Hi Juris,

My uncalibrated common sense would try this, altough I don’t have direct experience:

- print ICC target

- varnish the target

- create the ICC based on the target

- print as usual but with the iCC_for_varnish setup

We don’t use varnish as we are a digital printer. But we do this when trying to be ultra-precise while using matte lamination foils.

Hope it helps

Zoltan

From: eci-en-bounces@lists.callassoftware.com [mailto:eci-en-bounces@lists.callassoftware.com] On Behalf Of Juris Valdmanis
Sent: 2012. április 3. 10:53
To: eci-en@lists.callassoftware.com
Subject: [ECI-EN] Aqueous Coating and Lab targets

Hello everyone,

We have Speedmaster 102-4-PL press with AxisContorl. There are targets defined in AxisControl to hit ISO standard and it is OK with most of jobs.
Problems are with jobs that has to be varnished with Aqueous Coating. Coating that we use (HI-COAT W2960 Matlak double sided) makes all colors less saturated.
If color bar is also varnished, AxisControl will try to compensate Aqueous Coating "effect" by adding more ink to the sheets. More ink will make high dot gain.

Question is: should we try to hit ISO Lab targets also with Aqueous Coating?
Or maybe we should NOT apply coating to color bar?

regards,
Juris