Datacolor Webinars

Datacolor hosts a series of webinars in April and May on color management in industrial production workflows:

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Why write a book on offset printing?

By: Rolf Hansson My career in the graphical production area started in a book bindery. That was a good place for learning how to handle paper and how it behaves. After some years I changed to printing. That was a tricky job! The utmost challenge was how to avoid tinting and scumming. When I now [...]

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SpectroIL inline measurement [Video]

At Drupa 2012, Color Key Pro was one of the companies showing interesting new solutions. Their press console software was originally developed in-house at an sheetfed offset plant. The Color Key Pro software is a third-party solution for ink key presetting, density adjustments during the print run etc. At Drupa they also showed their first [...]

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Controlled Process out in hardcover

Finally, the hardcover edition of “Offset Printing – Controlled Process” is now in print.

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Updating to OS X 10.8?

If you are responsible for maintaining Macs in a production environment, it might be wise to take your time and do proper testing before rolling out OS X 10.8 and Adobe Creative Suite 6.

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X-Rite looks forward

X-Rite has announced new partnerships and acquisitions in the field of “digital appearance”, which contains not only on-screen color simulations but more complex rendering of structures and materials.

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X-Rite eXact [Video]

eXact is the new pressroom spectrophotometer from X-Rite and the successor to the 530 and SpectroEye product lines. This video gives a quick overview of the hardware and some of X-Rite’s own companion software:

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ChromaQA [Video]

ChromaQA is Techkon USA’s online quality control tool for printers and print buyers in the digital and flexographic packaging market:

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Mountain Lion & Color

Mac OS X 10.8 seems to be a more incremental update than 10.7. It is still a good idea to check compatibility for your production software before upgrading.

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Controlled Process out now

The first book from Optirep is ready for order now. Offset Printing – Controlled Process is a one-of-a-kind handbook on the offset printing process.

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Production Suite [Video]

A GMG user talks about their inkjet and wide-format Production Suite. This is the technology GMG got from acquiring Aurelon, makers of the ProofMaster and PerfectProof technologies.

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Bad profiles [Video]

Another great video for ColorThink users – how you can use ColorThink to troubleshoot “bad” printer profiles:

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Mellow Colour at Drupa

Mellow Colour releases two new color products at Drupa: the remote print approval system ImpressionProof, and the entry-level pressroom scanner RabbitScanner.

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Fogra 48, 49 & 50

Fogra and ECI has released three new reference characterization data sets, and three new ICC profiles based on these.

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i1Pro 2 [Video]

New promo video from X-Rite showing the details of the new i1Pro 2 spectrophotometer:  

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Video Color Workflow

Short video from Hallmark Institute of Photography on how they use Color Checkers to do color adjustments in Final Cut Pro:

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Color Management News Roundup

A quick look at the recent news from X-Rite, BabelColor and ColorLogic: Danaher buys X-Rite

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Esko Color Engine [Video]

Color Engine is the central hub for working with spot and brand colors in an Esko workflow. 

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TECHKON iRegister for iPhone

With TECHKON’s new iRegister app, an iPhone can be used to check register on press. This is an easy to use, and cheaper, alternative to dedicated register measurement instruments such as the discontinued TECHKON RMS 910.

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Improved SpectroDens

TECHKON will show an improved version of their SpectroDens instrument at Drupa, with new optics and a full color display.

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