COLOR/QUALITY CONTROL
Color and quality control starts with color management in prepress, ICC profiles, press fingerprinting
and adoption of tools such as G7 and increasingly involves in-line inspection on the press and
binding lines with the intent of creating closed-loop systems for printing process control.
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Color Measurement on Metalized Substrates
Printing on metalized or “mirror-like” substrates is becoming increasingly popular. This article looks at instruments that are best suited to...
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Ensuring Excellence - G7 Helps a NJ Printer Maintain Color Consistency
Edison Lithographing & Printing Corp. (North Bergen, NJ), founded over 50 years ago, has built its reputation on doing more... -
Best Practices in Color Management Yield Best Results
Color management (CM) commonly refers to the methods employed to ensure quality reproduction of four-color process printing. From the perspective... -
West Press : Mastering Each Process
West Press is a one-stop shop offering graphic design, database/list management, printed marketing collateral, training manuals with instructional CDs or... -
Digital and Offset Printing : Seeking Workflow Oneness
The workflow concept is being extended even further to achieve a continuum of production capabilities that can span from digital...
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Walsworth Publishing — Integrating the Enterprise
WHEN WALSWORTH Publishing set out to find software that would modernize its system and increase the consistency of its printing... -
On the Leading Edge… or Behind the Curve?
Are you sure you’re doing all you can to gain and maintain your competitive advantage? The German Institute for Standardization...
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Color/Quality Control LinkedIn Groups
The following LinkedIn groups provide opportunities to connect with other graphic arts professionals who use or offer Color/Quality Control solutions:...
More On Color/Quality Control
Walsworth Publishing — Integrating the Enterprise
August 2009
WHEN WALSWORTH Publishing set out to find software that would modernize its system and increase the consistency of its printing processes—without eating into its bottom...
On the Leading Edge… or Behind the Curve?
August 1, 2009Are you sure you’re doing all you can to gain and maintain your competitive advantage? The German Institute for Standardization (DIN) commissioned a research study...
Offset and Beyond — Great Technologies, But Tough Times
April 2009When it comes to forecasting the current sheetfed and web offset markets, the biggest threat isn’t just digital technology, it’s the state of the economy....
Process Optimization — Makereadies Mean Money
March 2008PRINT RUNS are getting shorter. Everyone in the industry now takes that as a given, but what does it mean? Is a short run in...
Ten Ways to Improve Color Management
March 2008THE PRIMARY goal of color management is to reproduce consistent, predictable and repeatable color across a range of devices, such as scanners, digital cameras, monitors,...
Technological Developments — More Changes Reshaping the Industry
January 2008Print has become a digital-centric process with software, the glue that controls and holds the diverse elements of print production together. As traditional printing processes...
Standards — A Strategic Business Issue
January 2007Are you overlooking a strategic business issue? You may be, if you are not involved in the development of standards that may impact your business....
INDUSTRY STANDARDS — FOR THE COMMON GOOD
September 2006STANDARDS ARE not the sexist topic. The need for exactness can make even their names a tough read. Take, for example, ISO 12647-2, the standard...
CLOSED-LOOP COLOR CONTROL — SMALL CHALLENGES, BIG REWARDS
May 2006THE WORLD of closed-loop color control (CLC) somewhat resembles a PGA-caliber golf course. In both cases, the rewards for mastering it are high, but hazards...
