Tuesday, January 31, 2006
X-Rite acquires GretagMacbeth
X-Rite has announced that it will acquire GretagMacBeth: On January 31, 2006, X-Rite and Amazys Holding AG, parent company of GretagMacbeth, announced they entered into a definitive agreement under which X-Rite will acquire Amazys Holding AG. The companies are joining...
Friday, January 27, 2006
Monitor Calibration for the Masses
When I visited Pantone a few weeks back, they had just released their new monitor calibration tool dubbed Huey. Huey is designed to calibrate and profile both CRT & LCD displays and sells for $89.00, making it the most affordable...
Thursday, January 26, 2006
RR Donnelley Patent Lawsuit
On January 17th, RR Donnelley & Sons Company filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Quark Inc, and Creo Inc. (Now a Kodak GCG Entity) for allegedly infringing on patents in the area of digital print processes. The patents referenced in...
Sunday, January 22, 2006
del.icio.us
I have added my del.icio.us bookmaks to the sidebar as a tag cloud. del.icio.us is the highly popular social bookmarking website that allows you to classify and share your bookmarks with the net community using tags. - A method that...
Friday, January 20, 2006
Color.dots
Last Fall in the Color Reproduction course I took at RIT, we had to analyze the image structure of various image reproduction methods for an assignment. Having access to a photomicrograph, I took some detailed photos and created Color.dots. Color.dots...
Thursday, January 19, 2006
Delta E
If you are involved in prepress or pressroom operations or any other color imaging operation, you will most likely hear the term Detla E or Δ E used to to describe the difference between two colors.Do you ever wonder where...
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Newsvine
I just got accepted into the newsvine.com beta program. Newsvine is a collective where anyone can read, write, and influence the news. Basically, the site aggregates news from around the web from places like the AP and traditional news sources....
Tuesday, January 17, 2006
Benjamin Franklin, 300
Happy 300th Birthday to Benjamin Franklin, Founding Father, Inventor, and Printer....
Monday, January 16, 2006
Celebrate International Printing Week
January 15-21 is International Printing Week. International Printing Week® (also know as Graphic Communications Week in education circles) is a motivational tool that all people in the graphic communications industry can use to enhance our industry. International Printing Week® has...
NYC Trip
I spent the last few days of last week in New York City with a group of students and faculty from the School of Print Media. In NYC the group toured the operations of Pantone and Time Inc. (People/People en...
Friday, January 6, 2006
Moments in Print 2005
I got an email suggesting that I compile a top ten list of printing headlines/innovations etc from the last year. This got me thinking about the events and trends effecting the graphic communications industry in 2005. Michael H. Bruno Passes...
