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kuler – Another Big Company Reinvents Spelling

April 15, 2008

A while ago I ran across a cool Adobe Labs web application called kuler. I guess it is geared more to the design community, but if you love color (note C O L O R not k u l e r) like I do you will have fun playing around with it. [...]

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X-Rite colormunki

April 14, 2008

More than just a few of you have been asking for my thoughts and comments about the recently announced X-Rite colormunki. Because X-Rite has clearly positioned this device for the Photography and Design markets, for now we at ColorMetrix are taking a wait and see position. Rest assured I have plenty of thought and comments [...]

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#69 IDEAlliance Proofing Summit in Review

March 18, 2008

Recently I attended the IDEAlliance Proofing Summit held in conjunction with the Publishing Business Conference and Expo at the Marriott Marquis in New York City. During the one day summit I managed to take three pages of notes focused on the meeting’s key topic of Virtual Proofing to the Numbers.
During the initial industry panel [...]

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#67 Metamerism: Hard copy vs Monitor

January 16, 2008

The most visited post on JimRaffel.com in 2007 is #16 written October 2005 and addressing metamerism. Because of the popularity of this post I have decided to revisit the topic. I will start with some basic terminology and definitions. Then, I am going to present a real world example we are dealing [...]

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65-2: New Media vs. Old Media at a Trade Show

October 30, 2007

As a member of the new media I would like to thank the SGIA show management for their recognition of the shift that is occurring in the way people gather news and information. While JimRaffel.com is not listed among the 22 most popular blogs in the world we do a pretty good job reaching [...]

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#65: Color in the Specialty Graphic Market & SGIA Live

October 19, 2007

I will be attending the SGIA (Specialty Graphic Imaging Association) conference and expo in Orlando next week. As I reviewed the conference sessions and expo web-site it became clear this would be a great opportunity to get back to writing for JimRaffel.com. Since GraphExpo I have been busy with show follow-up and have [...]

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#61: Get Over Your Measurement Fear

August 22, 2007

Fear lies clearly in the path of all roads to success. In order to succeed at anything in life one must first get past the fear associated with the task. Think back to the days when you were learning to throw and catch a baseball. Throwing was no real problem was it? [...]

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#58: I Still Love the Smell of Ink in the Morning

June 28, 2007

I have been so immersed in virtual proofing over the last several posts, that I had almost forgotten how much I still love the smell of ink in the morning. Last week I had the privilege of spending two days assisting a customer in the set-up of our software primarily for use as a [...]

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#57: On Virtual Proofing Thoughts after IPA

June 20, 2007

While at the IPA Technical Conference earlier this month, I had the opportunity to run through the evaluation of the five virtual proofing systems on display. The combination of the evaluation experience and the release of our ProofPass.com [Virtual] product have solidified my thoughts on virtual proofing at this moment in time.
Virtual proofing will [...]

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#54: Some Thoughts and Comments about Soft Proofing

May 1, 2007

In #53 I listed a bunch of color resources I had found on the web. I was looking because we are putting the finishing touches on the first beta release of our ProofPass.com soft proofing verification module. For me this project has turned out to be about the journey not the destination. [...]

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