Is a densitometer useful in QC of newspapers?
NAA Technical White Paper

Newspapers were some of the very first pioneers of CtP equipment decades ago, however with some very prominent exceptions this important section of the industry has not moved as quickly as others to embrace this technology.

Currently many of the CtP machines installed in newspapers are large and relatively expensive which has slowed the take-up of CtP in the UK and the US, however in Belgium and Norway CtP is the norm. Perhaps it is a problem with the English language! It is actually more likely to be due to the age or the press, the cost of labour, the number of plates required, the cost of the output device, the work-flow which is needed to drive it and significantly the current cost of the plates. . . .

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CTP - Why densitometers do not work
TAGA White Paper

Densitometers have been with us in the Graphic Arts industry for many years now.
It has been the one tool available to us that has the ability, though in practice seldom
used, of putting some science into what is still considered by many to be an art
form. Its use for the stable production of film output, and calibration thereof cannot
be ignored. Neither can its use in the pressroom . . .

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