Color/Quality Control - Software

Users share how they combined color management methodologies with high levels of automation to drive business profitability.

Speakers discuss what a bigger color gamut means to businesses and how to leverage the power of more color into customers’ advantage.

IDEAlliance has awarded Hard Copy Proofing Certification for SWOP (Specifications for Web Offset Publications) grades 3 & 5 and GRACoL (General Requirements and Applications for Commercial Offset Lithography) grade 1, to Canon’s imagePROGRAF iPFX400 series. The certification indicates to end-users that the appearance of the hard copy proof used in the application will be consistent and accurate with the final print production product based on industry standards.

In this webinar, users explore easy-to-use end-to-end tools that can be combined with digital press solutions to optimize productivity.

How successful service providers are implementing the right tools to deliver consistent color according to industry standards.

Recognizing that digital printing has become a mainstream technology, offset printers are increasingly adding digital capabilities to their repertoire of offerings. In some shops, short-run jobs are run entirely on digital presses. Some do short-runs on a digital device and a longer runs of the same job on a offset machine. Others combine variable content digital pages with those from an offset press in the same job.

In each case, colors have to match and the overall look and feel of the document must meet customers' requirements with minimal differences. This webinar will discuss how printers are successfully using the best features of both technologies AND managing color across offset and digital presses.
 
Our expert panelists will share their experiences on such key issues as:

• Ensuring jobs run on different devices look the same
• Managing paper selections
• Setting customer expectations
• Color management tools and profiles used for success
• Managing color for logos and other branding requirements

Sabine’s out-of-town client, a very sophisticated direct marketing agency, had examined the press okay process, jettisoned accepted assumptions, and along the way demolished the model entirely. Air travel, hotels, loupe, D50 lighting, heck, even dots. Who needs any of it?

In the in-depth, three-part “IdeasOnline Webinar” series—titled “G7 Process Control Webinar: A Roadmap to Efficiency & Predictability”—print providers will discover the process and benefits of standardizing their print production workflows. All sessions are from 2-3 p.m. Eastern Time.

Thank you, The Wall Street Journal. You did me and a whole lot of other production managers a huge favor today with your printing foul-up. Every couple of years, it seems, I have to talk an editor out of going along with a designer’s proposal to jazz up a publication by getting rid of boring old black body type in articles. “Ooh, purple would look nice.”

The Journal printed a graphic showing Pinterest postings intended to inspire innovation among General Electric employees. The Pinterest captions use colored body type, which is fine for the web but looked like mud when printed

The ‘Process Colour Standardisation’ report is a guide to better understand and use standardized process printing and workflow optimization. PrintCity project members have shared their combined competencies to help implement standardization, plus improve quality, consistency and productivity in offset printing.