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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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