While attending/exhibiting at GraphExpo this week I was asked by my friends at WhatTheyThink.com to make a short comment on an industry trend.  This video is the result. Also, very soon I will re-read all my TwiterTweets from the show and compile them into a numberbed golden nugget post. … [Read more...]

I have observed an interesting phenomenon in our industry over the last year or so. I have watched the spending of technology dollars shift from new technology purchases to the integration of existing technology in a custom workflow portal. I sense that customers are tired of all the pieces not … [Read more...]

I still host a couple web-sites at dreamhost.com for projects not directly related to my primary business. So, while the sites are not really critical to me they are critical to the businesses they support. It looks like the two sites will be down for the better part of two days. All I can think … [Read more...]

As I have traveled and worked the phones this Summer, many of my regular readers have asked why I have not been posting here.  The answer is pretty simple, here at ColorMetrix in spite of all the gloom and doom reporting in the news media about our economy being so bad we are awfully darn busy.  … [Read more...]

So, I know my normal readers do not come here looking for technology tips.  I am really sharing this one so I can look back in a year or two when this problem hits me again. I am out on the road visiting customers this week and attending an industry conference.  Yesterday I plug my trusty Treo into … [Read more...]

More problems at X-Rite: As a person who makes a living in the color measurement side of our industry I read the following with a bit of distress this morning....X-Rite shares plummet on loan defaults from MLive.com.  According to the article X-Rite is now in default on two of the loan agreements … [Read more...]