Colour accuracy, consistency and appearance are becoming an increasing requirement for all areas of printed products. The wide format market cannot stand apart from this issue. This blog looks at how a colour-managed workflow can save money, assure quality and retain clients.

 1.    A rip is not a workflow!

 The wide format rips from the [...]

The blog is based on a briefing paper I wrote for CMA Imaging, so is published with many thanks to them.

For the last few years the International Standards Organisation, the ISO TC130 international committee, which develops all the printing industry related standards, ISO 12647, 12646, 3664, etc, has been slowly amending [...]

I have heard this comment too many times over the last 15 years, so I have at last, been moved to briefly discuss why this is wrong.

It has been said that a digital image without a profile is like buying a burger from a dodgy burger van; is it beef, lamb, dog or [...]

Yes, it’s the revised ISO  standard printing conditions for sheet and web fed heatset-offset litho. The revision was published at the end of 2013 and is available from the ISO web site.

This blog will look at the main changes to the revised standard and the new data sets and profiles being [...]

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 [...]