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Printing is Not Dead or Even Dying

March 8, 2010

If printing is on the verge of death, then why when I searched Twitter for “Is Print Dead“  did I find over 20 tweets in the past 4 hours? For something dead or dying, printing sure generates a lot of conversation in the Twitter community.
The blogosphere also has plenty to say about printing being or not being [...]

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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 decade has [...]

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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. [...]

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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 more [...]

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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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#23: TVI is a better term than Dot Gain

February 7, 2006

This is Part 1 of a 5 part series from Jim Raffel’s TVI notebook.
Part 1: Tone Value Increase (TVI) really is a better term than Dot Gain: My short answer for this is that a densitometer (or spectrophotometer acting as a densitometer) does not actually measure dots, so how can we really call it [...]

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Golden Nugget #5 Density & TVI or L*a*b?

July 13, 2005

This post now appears as Color Conversations: Density & TVI or L*a*b? on Color Conversations the blog of ColorMetrix Technologies, LLC.
*** Introduction ***
Next, I want to let you all know that since the inception of the golden nuggets idea both of the Mikes at ColorMetrix (Michael Litscher-CTO & Co-founder; Michael Woods-Technical Services Manager) have been [...]

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