Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

fast colour start-ups

English answer:

correct colour balance, intensity, etc. is achieved quickly at the start of a print run

Added to glossary by Charles Davis
Sep 18, 2018 23:01
5 yrs ago
English term

fast colour start-ups

English Tech/Engineering Manufacturing Inks
Listed as one of the lithographic properties of a new heatset ink is "fast colour start-ups".

Thanks a bunch for any help.
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Sep 23, 2018 05:50: Charles Davis Created KOG entry

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JohnMcDove Sep 19, 2018:
Gracias. Entonces, como le digo a Charles, "rápida calibración del color" o "calibración del color para iniciar tiradas con prontitud-rapidez"... creo que daría la idea en español. Al menos, en español, siempre he oído el término "calibrar", en especial en cuatricomías, donde ajustas el flujo del magenta, amarillo, cian y negro (u otras tintas, si se usan más)...
Monica Colangelo (asker) Sep 19, 2018:
@John It is not about a process, but one of the properties of the ink itself. Others listed are high strength, excellent gloss, great transfer, high rub resistance, low-density fluctuation, etc.

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correct colour balance, intensity, etc. is achieved quickly at the start of a print run

"Startup" means the start of an offset litho print run. There is always some waste at startup; it takes a little time for the flow of ink and the balance of ink and water in the various cylinders in the press to reach the optimum state, so the first sheets printed have to be discarded. This ink supposedly has properties that reduce this time, and the consequent waste.

"Printing presses are designed to print the same image page after page on a large number of pages [...] After some number of initial "startup" rotations of the cylinders, the ink flow off of the plate becomes equalized to the ink flow onto the plate, and similarly the ink flow off of the blanket (onto the paper) becomes equalized to the ink from onto the blanket. [...]
The initial sheets which come off of the press are carefully checked by the press operator for registration (i.e. alignment) of each color plane [...] The operator also waits until enough sheets have been printed to achieve ink/water balance and to achieve steady-state ink flow on each of the sets of inking rollers, and then checks the optical density of test patches to verify that the proper amount of ink is being printed."
http://www.imaging.org/site/IST/Resources/Imaging_Tutorials/...

I don't know enough about printing ink to be able to guess why a particular ink may achieve this "steady state" more quickly at startup, but that is apparently what this ink allegedly does.

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(I think the end of the first paragraph of the quotation should probably read: "the ink flow off of the blanket (onto the paper) becomes equalized to the ink FLOW onto the blanket".)

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Hi Mónica. It's not easy to think of a neat way of expressing it in Spanish (English is so economical), but for a marketing text I think that would work well, yes. A literal version would be pretty cumbersome: maybe something like "alcanza rápidamente las características adecuadas del color al inicio de la impresión/tirada", or something like that. I'm trying to think of a way of expressing it with "reduce al mínimo...", but I can't see how to continue.
Note from asker:
Ohhhh, thanks so much Charles. Yes, I associated it with the start of the print run (I've been working for this client for 9 years) but the "fast colour..." property sounded a bit weird. Do you think "características adecuadas del color desde la primera impresión" would work in Spanish?
Thanks again, Charles. Yes, the length of the Spanish version is an issue here :)
Peer comment(s):

agree JohnMcDove : Entonces "[rápida] calibración de los colores" (para un rápido inicio de tirada)... funcionaría en español... Aunque la pregunta es inglesa... ;-)
2 hrs
Podría ser... lo dejo al criterio de Mónica. Gracias, John ;-)
agree Jack Doughty
4 hrs
Thanks, Jack!
agree Tony M
4 hrs
Thanks, Tony :-)
agree Björn Vrooman : Every time my HP printer starts up, there is a system that makes sure the colors aren't dried out, etc. While it's not the same as your answer, the one thing both have in common is that it takes some time until you can actually print.
5 hrs
Yes, it's the same principle. Thanks, Björn!
agree Shekhar Banerjee : It takes care of all the initial needs of the printer to start working properly.
13 hrs
Thanks, Shekhar :-)
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starting process for permanent colours

With no more context than that, I would assume "fast" refers to "permanent" or "lasting".

It seems to refer to a process or set-up for printing of "permanent" ink imprints.

5 (of a dye) not fading in light or when washed.

‘the dyes are boiled with the yarn to produce a fast colour’

indelible, lasting, permanent, stable

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/fast

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/start-up

Good luck!

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Oh, wow!

Okay, Mónica.

If this is simply "a fast, rapid, quick starting of the process" (which is what it seems...) What is your doubt or question?

It would be how you quickly set up your press or your device to be able to establish your colors...

What else do you have in the context you could orient us?
Note from asker:
No, John, "fast" refers to "quick". I spent two hours googling for it and also found "quick colour start-up".
Peer comment(s):

neutral philgoddard : I think fast may mean rapid. Here is the document, or something similar: http://www.universalcolorcorp.com/pages/eg_process.html
17 mins
Wow! :-) Nothing like having a nice context... Thank you Phil.
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