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63-2GE Live: The Year of the Server

September 11, 2007 By Jim Raffel Leave a Comment

First, yes I was at The Lodge last night (well technically this morning) but my recollections of that part of the evening are vague at best. Epson had a great party right after the show attended by most of the color management community. Next, it was off to the Chromaticity Monday night football … [Read more...]

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63-1 GE Live: This Is Not Your Father’s GCR

September 10, 2007 By Jim Raffel Leave a Comment

A growing new software category: I ran into my friend John Sweeney who is now the Director of Business Development for IQ Colour.  John gave the 60-second sales pitch as only he can do, and the bullet points which follow sum it it pretty well; Key is controls moving upstream autmated, color … [Read more...]

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#63: GraphExpo Expectations

September 4, 2007 By Jim Raffel 1 Comment

GraphExpo Coverage: I want to let my readers know that starting September 9th I plan to blog live each day from the GraphExpo show floor (or my hotel room at 2am). This is a similar format to the IPA coverage I did back in May. Because I do not want to fill up your email inboxes, the posts will be … [Read more...]

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#62: Set Your Color Measurement Goals

August 29, 2007 By Jim Raffel Leave a Comment

Everything meaningful in life starts with a goal. So, what are the goals you have set for your color measurement system? If you have not set a color measurement goal yet, here are a few good ones to pick from; Reduce inkjet proof remakes by 50% Reduce color variation by 25% (yes, this can be … [Read more...]

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#61: Get Over Your Measurement Fear

August 22, 2007 By Jim Raffel Leave a Comment

Fear lies clearly in the path of all roads to success. In order to succeed at anything in life one must first get past the fear associated with the task. Think back to the days when you were learning to throw and catch a baseball. Throwing was no real problem was it? No fear there. Now think … [Read more...]

Filed Under: color, measurement

#60: 3 P’s for Measurement Success

August 8, 2007 By Jim Raffel 1 Comment

When I last had time to write a Golden Nugget, it was about have a passion for what you do (#59). I picked that subject because the release of our ProofPass.com [Virtual] technology has reinvigorated my own passion for what I do. This re-found passion has kept me on the road about 70% of the time … [Read more...]

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#59: Success: A Passion for What You Do

July 16, 2007 By Jim Raffel Leave a Comment

I Love the Smell of Ink in the Morning Last installment I wrote about still loving the smell of ink in the morning. The magic of blank substrate going in one end of an imaging device and coming out the other end as an item of significantly greater value than the blank substrate still captivates … [Read more...]

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#58: I Still Love the Smell of Ink in the Morning

June 28, 2007 By Jim Raffel Leave a Comment

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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: calibration, color, color bars, density, measurement, press run, process capability

#57: On Virtual Proofing Thoughts after IPA

June 20, 2007 By Jim Raffel 1 Comment

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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: blogging, color, conferences, monitors, proofing

56-4: Tuesday IPA Observations

June 7, 2007 By Jim Raffel Leave a Comment

The Expo: One of HELIOS Software GmbH’s core tenants is that they run on almost any platform, so they coded it to run on a Playstation 3 that is on display in their booth at the show. I also found the Gencia Creator technology which is being combined with Kodak Approval proofs to be quite … [Read more...]

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