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March Madness 31 posts in 31 days

March 31, 2010

Thirty-one days ago I set out to write 31 posts in 31 days. This is it, the thirty-first post. Thirty here and one on QuickInternetPages.com (or QIP.com) the blog idea that was created by the 31 posts exercise. Now, I am going to ramble a bit. I learned a lot about me, writing and the [...]

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Measure Your Way To Success

March 18, 2010

A proper measurement methodology is how to gauge success. How can you know where you are going and if you have arrived, when you don’t even know where you are? Want increased sales? Determine an accurate way to measure sales today. Using sound business principals calculate what sales need to be in the future. Then, [...]

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Feature Post: Printing (on paper) vs. Google

February 10, 2010

Authors Note: If you do not work in the printing industry, read this post from the perspective of accepting change in your industry and recognizing who your real competitors are. Your competition is not the printer down the street. Your competition is Google. Right now, they are kicking your butt. The Situation – The last [...]

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Color & The State of Printing Industry 2010

January 1, 2010

Color & The State of the Printing Industry 2010 also appears on the ColorMetrix Color Conversation blog. It never ceases to amaze me how integral color knowledge is to the graphic arts industry at large, yet how few people in the industry really understand the topic. The problem is that color, like the game of [...]

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Hard Work: A Year In the Making

November 30, 2009

Tomorrow morning a press release will announce that ColorMetrix and SpotOn! Press have agreed to work together on a project to provide enhanced interoperability between our two products. There will be lots of flowery prose and 50 cent words in the release so I will spare you the sales talk here. Tonight I will write [...]

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#70: Ink Jet Print for Pay vs. Proofing

September 25, 2008

Not too long ago I attended the IRgA annual conference and continued to see a growing trend I first saw at an ISA show several years ago in Las Vegas. Ink jet printers that many in the traditional graphic arts (commercial and publication printing) have viewed as proofing devices are competing increasingly for commercial print [...]

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EXTREME Color Management Conference Update

September 17, 2008

It has really been too busy to write something each day. I do have some topics rolling around in my head and will write more when I get back to the office. So far it has been a good conference with many excellent speakers. During lunches and other networking opportunities I did pick up a [...]

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EXTREME Color Management Conference

September 14, 2008

New Orleans, LA – As part of ColorMetrix’ sponsorship of the EXTREME Color Management Conference I will be in New Orleans the rest of this week (9/14-9/18). The week is actually comprised of 3 conferences; starting with a G7 Summit all day Monday; then a day and half of EXTREME the second day of which [...]

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Kuler is not cooler – by Michael Jahn

April 28, 2008

Michael Jahn, a JimRaffel.com reader replied to me via email about a previous post and I found his comments enlightening about how scary the world of color has become for those of us in the graphic arts that have to actually print this stuff. So, for the first time ever (I think) a guest contributor [...]

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Virtual Proofing – Oh Boy!

April 17, 2008

I believe virtual proofing is at the same cross roads ink jet proofing was around 2001. I am both hearing and observing information that provides growing support in my own mind for this position. First, I am not going to name any names in this post. Why? Because gut feelings and intuition are not fact. [...]

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