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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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#37: Monitoring Digital Presses

August 9, 2006

At ColorMetrix we have some new and potential new customers who will be using our products (both ColorMetrix and ProofPass.com) to monitor and control digital presses like the HP Indigo, Xerox 8000, and NexPress. During our sales presentations most of these folks have expressed concern that the device is constantly self calibrating and correcting [...]

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#32: Tales from the Press Trial (Part 2)

April 28, 2006

This week I will be providing more information about the MacDermid Printing Solutions Stabil-X press trial April 17th and 18th . This week I will review the variation data from two of the trial conditions:

STX opt – Stabil-X blanket run at optimum packing level
Press std – The set-up of the press when we arrived

The TVI [...]

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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 the [...]

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I still love the smell of ink in the morning

April 19, 2006

Over the coming weeks I will be writing a great deal about my last two days in Chicago. Kevin Kocher of MacDermid Printing Solutions (offset blanket manufacturer) invited me to a press trial of their new Stabil-X blanket. So, right about now if I was one of my readers I would be thinking how exciting [...]

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Golden Nugget #15 Which Instrument Should I Use?

October 18, 2005

I am often asked by customers one of two questions; 1. Which instrument that I already own should I use with my Colormetrix product; 2. Which instrument should I purchase to use with my ColorMetrix product? While my good friends who work for brand X and brand G will tell you the answer is simple [...]

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Golden Nugget #7…Ink Jet Proofing Dry Time Prior to Measurement

July 27, 2005

*** User’s Group Conference News ***

Even though the date to receive our guaranteed pricing on rooms at the Mirage has passed it is not too late to attend the 2005 user’s group conference. If you are still interested in attending, we may be able to assist attendees in getting our hotel rates ($129/night for Sun, [...]

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Golden Nugget #6…Why Measure?

July 19, 2005

*** Introduction ***

In the last several weeks several readers have mentioned that they are forwarding these e-mails to others. That is perfectly fine, but anyone can get on the list by sending me their complete contact information.

*** Jim Raffel’s Week 6 Golden Nugget…Why Measure ***

Over the years I have gotten the comment that ColorMetrix does [...]

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Golden Nugget #3 / Urgent ColorMetrix User’s Group Info

July 9, 2005

Because of the upcoming ColorMetrix User’s Group Conference, we needed to change the e-mail around a bit this week. In order to not send multiple e-mails to many of you on this list, I will first address urgent issues regarding the User’s Group Conference August 21-23 at the Mirage Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, [...]

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Golden Nugget #2…Consistent Measurement Environment

July 9, 2005

If you are joining us for the first time, here is what the golden nuggets are all about. At ColorMetrix we spend a great deal of our business life on the road. We have come to realize that we take one golden nugget away from almost every stop we make on the road.

So, the purpose [...]

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