process capability

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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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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#68: Sustainable Green Printing

February 7, 2008

What is this new and latest buzzword sustainability? If I have offended you by calling it a buzzword I am not apologizing. Please do not misunderstand me; I think sustainability is a good thing. Smart printing businesses have been engaging in most if not all of the components of sustainability for years. The reason is [...]

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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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#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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#44: Why process control works

November 17, 2006

Earlier this month I was visiting a customer who utilizes multiple ColorMetrix licenses to monitor and control; plate making; proofing; and pressroom. Several years ago this customer used ColorMetrix in his plate making operation to uncover a processor replenishment problem that not even the plate vendor was able to unravel. During this visit, he told [...]

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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 itself, [...]

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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 [...]

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