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Struggling with Color Management

Saturday, October 31st, 2009

Professor Bob Chung of RIT's School of Print Media contacted WhatTheyThink about our recent interview with Elie Khoury of Alwan on our industry's continued struggle with color management. Bob says, "I find Elie Khoury's interview both informative and thought-provoking. There were many observations made by Elie on why color management is ...

Gray Balance as a Pressroom Metric

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

Gordon Pritchard, Kodak's Value In Print Initiative Marketing Manager has a blog post up on Grow Your Biz in which he outlines 11 items to consider when using gray balance as a press control: Achieving gray balance in presswork is the major mantra in today's print production world. It is the ...

VIGC Study on Spectrophotometers

Friday, September 12th, 2008

The Flemish Innovation Centre for Graphical Communication (VIGC) has released a study on the accuracy of spectrophotometers used within the printing industry. “Color quality is the biggest challenge in the printing industry.”, says Eddy Hagen, managing director and trend watcher of VIGC. “Graphic arts companies will try everything to get the ...

X-Rite and Pantone Launch ColorMunki

Monday, March 17th, 2008

History has proven that you can count on Pantone for interesting and innovative product announcements. This one is no different, starting with its name, ColorMunki. I spent an interesting and informative hour on a web conference last week with Doris Brown, VP of Marketing at Pantone, who kindly ...

Analyzing the Future of Press Controls

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

Andrew Tribute commented on Advanced Vision Technologies purchase of Graphic Microsystems Inc in today's eXpert Row Commentary and speculates on the future of press quality control tools: Neither AVT nor GMI have much presence in the sheet fed offset market. In this the standard for color management and control has long ...

X-Rite to Acquire Pantone

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007

X-Rite a provider of color management solutions has announced plans to acquire Pantone for $180 million. The deal is expected to close later this year, subject to regulatory approvals. Once the deal is closed, Pantone will operate as business unit within X-Rite. After X-Rite acquired Amazys Holding AG, the parent company ...

The Little “Secret” of Process Color at Press: Printing to Gray Balance

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007

Here's a printing lesson we found so helpful that we're posting it in full even though it's a bit longer than usual for a blog entry. Entitled Printing to Gray Balance,it was written and submitted to PrintCEOBlog.com by Dan Remaley, Senior Technical Consultant in Process Controls for PIA/GATF. He invites ...