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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.
Screenmaking:The Gateway to Image Quality
Coudray identifies environmental factors and processing concerns that you need to control in order to produce reliable, high-quality printing screens.

Stretching For Success	Taking Control of Screen Exposure	Rationalizing Screen-Fabric Selection	Densitometry: Your guide to print quality
Choosing Halftone Dot Shape	Calculating a Good Dose of Exposure	Identifying, Understanding, and Controlling Tertiary Moiré	A Functional Family: Personalities of Direct Emulsions