Mark A. Coudray

Recent Stories

Using Prepress as a Foundation for Total Quality Management
Want to streamline the accuracy, efficiency, and profitability of the screen-printing process? Start by loading quality control into your prepress procedures in order to eliminate variables further downstream in production.
Reducing Dot Gain and Improving Tone Range Through Posterization
Coudray presents a helpful technique for maximizing tone range, print contrast, and image detail in your prints.
Film Positives and Accurate Image Translation
Coudray examine the different types of imagesetters and offers advice for getting consistent, high-quality output.
Regaining Control of Prepress
Learn how to avoid substandard artwork so that your customers stay satisfied and your reputation and profitability remain intact.
Choosing Halftone Line Counts For Textile Applications
Find out how to improve image quality and durability by limiting the halftone line counts you print on garments.
JPEG File Repair
Tired of spending hours trying to clean up low-quality JPEG files so that they're suitable for separating and printing?
Preparing Digital Files for Screen Printing
Learn how to make other types of artwork fit the screen-printing mold.
Maintaining Dot Predictability
Coudray discusses the concept of linearization and explains how to apply it in digital prepress.

The Realities of Implementing Computer-to-Screen Imaging	Creating Underbases and Detail-White Printers	Assessing and Controlling Textile Dot Gain	Tuning Your Print Procedures for a Color-Managed Workflow
Tuning Your Print Procedures for a Color-Managed Workflow, Part 2	Describing, Specifying, and Using Digital Digital Color Space	Hitting Halftone Targets Through Linearization, Part 2	The Realities of Color Matching

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