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Developing Standard Operating Procedures, Part 2: The Screen Department
Without consistency in screenmaking, you'll find that your profits also will become intermittent. Learn how to bring repeatability to this crucial prepress function.
Standard Operating Procedures, Part 1
Davis explains how to develop and use standard operating procedures, to help keep your business efficient and profitable.
The Art of Color Communication
The ability to discuss color with clients is a skill that can make jobs run smoothly and profits flow freely. This month, Coudray explains how to fine tune your terminology.
Resolutions for the New Year
Coudray's predictions and tips will help stoke the fires of progress and keep your company competitive.
Controlling Image Resolution for Halftone Output
Coudray explains how to fix customer-supplied image files to achieve the best results possible.
My Personal Prepress Peeves
Here, Coudray highlights several common mistakes that top his list of prepress annoyances.
Capillary Stencil Films for Industrial Screen Printing
Capillary films offer many benefits to industrial screen printers. The following discussion compares stencil films and direct emulsions, weighing the perceived cost advantages of emulsions agains the processing and performance attributes of capillary films.
Halftone-Angle Combinations for nColor Separations
Learn how to work extra color separations into your jobs without creating moiré in your prints.

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Reducing Screen Casualties	Putting Projection Exposure in Focus	Hitting Halftone Targets Through Linearization, Part 2	The Realities of Color Matching