solid patch;
in this case of Magenta.
2. The second measurement on the horizon-
tal lined patch of the same process color.
After the measurement of the horizontal lined
patch the dot area of the patch is calculated
and stored (see the following figure).
K
C
K
C
M
Y BAL
M+Y
S/D
1.
K
C
K
C
M
Y BAL
M+Y
S/D
2.
