What is happening in the packaging and branding world: News from IDEAlliance, Pantone, CGS and GMG.
ColorThink Tips & Tricks
Chromix have just started a series of videos, showing useful tips and tricks for their ColorThink utility software. The first installment details how to use ColorThink to check and evaluate a printer linearization. Future videos will be posted both on YouTube and Chromix’ own ColorWiki.
Read full story · Comments are closed
Digital Press Certifications
If you are on the market for a digital press, there is a wide range of devices and front-ends to choose between. One starting point for getting the best possible output quality within your budget and price range, is to evaluate engines that has achieved an independent third-party quality certification. IDEAlliance has provided such certifications [...]
Read full story · Comments are closed
It’s all about UV
Ultraviolet light has become a bigger issue in color management for print lately. At the G7 Forum and Tech Conference hosted by IDEAlliance in Chicago this week, many of the discussions involved the issues of UV light and optical brighteners. There are two main reasons for this: The light tubes we use in viewing booths [...]
Read full story · Comments are closed
Spyder4 Introduction
Datacolor is now shipping their new Spyder4 monitor calibrator. This video gives an in-depth introduction to the 7-filter sensor, and the new features in the Spyder software.
Read full story · Comments are closed
FAQ: What is colorimetric TVI?
When you evaluate or troubleshoot print, some measurement of the gradation is used across all print technologies. Whether you measure dot gain, traditional print contrast, G7-style contrast or the density of tints, it is all a measure of how open or closed the dots are. High dot gain or low print contrast means dark images [...]
Read full story · Comments are closed
Inkjet Innovations
An interview with Memjet´s Jeff Bean on their groundbreaking inkjet technology and their Drupa plans.
Read full story · Comments are closed
Techkon SpectroEdge [Video]
A new video from Techkon USA showing the capabilities of the SpectroEdge inline instrument, suited for both digital and flexographic presses.
Read full story · Comments are closed
FAQ: What is a LUT profile?
In color management the terms LUT is used for two completely different types of color profiles, ICC profiles for graphic arts or non-ICC profiles for motion graphics and video.
Read full story · Comments are closed
How-to: Profile Epson R800 [Video]
Datacolor has posted an instructional step-by-step video on how to calibrate an Epson R800 desktop inkjet printer with the Spyder3Print package.
Read full story · Comments are closed
News Roundup: Premedia
Recent color management news for premedia:
Read full story · Comments are closed
News Roundup: Brand Color Management
Some short news and links on quality in the packaging world:
Read full story · Comments are closed
Heidelberg at DRUPA
The print industry is gearing up to the massive DRUPA trade show in Germany in May. Heidelberg has announced the themes and ideas their show presence is built upon. Quality management and overall efficiency is a big part of this.
Read full story · Comments are closed
First part of Altona Test Suite 2.0 released
The Altona Test Suite is a well-known set of test forms (PDF documents and hard prints) for checking the color management and PDF/X handling of your workflow. The suite is being upgraded to version 2.0, and the first released part is Technical Page 2. This test page is suited for checking font and transparency handling [...]
Read full story · Comments are closed
Working with abstract ICC profiles
Abstract profiles are a special class of ICC profiles that are seldom used in production workflows. They could not be used in Adobe Photoshop before CS4, and most users are not even aware they are available – or what for. If you have ventured into the advanced Convert with Profile dialog in Photoshop on a [...]
Read full story · Comments are closed
FAQ: Device Link profiles
What can I use Device Link ICC profiles for? A normal ICC profile will convert all colors from a source color space to the destination space through a PCS – Profile Connection Space. This intermediary connection space is usually CIELAB, and in some cases CIEXYZ. Device Link profiles does not use the PCS, but goes [...]
Read full story · Comments are closed
ColorChecker Passport [Video]
In-depth instructional video from AdoramaTV on how to use the X-Rite ColorChecker Passport.
Read full story · Comments are closed
New Self-Calibrating Eizo [Video]
Last year Eizo released the CG245W monitor with a built-in calibrator. This year the same functionality came to a bigger monitor, the 27-inch CG275W.
Read full story · Comments are closed
Controlling an offset press
By: Rolf Hansson There are several sources of variation in the printing process such as mechanical wear, press settings, properties of blankets and rollers, heat release during production, pollution of the dampening water and differences in paper properties.
Read full story · Comments are closed
Prinect Inpress Control [Video]
“The first printing press that sees everything”, says Heidelberg about the latest version of Prinect Inpress Control.
Read full story · Comments are closed
