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?
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 […]
Beyond the visual, color is science
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 […]
Why TVI is a better term than Dot Gain
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 […]
PODi AppForum Roundup
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 […]
A color reproduction story
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, […]