Method for efficient fan-out control

A method for a printing process with fan-out control for minimizing register deviations by using a computer, the method comprising the following steps:

• printing a test print of a layout including different color separations;
• measuring the register deviations that have occurred relative to a reference color;
• using the computer for calculating an absolute total of the register deviations of all color separations in a transverse direction and a circumferential direction relative to one another;
• using the computer for selecting a color separation to be adapted having the greatest deviation of the calculated absolute total of the register deviations of all color separations relative to one another;
• using the computer for calculating a total deviation, from transverse direction values and circumferential direction values, for every color;
• using the computer for adapting the selected color separation;
• compensating for the register deviations that have occurred by creating and using at least one printing plate for the adapted color separation;
• and
• executing the printing process by using the created at least one printing plate.

A method for a printing process with fan-out control for minimizing register deviations by using a computer, the method comprising the following steps:

• printing a test print of a layout including different color separations;
• measuring the register deviations that have occurred relative to a reference color;
• using the computer for calculating an absolute total of the register deviations of all color separations in a transverse direction and a circumferential direction relative to one another;
• using the computer for calculating a total deviation, from transverse direction values and circumferential direction values, for every color;
• using the computer for selecting at least one color separation to be adapted as a function of the calculated absolute total of the register deviations of all color separations;
• using the computer for implementing the adaptation of the selected at least one color separation by calculating a register deviation based on a difference of the register deviations of the at least one color separation and a mean value of all other color separations;
• using the computer for adapting the at least one selected color separation;
• compensating for the register deviations that have occurred by creating and using at least one printing plate for the adapted at least one color separation;
• and
• executing the printing process by using the created at least one printing plate.