Repro (Pre-Press)

Preparing Your Files For The Press

Colour Control

The essence of printing is to reproduce artwork faithfully across the full print run. ‘Almost right' isn't an option. Which is why we have placed substantial investment into hardware, software and training designed to make the path from monitor, to proofer and onto press as closely controlled and managed as possible. Our presses provide superb colour accuracy and consistency and are calibrated to both inkjet proofers and our monitors. Our benchmark is ICC and ISO 15076, standards which help to ensure we deliver the colour you expect.

Where colour is paramount please make sure you see a calibrated Orphans proof, the closest possible representation of the printed job.

Computer-to-Plate

We operate a Screen computer-to-plate system with the latest processor-less plates (your files are imaged directly onto aluminium plate without the need for chemical processing). Up to the minute RIPping software means the files used to create the plates can be proofed to you as soft proofs via email or as colour accurate inkjets. If you are in a raging hurry we can fire off compositionally correct proofs via our Xerox or Indigo.

In house we have an efficient automated workflow system which ensures that from proof to plate the right people are involved in checking that the various files and proofs are OK to print.

There are various ways to get your files to us aside from ye olde post including email or, if you need to transfer larger files, via ftp transfer.

Orphans Repro Team

Gary Nozedar - Having spent much of his first decade with us in the dark (room), Gary has kept the presses running whilst the processes of print repro have been transformed. A seasoned Mac operator Gary combines setting and planning jobs for the litho presses with helping to run our new Indigo digital press.

Neil Chapman - Like Gary, Neil has a lifetime of experience in setting and planning jobs. He has a very keen eye for detail and a healthy appetite to check proofs and plates for accuracy (its surprising how often this pays dividends before jobs are printed – or perhaps it isn't!).