Markzware Announces Upgrade for FlightCheck With Adobe CS5 Support
Markzware (http://markzware.com), the leading developer and inventor of preflighting today announced an upgrade for FlightCheck, its popular preflighting solution. FlightCheck Professional v6.75 for Macintosh adds Adobe CS5 support for InDesign Creative Suite 5. This powerful upgrade gives printers, graphic designers and publishers the ability to preflight efficiently for printing quality control, avoiding costly production errors. […]
Heidelberg USA and PIAG to Host “Check It Out” and “FoldMania” Workshops on June 22
Heidelberg USA’s Print Media Academy, in conjunction with the Educational Foundation of the Printing and Imaging Association of Georgia, will host “Check it Out”, a free prepress, press and bindery check essential skills workshop for print buyers and printers, on June 22 from 9 a.m. until noon. Then following is a second session, “FoldMania,” a […]
FujiFilm To Measure/Rate Proofing Submissions For IPA/IDEAlliance Technical Conference
Can’t attend the IPA/IDEAlliance Technical Conference but still want to know how your proofer rates? Send it to Fujifilm. The Graphic Systems Division of FUJIFILM North America Corporation is using its Taskero Universe ColorPath Verified to measure all proofs during the IPA/ Technical Conference, which is being held in Chicago on June 7-8, and is […]
Markzware Releases Upgrade of QuarkXPress To InDesign (Q2ID v5) Now For Adobe Creative Suite 5!
Markzware (http://markzware.com), the leading developer of preflighting, data extraction and conversion software today released an upgrade of Q2ID v5 (Quark to InDesign), its highly-acclaimed file conversion plug-in for adobe. Q2ID v5 is a quick, easy and affordable method for migrating QuarkXPress content into a new Adobe InDesign document. Macintosh is now available This new version […]
The issue of metamerism in print production
With print, each medium in the production process from original art to image capture, monitor display, proof, and final presswork has its own unique spectral characteristics. The majority of color reproductions utilize cyan, magenta, yellow, and black inks or colorants. But none of those inks are exact spectral matches to the media originally used to […]
A Guide to Preparing Files for Print
With this guide, we are going to examine ways to prepare files for print, covering applications in the Adobe Creative Suite. The examples used are for InDesign, but can apply to Photoshop and Illustrator. This is a basic guide aimed to help people just starting out in the print design business or are looking to […]
Pantone Plus color system debuts
Pantone (Carlstadt, NJ) announces the launch of the Pantone Plus Series, the next generation of the Pantone Matching System. “Adobe Creative Suite plays a central role in helping designers realize their artistic visions and Pantone is also crucial to this process, allowing creatives to make and implement critical color decisions,” says Lea Hickman, senior director, […]
Modernizing the Pantone Matching System
With the release of PANTONE PLUS, Pantone has taken an important step to modernize the PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM (PMS), which has been a color communication standard for half a century. When Pantone introduced the Goe system in 2007, many wondered whether this was an attempt to replace PMS. According to Ron Potesky, that was not […]
Pantone unleashes PANTONE PLUS, the next generation of color
For nearly 50 years, the PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM has been the worldwide color communication standard. As technology and working styles advance, Pantone continues to evolve its color tools and technology to reflect today's design and production workflows. Pantone LLC, an X-Rite company and the global authority on color and provider of professional color standards for […]
Mellow Colour's LinkSpec to make print 'more profitable'
A software system that enables remote approval of colour-critical printing could make printing more profitable, its developer has claimed. Mellow Colour’s LinkSpec allows printers to exchange colour data and print-run reports with print buyers via a secure portal, creating, in effect, a remote press passing service. The print run and proof reports can include colour […]
JPEG images for print production – the facts
Saving an image file in the JPEG format is a commonly used method of “lossy” compression for digital photographic images. The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing for a user selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality. The greater the image compression the smaller the resulting image file and the greater the loss […]
The High Cost of Preventable Errors
It’s no secret that the past several years have been difficult for many printing companies. The big problems – declining print sales and persistent low profit margins – have been discussed in a variety of venues. The recent recession has exacerbated the difficulties, but the underlying cause has been a fundamental shift in the ways […]