dissector · for print shops
the job, as it arrives
what a dissector print file contains, how it is built, and what to tell your RIP.
01 the print file
one page per ink
a vector PDF, built to be put on a press without a phone call first.
- format
- PDF · vector throughout · no raster
- pages
- one per ink · C, M, Y, K
- modes
- mono (1 ink) · pop (2) · cmyk (4)
- angles
- 15° C · 75° M · 0° Y · 45° K
- ruling
- stated on every page
- ink limit
- 330% · FOGRA39 / ISO Coated v2
- measured as
- tone value sum · ISO 12647-2 · marks excluded
- trap
- 0.15 mm · tone bands and knockouts
- marks
- registration, on every page
- size
- A4 to 4000 mm
- tested at
- 841 mm · 4000 mm
- one job
- TAC 40% mean · 300% max tint · within 330%
- not
- PDF/X · no output intent · no ICC
Every shape in the file is a real curve, and every shape is closed. Marks and margins scale with the sheet, so a four‑metre job arrives with four‑metre marks.
On the phone, the print file lands in a folder of its own, so it can be sent whole: Files → On My iPhone → dissector → print shop. Three exports are free and land there; after those the print file waits inside the app until it is bought, and arrives the moment it is.
02 the rip
not pdf/x, on purpose
why there is no output intent, and what to do instead.
Treat the inks as plain process colour: each page is one plate, screened at the angle written on it. The trim is declared inside the file; the marks sit outside it.
Ink load is held under 330%, measured as tone value sum over screen cells with the marks left out, and every page prints the job’s own figure in its margin. Under a solid line the black is the trade’s rich black — cyan under black, 200% — not four inks at 400%, so the densest place on the sheet is still a place that dries.
If your workflow requires PDF/X, tell us. Send what the RIP said, word for word — the file gets fixed, not the wording.
03 the way in
a plate first
say so, and a test print comes to you before anyone else.
Write to peace@discise.com. The app is dissector; the beta is open on TestFlight.