Sunday, April 30, 2006
Industry News: April 2006
A look back at what happen in April... Adobe PDF Print Engine Adobe Systems announces the Adobe PDF Print Engine, a Software Development Kit (SDK) that will enable software and hardware vendors to leverage the power of pure PDF in...
Thursday, April 27, 2006
GRACoL 7 Feedback Requested
The GRACoL Committee is looking for feedback on the G7 methodology. They have posted a brief online questionnaire to gather industry comments. The questionnaire can be found at: http://www.gracol.org/dk_temp/g7poll.asp If you're familiar with the G7 methodology, take a few minutes...
Wednesday, April 26, 2006
Image Category Experiment
Ken Fleisher, a graduate student at the Munsell Color Science Laboratory at Rochester Institute of Technology is soliciting help for a thesis experiment: He needs people to participate in his internet experiment. The goal of Ken's research is to determine...
Monday, April 24, 2006
RIT Xerox Day University Magazine Article
The Spring 2006 issue of the RIT University Magazine has an article on the RIT Xerox Day event that took place last December at the Gil Hatch Center for Customer Innovation. The article can be found on the RIT University...
Saturday, April 22, 2006
Environmentally Friendly Print
Today is Earth Day, a day intended to bring awareness of and appreciation for the natural environment. It's also a day to look at how individuals and industry can make the Earth a greener place to live. Environmentally sustainable print...
Monday, April 17, 2006
ImagePRESS X, a Sneak Peak
Today I had the opportunity to hear a little about the Canon imagePRESS X, Canon's new digital production press announced shortly after PRINT 05 at the Canon Expo 2005. The Canon imagePRESS X was launched at IPEX 2006 as the...
Thursday, April 13, 2006
A Look at ColorThink Pro
Last Monday Steve Upton of CHROMiX spent the day at RIT showing off ColorThink Pro to a small group of color geeks, meeting with faculty and students, and giving a talk on mastering digital media for color in design, photography...
Wednesday, April 12, 2006
Employment Ad
As a student, I see a lot of job openings pass through my inbox. Today I received a job posting that wins for the prize for most unique, it was a screen shot of four open positions typed into some...
Rochester InDesign User Group Inaugural Meeting
Press Release: Rochester Institute of Technology hosts the first meeting of the Rochester InDesign User Group. Western New York's creative community now has a vehicle through which to gather, share ideas, learn advanced techniques and technologies, and stay ahead of...
Monday, April 10, 2006
GRACoL 7 Characterization Data Available
GRACoL has made the GRACoL 7 characterization data available for public comment: IDEAlliance Posts GRACoL 7 Data for Comment Alexandria, VA, April 10, 2006. The International Digital Enterprise Alliance (IDEAlliance) today announced that it is posting the GRACoL 7 characterization...
Sunday, April 9, 2006
GMB Acquisition Saga Continues
Eichhof Holding AG, the Swiss company that had announced plans to offer a counter-bid for Amazys Holding AG released a statement today indicating they will not place a competing bid for the assets of GretagMacbeth: Eichhof Holding AG opts not...
Wednesday, April 5, 2006
CHROMiX Contributes Color Management Software to RIT
Donation benefits print and photography students; CHROMiX president speaks at RIT April 10 CHROMiX, a Seattle, Wash., based company which provides color management products, consulting, training and technical support to visual content-production industries, is donating software to Rochester Institute of...
Monday, April 3, 2006
Blogging IPEX
Will Pollard is blogging IPEX 2006 at his IPEX 2002 blog....
Print-on-Demand is Free
In November of 1995, On Demand Machine Corporation (OMDC) was issued patent number 5,465,213, that describes a System and method of manufacturing a single book copy. The abstract reads: A computer based-book manufacturing, distributing and retailing system for the high-speed...
Gravure Gamut Optimization
My notes on the presentation given by Professor Bob Chung at TAGA did not give the content he presented justice. Bob does a good job at making his research available to everyone and I'm happy to see that he has...
In The Balance Blog
Xerox (I assume it's someone within the Production Systems Group) has started a printing industry blogged called In The Balance: The "In The Balance Blog" is brought to you by Xerox and created for all within the printing and graphic...
