Color Blindness and the Color Blue

March 6, 2012

On a recent flight, I sat next to a pediatric eye surgeon and we had an interesting conversation about the use of red and green in slide presentations. The surgeon’s contention is that since about 8 percent of the male population is color blind and almost all color blindness is red- and green-related, your key [...]

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With video, the script is just as important as the final cut

February 27, 2012

Last week, we spent two days at a partner’s facility shooting video of their printing process in conjunction with our color verification solution. We’ve been working closely with Mutoh over the last year to promote our software which is part of the ColorVerify solution, built around Mutoh’s onboard SpectroVue to ensure optimal color reproduction. This relationship finds [...]

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Measuring TVI on inkjet proofs is meaningless … or is it?

February 21, 2012

We have taken a combination of two posts on CEO Jim Raffel’s personal blog to discuss measuring inkjet proofs. They has been repurposed for this blog. If interested, you can read the original posts from July 27, 2005, and  March 9, 2006. Before we begin, understand that our frame of reference on this post stems [...]

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Beyond the visual, color is science

February 14, 2012

Since color is something you see, you may never have thought of the science behind color. There is, however, plenty of mathematics and applied physics that make the measurement and reporting of accurate color reproduction possible. Here’s how color science is explained on Wikipedia: The science of color is sometimes called chromatics, chromatography, colorimetry, or [...]

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Why TVI is a better term than Dot Gain

February 7, 2012

This was re-purposed from CEO Jim Raffel’s original on Feb. 7, 2006. You can read that post here. In some facilities, print and color quality are measured and referred to as dot gain. Others refer to it as tone value increase or TVI. They refer to the same printing phenomenon: Dots of color appearing too [...]

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PODi AppForum Roundup

January 31, 2012

Last week, ColorMetrix CEO Jim Raffel attended the PODi AppForum conference in Las Vegas for the first time. What follows are some of his observations, thoughts and comments about the conference. I did a bit of live reporting from the conference via my Twitter account. Following are two tweets I sent during Ken Schmidt’s keynote [...]

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A color reproduction story

January 24, 2012

This month, a study predicted the death of newspapers within five years. Whether or not I agree, there is no arguing that the newspaper industry has been in trouble for some time. Of course, there are many factors to blame for the downfall of newspapers: the introduction of the Internet, the reduction in advertising dollars, [...]

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How to stop printing bad proofs

January 18, 2012

This was originally posted on JimRaffel.com on Jan. 9, 2007. It has been revised for this blog. You can view the original here. At the close of 2006, ColorMetrix CEO Jim Raffel presented three proofing New Year’s resolutions, which he promised to expand upon in 2007. Resolution #1 stated that printers should “increase productivity by [...]

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Normalizing color with measure parties and outside the box R&D

January 11, 2012

In late November and early December of 2011, our resident marketing and project management guru Shelby Sapusek and I participated in what we termed “Measure Party 2.0.” When we include Measure Party 1.0 and 3.0, a total of seven people from four different companies have participated in measuring almost 500 color swatches with a half [...]

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Twitter Tennis with Michael Josefowicz

January 6, 2012

One of our goals this year is to let the voices of those in the print industry be heard. We have plans to do this in a number of ways. We’re calling it Exclusive Engagement. We were fortunate on Jan. 4 to get into an impromptu conversation with Michael Josefowicz (pictured) on Twitter. Like most [...]

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