Electronic Publishing articles from August 2003

Electronic Publishing archives from August 2003

The next generation.(Editorial)(Rochester Institute of Technology's Printing Application Laboratory is profiled)
August 1, 2003... Nowhere is the commitment to educating the next generation of graphic arts professionals more clear than at the Rochester Institute of Technology's Printing Application Laboratory. Part of RIT's School of Print Media, the lab features a range...

Official handbook for Graph Expo.(show insider)
August 1, 2003... Beginning on Sunday morning, September 28th, more than 40,000 attendees are expected to descend on Chicago for Graph Expo and Converting Expo 2003. Running for four days, through Wednesday October 1st, the show represents the graphic arts...

Workflow heritage.(What's New)
August 1, 2003... Workflow has become the "essence of life" in the printing industry. It seems to be the driving force for decisions about new equipment in prepress, pressroom, and bindery. The economic environment today requires more efficiencies than ever to...

Davis Marksbury.(Perspective)(Exstream Software Inc.)(Interview)
August 1, 2003... A University of Kentucky magna cum laude graduate with a degree in engineering, Davis Marksbury began his career with Shell Oil in Houston doing computer modeling for offshore oil platforms. While there, he was appointed to a management task...

Printing the whole world: wide-format printers stake out vast new territories for graphic expression.(Digital printers)
August 1, 2003... Anyone who has been inspired by a clean, new sheet of paper to write or draw knows there's something about all that open space, that untouched blank area, that unleashes the creative impulse. That spark is magnified when the sheet in question...

Resource guide to wide-format printers.
August 1, 2003... From pretty wide to extremely wide, there are a variety of wide-format output devices on the market to meet almost any need. And judging from the increasing popularity of building wraps, bus wraps, stadium signage, banners, drapes, and other...

Beyond the four walls of color: when companies print with six colors or more, they find not just color benefits, but operational efficiencies as well.
August 1, 2003... Harry Potter pops off posters, Barbie and Spiderman star on stickers, and Buzz Lightyear flies off cereal boxes, thanks to Hexachrome, Pantone's six-color printing process that adds orange and green to a reformulated CMYK color gamut. Many...

Giving nature a hand: many digital photos are so wretched that repair in Photoshop is obviously needed. But professional shots that look good at first glance usually need to be corrected, too. Don't blame the photographer--blame nature, and the eye.(Make Ready)
August 1, 2003... The High Sierras cast their moisture-catching net each fall. They haven't caught much in recent years, but every so often--this winter, for example--El Nino awakens, and vast snows accumulate, waiting for a spring that will create oceans of...

The mystery of movement in print: a marketing company takes a unique approach to a traditional direct-mail brochure by applying a lenticular cover that adds movement, morphing, and zooming.(design in action)
August 1, 2003... To entice vacationers to explore, relax, and rejuvenate in Florida, a marketing company produced 100,000 20-page travel planners with covers that depict a kayak floating across the water, water rippling, and vacation images zooming in and out....

Mac OS X enables fast RIPing and color accuracy; Color Technology discovers that DigiPage 4.0, a RIP once, output many (ROOM) workflow, running on a Mac OS X, is fast and produces accurate color.(in the field)
August 1, 2003... What if you could get a new RIP for one-tenth the price you've paid in the past, without any significant reduction in power or functionality? You'd jump at the chance, right? That's what Color Technology Inc. of Portland, Oregon, has been...

Printer praises advances in digital paper; untreated, uncoated paper for digital presses pleases fashion and ad agency clients.(in the field)
August 1, 2003... If you're in the competitive digital printing business, you can't compromise on quality printing, especially if your clients include museums, fashion designers, and ad agencies. Coloredge Visual, a 250-person graphics house in New York...

The Swiss army knife of scanning: Epson's 3200 Pro delivers lots of features and high quality at a low price.(Epson 3200 Pro)
August 1, 2003... Over the past 30-plus years I have worked in scanner development, testing and otherwise playing with more scanners than I can count, but the Epson 3200 Pro is unique. Upon unpacking this fairly ordinary-looking scanner I wondered whether it...

Digital gallery: Michael Knapp.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... After years of taking liberties with his illustration style--creating exaggerated cartoon-quality images for clients such as Saatchi & Saatchi, The History Channel, and Verizon--Michael Knapp is now reining in his style. Instead of freelancing,...

The history of the point.(Frank Talk)(measurement system for type)
August 1, 2003... The Great Chicago Fire, one of the first corporate conglomerates, and a badly printed ruler helped forge the unique measurement system for type. Simon Fournier proposed a system of 72 points per inch in 1737, and published a printed scale for...