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Mechanical Requirements
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Please contact Bill Marzahn at (716) 849-4157 or Rick Nogle at (716) 849-5456 in our prepress department with further questions regarding negatives. |
Standard size page: 10.875” x 20” • 6 columns per page • 20” per column • 120” per page
Standard size double truck: 22.75” x 20” (including gutter)
Tabloid column width is same as regular ROP
Tabloid page: 9.046” x 10.875” • 5 columns per page
Tabloid double truck: 219.5” x 10.875”
Please keep the following information in mind when preparing black & white ads for publication in The News.
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SCREEN RULING:
100 lines per inch • Round dot
 FULL- PAGE NEGATIVES:
Right-reading emulsion side up
NEGATIVES LESS THAN
A FULL- PAGE:
Right-reading emulsion side down
Highlight placement: 2%
Midtone placement: 43%
Shadow placement: 96%
Black & white dot gain is 19%.
Color dot gain is 24%.
The Buffalo News is a web offset operation
.Minimum screen tint that will reproduce is 10%; any tint over 90% will print as a solid. Avoid reverse type under 12 pts. Avoid placing type in a screened area over 30%.
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The specifications for black & white halftones on KBA offset presses, using Agfa N91 printing plates are as follows:
- The advertising image area for broadsheet is 10.874” x 20”.
- A 100-line screen with a round dot is preferred. Resolution should be at least 170 ppi.
- The Agfa printing plates will hold a 2% highlight dot and an 96% shadow dot. A higher percentage in the shadow, over 90%, will print solid.
- Positive material should have a hard-edged photographic
dot. A soft-edged or ragged dot will print at less-than-optimum quality. Ink-jet and laser printer halftones will not reproduce with acceptable quality.
- Negatives supplied to The News should be right-reading, emulsion up for full-page ads. Negatives for ads other than full page should be right-reading,
emulsion down. All negatives must have a background density of no less than 4.0. All negatives
will be copydot scanned for pagination.
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