Influence of Paper and Ink Characteristics On Dot Expansion For dot image printing, although dot expansion is inevitable, how to effectively control dot expansion to make it within the normal specified range is the guarantee to improve the quality of printed matter. Generally speaking, the 50% dot gain value specified in the printing requires that fine products should be < 12% and general products should be < 18%. Influence of Paper and Ink Characteristics On Dot Expansion Once it exceeds this range, there will be quality problems such as printing tone loss, density increase, color change and so on. In the prepress production and printing process, certain compensation will be made for the normal dot increase, but the abnormal dot increase is often irregular. Influence of Paper and Ink Characteristics On Dot Expansion In this way, reasonable compensation can not be made in the prepress production process, but can only be controlled in the printing process. The […]