by JimRaffel on September 12, 2007
I could not even bring myself to write about the day it was yesterday. While I know that is disrespectful to those who lost so much and those who made the ultimate sacrifice I just could not do it. In the days and months that followed 9/11/2001 ColorMetrix almost ceased to exist. As most of us remember “the day” fell right at the end of Print ’01 and all the hopes and dreams of many of us got crushed that day along with the twin towers and the pentagon.
For the “idiots” on Michigan Ave last night protesting the day with conspiracy theory sign…I am so happy you live in a country where you can do so. Go to Iran and try the same protest against you own government….idiots, it’s all I can think to say.
Oh, as for GraphExpo…There is really nothing new here this year, but the show traffic and exhibitor excitement are at all times highs since 2001 in this writers opinion. Of course it is 8:47am and I did not leave The Lodge until 3:00am and no the memories are not even vague.
It’s day four, so I have declared “casual Friday” for the show. Stop by the booth check me out in a Tommy Bahama shirt and my cross trainers. Pants you say? You will have to come to the booth to see if I am wearing any!
Quick update on the photo above…one of my three big brothers (Kim) is in New York visiting his daughter and took this picture of Ground Zero yesterday. I found it was in my email inbox just after I made this post.
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by JimRaffel on September 11, 2007
First, yes I was at The Lodge last night (well technically this morning) but my recollections of that part of the evening are vague at best. Epson had a great party right after the show attended by most of the color management community. Next, it was off to the Chromaticity Monday night football party. An excellent event as always. Finally before The Lodge I managed to end up at the ESKOArtwork party at the Excalibur night club. Apparently I am told I had quite a good time dancing with my good friend Shelly Hall (She did tell me there is no way she will get a Brewers tattoo on the other shoulder to match the Cubs tattoo from several years ago).
GraphExpo ’07 is the year of the server from my perspective. As the provider of a server based technology (ProofPass.com), I have been keeping my eyes on other server based offerings at the show. Chromaticity released a new server appliance a the show which can be pre-loaded with several products which all work seamlessly together. First ICS Remote Director can be hosted on the server. Remote Director now has an API which has been integrated into many work flow tools so that a virtual proof is only a mouse click away. The EFI ColorProof client server remote proofing solution can also be hosted on the same server, making the appliance very versatile. Who knows they might even be able to host the ProofPass.com hard copy and virtual proof verification server on the same box!
More to come…..
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