Latest NEC Price Updates Available Now From ColourProcess

The final newsletter for 2010 promotes the recent change in NEC monitor prices from ColourProcess. A number of NEC products available from ColourProcess have been reduced in price now offering clients highly competitive monitor prices. The recent launch of the new Google image format WebP will rival the old favourite, the jpeg. image format. How will this new Google innovation change the image format market and the photography industry?

Latest NEC Pricing From ColourProcess

The new pricing of NEC monitors at ColourProcess ensures clients are getting a competitive price for their NEC products.

The new NEC SpectraView Profiler bundle and the SpectraView Reference line pricing ensures ColourProcess clients receive superior monitor pricing. These two products also offer customers the highest monitor quality performance when compared to any EIZO monitor. The pricing for both the Profiler bundle and the Reference monitor have been updated in October and now ensure that ColourProcess clients receive competitive NEC monitor prices.

ColourProcess prides itself on offering clients superior products, at market competitive prices, with comprehensive after sales support. Don’t miss out on this latest NEC offer available at ColourProcess which comes with superior support and knowledge assistance.

For more on the updated NEC monitor prices available at ColourProcess

WebP vs. JPEG

Google has recently launched the WebP, pronounced ‘weppy’, which it hopes will revolutionise the way we transfer images via remote connection.

Google’s latest addition to the image format library allows users to compress image files to up to 40% smaller than a jpeg. format. This is not only set to change the way we send image files but, as over 60% of web content is made up of images this new, highly compressed image format is likely to enhance image transfer speed and significantly reduce required storage space. This new format joins WebM, a multimedia film container format already launched by Google in early 2010.

There has been some heavy criticism of the latest file format innovation with industry experts pointing out that hardware equipment, print facilities and image editing software do not have a built in WebP function thus preventing its use by the masses, for the time being.  Furthermore, the quality results from converting files, with such significant compression, leaves much scope for improvement as images often appear blurred.

Thus, the question still remains regarding the significance of Google’s launch of the WebP and how it will stand up against of the much loved jpeg. format.

ColourProcess will watch the development of this new image format closely, analysing all its strengths and weaknesses. This latest format addition continues the downward spiral of file quality importance by reducing the image quality (300 dpi.) and print page quality (2 400 dpi.) to the minimal web browser quality level (72 dpi.). It’s anyones guess how far this downward print quality spiral will go.

ColourProcess will be back in early 2011

ColourProcess wishes everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and will be returning in February 2011 after an extended holiday break.

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Recent Hot Topics in the Australian Print Industry

The final printer newsletter from ColourProcess in 2010 looks at another tool available to users of the pdfToolbox 4.5 by callas software. This latest software product allows you to convert PDF files to black and white simply and easily. Furthermore, following on from our digital domination newsletter trend we discuss the final issue further in the last of our three part digital newsletter series.

How can pdfToolbox 4.5 meet your black and white PDF needs?

ColourProcess previews another outstanding tool from the latest PDF innovation software pdfToolbox 4.5 by callas software.

Digital printers, printing black and white documents on colour print engines have been challenged with the cost of click charges; one black click charge or a four colour click charge. callas pdfToolBox 4.5 can, with one click, transform a colour PDF into a black and white document or remove four colour crop marks from a black and white document which ensures users only get charged for a single black.

The purchase of a pdfToolBox 4.5 plug-in will be paid off after producing 5,000 copies of four colour black and white documents which have been corrected.

Learn more about pdfToolbox 4.5 by callas software

Watch ColourProcess video tutorials showcasing the extensive tools available with pdfToolbox 4.5

Digital Domination

A recent ProPrint article has further cemented opinions about the digital revolution of print. The digital print industry is continuing to grow despite concerns over a double-dip recession. The main unanswered question is how have digital printers been able to continue to grow in 2010 whilst others have struggled?

Printers are being forced to change their job runs as clients cut down on their print demands. Clients are requesting print orders more impulsively to match a single, specific purpose with very short turn around times and small print quantities. Gone are the days when clients ordered two years worth of print brochures.

This new way of ordering print is having a big impact on offset printers as they are unable to meet the impulsive print demands of clients. Digital printers offer a more flexible print solution to offset allowing for smaller jobs quantities and shorter run times which remain cost efficient.

In August’s print newsletter Yves spoke about his experience of the digital domination at IPEX 2010. It is no surprise that digital is moving into a more dominant position in the print market as the industry changes its buying habits.

ColourProcess has long predicted this progressing trend towards digital print domination. We have a number of key software products available to support printers as client ordering becomes more impulsive. The latest automation software from ColourProcess, the standard application with ready-to-use workflows, DFlux, and the more sophisticated, customised workflow technology, SwitchBOX, can ensure printers enhanced flexibility which is being demanded in the industry.

For more on the latest, standardised automation technology from ColourProcess

For more on the sophisticated and customised workflow solution from ColourProcess

ColourProcess will be back in early 2011

ColourProcess wishes everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and will be returning in February 2011 after an extended holiday break.

Tip of the Month

Converting PDF files to black and white with pdfToolbox 4.5 by callas software.

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