Mark/Trèce is committed to using the latest prepress systems and technologies to help our customers achieve the highest possible level of print quality. We utilize the complete suite of PCC software designed specifically for flexographic requirements. We offer customized step and repeat, vector and pixel-based trapping solutions, and offer large format film output (40 x 50").

We accept files from the Macintosh and PC-compatible platforms and have import capabilities for many proprietary prepress systems.

Mark/Trèce's seven locations are networked using a VPN via High-Speed Internet connections to ensure that all our resources are available whenever you require them.

PRESS CHARACTERIZATION AND DIGITAL PROOFING

We are committed to offering our customers the best in print prediction capability. To that end, we offer DuPont Color Management and proofing. Density-based fingerprinting is now replaced by precise measurement of the color gamut which your press is capable of reproducing, taking into account substrates, ink color, trapping issues, and press gains. This information is integrated into a profile which allows our proofer to show how your job will print with a level of precision previously not available.

We also offer a full line of analog proofing options including overlay and laminate proofs, and large format plotter and inkjet proofs.

FLEXOCAL IMAGESETTER CALIBRATION & HYBRID SCREENING

Mark/Trèce was among the first in the flexographic industry to offer PCC Flexocal Imagesetter Calibration technology and Hybrid Screening. Together, these techniques allow you to print with a degree of quality often thought reserved solely for non-flexo print technologies.

FLEXOCAL NON-LINEAR IMAGESETTER CALIBRATION

This technology allows us to produce film and plates with a smoother, rounder, better plating dot. Plates produced in this manner can hold much smaller minimum dots, gain less, and achieve more saturated color. Flexo image cutback is applied in the imagesetter calibration, preventing the "grey-level loss" that plagues conventional flexo prepress technologies. The grey level loss is responsible for banding and lack of detail in the highlight range of the image. Ask your Mark/Trèce sales representative how FlexoCal, combined with CIELab press characterization, can bring your printing to a whole new level of quality.

HYBRID SCREENING

Have you been forced to accept "highlight break" as a necessary evil of flexographic printing? The excessive highlight gain and minimum dot "requirements" have long been considered an insurmountable obstacle in the path of high-quality flexographic work. Some users turned to stochastic screening to combat this problem, but found that stochastic had problems of it's own - excessive dot gain, grainy reproduction.

Hybrid Screening combines the best of stochastic and traditional screening by creating a smooth transition between stochastic highlight dots and conventional screening through the rest of the print range. You can now print highlights which truly fade to zero, and have precise control over subtle pastels and shadings previously near-impossible to achieve in print production.

COLOR SEPARATIONS

The flexographic print environment offers challenges to achieving image fidelity not encountered in offset printing. That's why we offer drum scanned color separations customized to your print conditions. We're committed to offering the latest in color management technologies, allowing us to integrate your press conditions in our scanning, proofing and softproofing workflow. The result is printed images which are precisely matched to the gamut of your press.