Reply To: Good offset printer

Thanks muzunova, as for me, what can I say I just love design and learning, and keeping up with the latest technologies and helping people out where I can. I have noticed that while someone may be a great designer, when it comes to Press Ready files some have no clue and I enjoy helping out where I can.

As for you question, is that a typo? 0.03pt stroke? If what you typed is correct well anything that small is well kinda useless in my opinion.

I don't believe you will even be able to see it. It most likely creates trap issues for the printer along with registration problems if it's more than just a single solid color (eg: 100% black, cyan, etc…) or even reverse out (white over color).

I don't even know if you could hold that on a digital press it being viewable or registration wise. Our rule of thumb for the longest time was .5pt and above, and for awhile we had to change all “hairline” strokes to .5pt. Of course there are some exceptions where smaller than .5pt are acceptable and now able to do because of press and prepress technologies.

In my opinion I feel they have legitimate concerns of even being able to see it along with being able hold that .03pt stroke while keeping up quality work along with the trap and registration issues it may create. So in my opinion it's fear of being able to see it along with the other points (bad pun lol) I mentioned.

I hope that helps answer your question anything else ask away. But most of all I would love to know why or would even love to see that file as why you would even use .03pt of a stroke.