10/02/2014 Update added for the Konica Minolta/Komori KM1 UV inkjet launching at IPEX2014

23/09/2013-Added updates and new image for the Landa Nano Presses, which are now delayed by a year.

16/12/2012-I have added some updates re installations and availability of these presses. Also the new OCE ColorStream 5500 color inkjet press has just been announced.

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This blog has been driven by my observations over last Autumns when attending a number of small but very focused and interesting events held for the printing and graphic arts community.

These included the Print Efficiency days held at Apex Graphics in Hemel Hempstead, the Two Sides seminar at Stationers’ Hall and the excellent Forward [...]

For the last 10 years I have been running colour management training courses within  pre-press, colour management and pre-media projects.

I have called these courses ‘Desktop Colour Management’ as they cover the use of colour management in the Adobe CS suite, QuarkXPress and Enfocus Pitstop.

On refection, I think now may be the time [...]

When images are required for printed and other media we now all expect that a digital image will be supplied; from a photographer, client, picture library etc.

However many are still concerned that they do not view the images accurately on their computer screens. This makes any judgement of digital images very [...]

Sadly it may have passed you by, but in October the BPIF released v2 of their ISO 12647 Colour Quality Management certification scheme.

But it is a very important and timely upgrade to the scheme that should be investigated. It incorporates the comments and suggestions from the many printers who have gone thought the [...]

Where your workflow needs to touch your clients

This article is based on a presentation made by Paul Sherfield of the Missing Horse Consultancy at the Jet Set Conference in the Fespa 2013 exhibition held in June 2013 at Excel, London and an subsequent article published in FujiFilms PRINT! magazine.

Workflow and the files created to produce [...]

This blog started in my mind as a bit of a rant at the lack of support and representation the UK printing industry has at government and international levels.

However I’m suddenly in a more positive and constructive mood, strange, as it’s been a difficult morning!

The fact that the British Standards Institute is going [...]

Yes, yet another ‘buzz phase’ for the industry, this time in the colour management area.

 But this is an important one to understand and implement.

 Common colour appearance, as used in this instance is, in its broadest definition, defined as  images and pages will look the same across any media; print, web, mobile, broadcast etc.

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