"How Much More Black Can It Be?"

When it comes to Lorraine Press's new Rich Black Ink, the answer is, as Nigel Tufnel would say, "None, none more black."

We are pleased to present an augmented-pigment black ink with no dry back. What your black areas look like when they are fresh off the press is how they will look when they are dry. Our newly available rich black ink is best for larger solid areas, especially those areas that would require a double hit of regular black ink, or a 4-color supported black, to achieve the same result. Its density is greater than a regular black ink or even a 4-color supported black.

Normally on projects with large black areas, we would recommend a double hit of black to the solid areas, or if it was a 4-color job, a support black of 60% cyan, 50% magenta, 50% yellow, and 100% black. This would help the black areas look truly black with regular black ink. However, with our new rich black ink, the extra hit and extra support colors are unnecessary.

Our rich black ink prints grayscale images with an added visual depth to them compared with regular black ink. Another great time to use our rich black ink is when a project with large black areas is printing on an uncoated sheet. And most one-color black projects would benefit from being printed with this rich black ink. However, we would recommend caution when using it with 4-color images, it may muddy them up.

Would you like to know more about Lorraine Press's new rich black ink? Just call us (801-972-5626) or email any questions to info@lorrainepress.com.

A New Website Launched!

Our fantastic Web Development Team has launched a new website. This website is for a set of condos on the San Diego beachfront.

In particular, our web team is pleased with the automated reservation feature that immediately updates the calendar showing all availability of the condos. Here's the link:

http://www.sandiegoonthebeach.com/

Check it out! Please let us know what you think by leaving comments below.

Stochastic Printing for 17 years and counting

A few weeks ago I was talking to a friend in the book publishing business. He had just secured an awesome printer for a book he was working on. He waxed poetic on the fabulous quality that this printer can produce on the illustrations of his book. Naturally, I was interested.

He showed me samples and told me to look closely and I wouldn't see a dot pattern. He said, "It's this great new technology called stochastic printing!"

In his excitement, he then gave me a primer on stochastic printing. I was reluctant to burst his bubble even just a little bit, but I had to tell him that stochastic printing had been around a long time. And I was in a position to know. Lorraine Press has been printing in "awesome" stochastic for almost twenty years!

But he was right to be excited about stochastic printing. We still are! Illustrations and photographs reproduced in stochastic printing can show far more detail than when printed with the conventional screening technique. Below we have two examples of photographs with really small type. The left hand one was printed in stochastic printing here at Lorraine Press, and the right hand one was printed elsewhere in conventional.



They may look similar here (above), but when we put them under our microscope, we saw a huge difference in the tiny type. Below, the left hand photo is the stochastic sample under our microscope, and the right hand photo the conventional sample. The grey box in the stochastic sample (above) is what is enlarged below left.



There is a clear difference! If you would like to know more, you can visit our website, or you can schedule a tour. We would be glad to show you around and explain more about our printing processes. We have worked hard to become known for producing high quality, customized, or difficult pieces, and we’d love to share our experiences with you.

Lorraine Press in September's Printing Impressions

We've been making some big changes here at Lorraine Press, and one of them caught the eye of Printing Impressions. When we changed inks, our scientific approach to print quality helped us keep up our consistent results. We have a passion for measuring every variable possible and collecting data on our processes. And this in turn allows us to match our end product to our proof. You can read more about us in the September issue of Printing Impressions, or you can Click here for the on-line article. Happy reading!

Expert Advice Available Here!

With Labor Day weekend upon us, I was thinking about the labor we at Lorraine Press put into each job we complete. That led to pondering on how long I've been working here. It has been over a decade, and I am still the baby (in terms of seniority) of the Prepress department!

In adding up all the years of experience customers have available to them in each of our departments, Lorraine Press has over 70 years in Prepress, 80 years in the Pressroom, and over 100 years of experience in Bindery. Lorraine Press is teeming with erudite employees who have the expertise to produce quality work. And that expertise is available to you!

We love to give advice! Our sales team (over 120 years experience!) is always at the ready to answer questions, but so too are the Prepress, Press and Bindery departments. Just call us 801-972-5626, or email your print-related knotty problems to info(at)lorrainepress.com and a highly qualified Lorraine Press employee will apply their experience to your questions.