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April 2010 : Print

Filed under: Uncategorized — Lindsey @ 10:50 am

March 30, 2010

Enhance Your Printing Efficiency

The third and final part of our printing efficiency blog trilogy looks at the effect of PDF file ink weights on printing efficiency. Our printing efficiency blogs aimed to enhance the understanding of the printing workflow process and the level of colour insight and output associated with PDF files.

PDF Ink Weight Efficiency Issues

A brief example has been included to illustrate this issue appropriately. A 48-page document with an ink weight of 280% up to 360% will have a big impact on the ink distribution, the water balance and significantly influence the stability  of the print run. Excessive ink on a document will also affect the drying time of a job.

By addressing the ink weight of a PDF document at the prepress stage, the press stability and make-ready time will be reduced significantly. This will save time, copy wastage and money. Additionally, it will enhance the quality of the printed document.

How can you increase your press efficiency and save?

  • Develop uniformity of ink distribution
  • Enhance make-ready time
  • Improved print run stability
  • Reduce paper wastage
  • Convert PDF files into ISOcoated-V2 with optimum ink weight
  • Reduce drying time for coated and uncoated stocks

By enhancing your press efficiency it is possible to save a significant amount of ink as well as improve the overall colour quality of prints.

For more on how to resolve PDF ink printing efficiency

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Troubling Times in the Australian Printing Industry

The Australian printing industry is going through a period of innovation stagnation. The recent news of Pettaras Press falling into the hands of administrators further highlights the fragility of the industry. ColourProcess is determined to maintain its corporate growth identity; “driven by innovation”.  These events may prove, more than ever, that innovation is the key to success.

As the European printing industry drives ahead with comprehensive ISO printer certification and advancing automation systems, the Australian industry is lagging further behind. Unless something changes soon, the gap will extend beyond the point of repair.

For more on ISO printer certification

For more on advanced automation systems

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March 2010: Photography

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , — Lindsey @ 2:32 pm

March 17, 2010

ColourProcess drives HeadOn photography festival

ColourProcess is proud to announce its sponsorship of the 2010 HeadOn photography festival.

The inaugural Head On Sydney photography will be held from April 29th till June 5th. The HeadOn festival will play host to over 30 galleries, Australian and international photographers as well as restaurants and cafes from around Sydney.

ColourProcess will award the HeadOn Portrait Prize winners with a collection of our latest software products : basICCaliCube and basICColor grey card, Caldera SnapRIP+ and NEC SpectraView P221 monitors. The HeadOn Portrait Prize is the most critically acclaimed photography award in Australia.

For more information visit the HeadOn website : http://www.headon.com.au.

New Photography Service

We have introduced a new photography service profile on our website. Our photography service bundle will start with NEC SpectraView P211 monitor and Caldera SnapRIP+ 17″ software. Bundle prices will start from just $2,638.00 inc GST.

The NEC SpectraView P211 monitor is an award winning display. It offers the widest colour range on the market covering 96% of the AdobeRGB colour space.

Caldera SnapRIP+ is the leading RIP software for photographers in Europe. It displays exceptional RGB colour restitution, advanced colour proficiency and sharp contrast.

For more on the new photography services

For more on NEC SpectraView P211

For more on Caldera SnapRIP+

NEC SpectraView vs. EIZO Monitors

The NEC SpectraView monitors are the best chosen panels of the NEC MultiSync range for the colour critical market. All NEC SpectraView monitors have the same panel quality with hardware calibration capabilities using the SpectraView Profiler software.

Whereas EIZO monitors come in two different models; the FlexScan and ColorEdge CG which the user finds confusing when trying to figure out what is what.

There are four NEC SpectraView monitors that are “fogra Pre-certified” however EIZO has only the CG243 “fogra Pre-certified”. This indicates the superiority of the NEC SpectraView monitors compared to the EIZO monitors in the colour critical market.

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March 2010: Printer

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , — yves @ 11:21 am

March 9, 2010

Printer:

Part 2: PDF colour reproduction

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In this month’s newsletter we will take a look at PDF colour spaces and print quality.

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In an ideal world the PDF documents supplied to print shops should have been colour managed and created to the printing conditions used at the print shop, to achieve an accurate colour print result for the artwork.

At the creation stage of the PDF, Adobe InDesign will attach an ICC profile to the PDF as an Output Intent. In most cases the Output Intent profiles attached to PDF files are incorrect, compared to the printing conditions used by the print shop.

Another challenge is the colour management settings on the RIP technology in place at the print shop, these settings could influence the print results of the artwork.

The combination of these two variables could result in incorrect colour reproduction of the artwork.

So how can you enhance your colour reproduction?

  • Utilising the correct ICC profiles for converting RGB, Lab and CMYK images, as well as attaching the same ICC profile as the Output Intents when creating PDF files.
  • Use the ISOcoated-v2 ICC profile that is linked to the Australian printing standards for colour conversions and Output Intents
  • Use the ISOcoated-v2 ICC profile to increase the printing efficiency
  • By improving your colour reproduction, you will achieve your return on investment in less than 4 months. ROI Document

In next month’s newsletter we will show you how various ink weights of PDF files will lead to print run instability.

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