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Industry Meeting Displays Power of Many

March 26, 2010

Earlier this week I attended two days of meetings focused around graphic communications industry specifications, standards and best practices. There is nothing glamorous about this work. Almost 30 of us crammed into a small conference room. Not at a fancy hotel but graciously offered at no cost by Kodak (one of the member companies of [...]

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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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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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#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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#66: How a New Media Writer Breaks Writers Block

November 13, 2007

I am now two and a half years into the Jim Raffel’s Golden Nuggets / JimRaffel.com journey. I have gained a whole new appreciation for those who write on a regular basis and an especially great appreciation for those who write on deadline (I sort of slammed you deadline writers last week, but it’s a [...]

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#52: GRACoL G7 Comments from the field

April 10, 2007

It has been an interesting couple weeks in the field for me. Color experts at four of the largest printing companies in the world have made almost exactly the same comments about the new GRACoL and SWOP data sets, and G7 methodology. I want to stress that the comments that follow are not mine, but [...]

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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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