by JimRaffel on August 25, 2005
Well, I did not achieve my goal of a blog post everyday. With all the customers and other trading partners as well as the normal Las Vegas distractions it proved to be an impossible task. So, this post will cover the highlights of our Tuesday morning session:
- We spent about half the morning discussing and showing how to create reference values and tolerance ranges to be used with primarily ColorMetrix. There are a variety of options, and I expressed my overall preference for a greater reliance on process capabilities. This is because proper use of process capabilities will lead to higher quality output at an overall lower cost. Obviously customer specifications can’t be ignored, but instead a way should be found to make sure that customer specifications falls within the process capabilities.
- The balance of the morning was spent on reviewing best practices for press finger printing. From my point of view this was a great session, because of all the user input from the room. Many felt the highlight was reviewing a method of press characterization utilizing grey balance numbers measured with a simple densitometer, and our retired GATF Hexagon software. This technique worked 6 years ago, and now looks similar to what GRACoL is proposing.
- Check my links section to the right on this page. There are many good resources represented. I utilized many of these links to prepare for the User’s Group Conference.
In closing, a good time was had by all. Our plans at this point are to return to the Mirage is late September or early October next year for our 6th annual User’s Group Conference. Based upon user comments and busy schedules we will be compressing the meeting to a shorter format.
I extend a personal thank you to all who took time out of very busy schedules to attend.
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by JimRaffel on August 22, 2005
I will start by saying too much has happened in the last day and a half to write about in a blog entry, so I will stick to the highlights here.
- Mirage is a much nicer place to host a meeting than TI. The meeting rooms we have are awesome, and the food and food service personal are top notch.
- Jerry Huffman provide an excellent keynote address last night. He shared AbsoluteProof’s overall success with GcX, and specifially success with EMI.
- The Sunday night reception was once again a excellent networking opportunity, and a big hit with all attendees
- Today (Monday) was a long a content filled day, and it has been every year. (It probably would have seemed to be a shorter day if my wife and assistant (Terra) had not “made” me stay out until 1:00am. )
- Michael Woods and I presented a start to finish tutorial on using GcX. Without Son Do’s “questions” it would have been a boring session…
- Jerry Huffman provided a detailed review of how GcX has been a piece of the enabling technology that allow them to sell sub-$5000 remote proofing solutions.
- Howard Nelson (ASH) provided insight into evaluation of the Box Plot utilized in GcX for process control. He also provided a hands on tutorial and some sample excel sheets that allow in depth analysis of data collected by GcX.
- I shared some more in depth perspective on the two Golden Nugget topics the group asked for more information on; density & TVI vs. L*a*b*; and UV vs non-UV filtered instruments. (I learned something here when a potential client shared some data with me….I may be crossing back over to the other camp depending upon follow-up on this information. )
- The best part of any User’s Group is when the User’s share. Jeff Ross from Bemis shared real world experience with GcX. David Piccus also told us what happens in shops he helps who have no process control.
More to come tomorrow.
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