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 [...]
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Inkjet Innovations
An interview with Memjet´s Jeff Bean on their groundbreaking inkjet technology and their Drupa plans.
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Optimizing your color workflow
Where are the opportunities to fine-tune your color workflow? I recently had a conversation with Karl Koch, CEO of basICColor GmbH, about several areas of optimization: Monitor calibration, soft proofing and better ICC profiles.
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ICC: Next generation color management
Almost everyone that works with color management utilizes ICC-based technology in some way or another. The ICC consortium was founded in 1993 by eight industry vendors, but now have a much larger membership. Currently the ICC is working on the “next generation” ICC system. This will surely be backwards compatible with the V2 and V4 [...]
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The state of Computer-to-Plate
Prepress consultant Michael Mittelhaus has followed the market for Computer-to-Plate devices, as well as plates and workflow systems, for years. He consults with printers and publishes in-depth research in reports like his most recent “The Chinese Are Coming! Will suppliers from the Far East take over the market for offset plates?”. I catched [...]
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ISO 12647-2 revisions planned
The technical committee responsible for the graphic arts standards in the ISO organization (TC130) recently met in Sao Paulo, Brazil to work on new standards and changes to existing ones. Among the discussed standards was ISO 12647-2, the offset printing standard familiar to many readers of this blog. To hear what changes we can [...]
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Interview with ColorLogic – the device link specialists
Device Link ICC technology has become part of the color management mainstream due to the popularity of ink saving solutions for offset printing, but there’s also a big potential in other areas. DVL technology can be applied in prepress workflows for better RGB-to-CMYK conversions. There is also a need for both ink optimization and fine-tuning of conversions in digital printing. I recently had the opportunity to discuss these issues with Dietmar Fuchs, product manager for the German color management developers ColorLogic GmbH.
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