Imagine spending your Sunday morning catching up on reading Printing across boards posts. Imagine also, that this was the ‚Äúquote of the day‚Äù that popped up on your computer first thing this morning: If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. - A. Maslow You … [Read more...]
#33: Thoughts on GRACoL 7 and Standards in General
Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday of this week I was in Louisville at the FFTA Annual Forum & INFO*FLEX exhibition. It was my first time attending this event and I was impressed. We even got to spend Tuesday evening at the Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom theme park in Louisville. I must say … [Read more...]
On Standards, Dues, and Barriers to Entry
I have been getting a good deal of pressure to post my position on GRACoL G7, and have been holding off for one very simple reason. My comments will "go against the grain" as one fellow blogger put it. As one who was not involved in the process I feel that it would be somewhat counterproductive to … [Read more...]
TVI Notebook (part 2 of 5) GRACoL & TVI
Part 2: GRACoL 7 appears to be taking our pressrooms in a direction where TVI will be significantly less importance in monitoring production run stability. Instead GRACoL 7 is based on maintaining gray balance utilizing density and L*a*b* values. Over all, I feel this is the right direction to go … [Read more...]
#23: TVI is a better term than Dot Gain
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 … [Read more...]
‘05 User’s Group Wrap Up
Well, I did not achieve my goal of a blog post everyday. With all the customers and other trading partners as well as the normal Las Vegas distractions it proved to be an impossible task. So, this post will cover the highlights of our Tuesday morning session: We spent about half the morning … [Read more...]
Golden Nugget #8…Specification, Guideline, or Process Capabilities?
*** Introduction *** If you noticed there was not Golden Nugget last week, it is because I was on vacation. Please remember you can always visit www.JimRaffel.com to review an archive of previous Golden Nuggets. There is still time to register for our User’s Group Conference coming up August … [Read more...]