ColorBase Blog

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Why Printer Maintenance is Important in Color Management

It was mid-summer in the Midwest. My business partner and I were driving from our home state to an adjoining one. Our mission was to spend a couple of days…


ColorBase, Under the Hood: The Data Model Upgrade Enabling a Smarter Printing Industry

Quiet Transformation Our industry’s most advanced database of material, printer, RIP and ICC profile data is undergoing a quiet transformation. While it’s true that  code is never “done” – iterative…


Re-board®: The Environmentally Friendly Solution for Sustainable Constructions

Re-board Technology, developed by Swedish inventor Karl-Gustav Ericsson in the 1990s, revolutionized the concept of environmentally friendly materials. Concerned about the escalating environmental issues caused by excessive resource consumption, Ericsson…


ColorBase’s Changing of the Guard: Teunis’s Journey and Juriaan’s Torch

ColorBase has been a small but important part of the large format community for 20 years – we don’t bring it up to brag, but because we want to emphasize…


How To Create Named Spot Colors in Adobe (and Your RIP)

Before learning how to create named spot colors, it’s important to understand what they are and how they are used. Just a few weeks ago, my business partner Jim Raffel…


Eye on Display – the New Name for Display News

This post contains sponsored content. When I first entered the wide format print industry as a young PR person back in the mid-90s, we were spoiled for choice for publications….