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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

Back from Drupa with sore feet but with more info,  so added two [...]

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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Well, yes, it was in many ways. Of course, it was called the ‘inkjet drupa’ and, for the first time, printers could actually buy a production B2 inkjet press, such as Fujifilm’s JetPress 720. While there were many other production digital B2 inkjet presses launched, most will not be available for at least 18 months [...]