Printing onto unusual media
July 10, 2008
Written by Rob Griffith
After nearly ten years in colour management there aren’t many things I haven’t profiled. Printing onto cermaics, fabrics, plastics, metals can all be profiled to give better results but of course they do cause more problems than conventional media.
This week I visited a company I have been to before that seem to delight in giving me something new to profile. I have previously colour managed their fabric printing with great success and this has meant they now call me in whenever they get a new system in. This time as well as re-profiling a dye sublimation fabric printing system as part of a regular maintenance agreement I was going to tackle their new leather printing system. Read more
Visit our stand at the DPI Show, London
June 18, 2008
The Colour Collective is exhibiting at the ‘Digital Photo & Imaging Show’ (DPI) at the Business Design Centre, London from June 26th – 27th.
Come along and see us on the ‘Native Digital’ stand and check out the latest Eizo monitors as well as X-Rite colour management equipment too.
DPI will provide pro-photographers and the whole photographic industry a knowledge-based event where they can see and try the currently creative, the productively profitable and the just plain useful and interesting-to-know solutions and services in digital imaging. Read more
Coins and Medals – colour management at work in museums
May 21, 2008
Written by Rob Griffith.
I always enjoy working with Museums, it is fascinating to look behind the scenes and see things the public never do. The maze of corridors lined with collections and rows of bookshelves with obscure leather bound volumes go on for miles.
The British Museum has been a regular customer since we did project colour managing their Photographic department a few years ago. Last week I visited the Coins & Medals department, not an obvious candidate for colour management perhaps but since I have been doing colour management for nearly ten years now I have learnt that all kinds of people see a need for colour accuracy.
The Coins & Medals team were using an Epson Expression 10000XL flatbed scanner to scan some of their collection of 80,000 bank notes and coins and had bought from us a copy of X-Rite’s ProfileMaker Scanner Module, a couple of IT8 targets and an X-Rite EyeOne Display 2 for monitor calibration. Read more
