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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 pressroom [...]

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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. Of course the [...]

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#51: Proper Press Fingerprinting takes Commitment

March 21, 2007

In this installment we will address the third question Dale raised in #47. Dale’s first two questions got answered in #48 and #49 which can be reviewed at JimRaffel.com. Now, onto Dale’s third question: 3. In fingerprinting our presses, we’ve run up against the dreaded “Hurry up and do it, but don’t put too much [...]

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#48: Make Proofs That Match Your Press

February 16, 2007

Since #45 in December we have been discussing resolutions to improve the quality of your proofs. In order to gain the full benefit of this installment one should have read and implemented the suggestions in #46 & #47. Proceeding forward it does not matter if you are utilizing a methodology like GRACoL G7, or a [...]

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#40 Grey Balance & Printing like a Master

October 5, 2006

I have written before about the Printing across borders initiative and late last week made a post to the mail list which I feel generated a very good response. My post shown below was in response to a post questioning the GRACoL MasterPrinter‚Ñ¢ program: It stands to reason that that a printer with tight control [...]

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#38: Enterprise Color

August 22, 2006

We have been spending a great deal of our time this summer selling and supporting our new ProofPass.com servers. The increased interest in our server technology has promoted us to think about how the servers are being utilized, and why they are being purchased. We believe one answer is enterprise color. Enterprise color involves setting [...]

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#31 Tales from the Press Trial

April 21, 2006

On April 17th and 18th I had the pleasure of participating in a press trial with MacDermid Printing Solutions to evaluate the effectiveness of their new Stabil-X offset printing blanket. I am writing today about the TVI curve of the various trial conditions. We ran five different conditions during the course of the trial. All [...]

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#21: The Reality of Remote Color Diagnostics

December 15, 2005

*** Golden Nugget #21: The Reality of Remote Color Diagnostics *** While at the PIA/GATF Color Management Conference earlier this month I had a chance to visit with a customer who uses our new ProofPass.com proof certification and remote color diagnostics solution. Our customer is responsible for the operations of a large pre-press facility and [...]

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#16 Matamerism & Color Management

October 26, 2005

This post has be revised and reposted at ColorMetrix[dot]com as Color Conversations: Metamerism & Color Management. There was a good comment in response to “Golden Nugget #15 Which Instrument Should I Use?” Adam made the following comment: “This is because some spectrophotometers are built with spectral response every 20 nanometers while others respond every 10 [...]

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