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 … [Read more...]
#40 Grey Balance & Printing like a Master
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 … [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...]
Golden Nugget #5 Density & TVI or L*a*b?
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 … [Read more...]