Mistakes That Can Affect Color Reproduction

When you’re trying to achieve consistent and repeatable color, your first inclination might be to jump right into making test prints, profiling your printer, or downloading profiles from ColorBase.com. But there are several tasks that should be addressed beforehand. By failing to address these variables, you can easily make a mistake that will affect your…

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Print Sample TV with Pat McGrew

Konica Minolta printed sample embellished

Konica Minolta and MGI are well-known equipment manufacturers in the printing industry. In this Print Sample TV episode with Pat McGrew, she will show great applications from the two. Pat recently had the privilege of visiting the Konica Minolta Customer Education Center, Customer Experience Center in Japan. and got the chance to get up close…

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Why Monitor Calibration Is Important For Color Management

As human beings, we can see millions and millions of colors with our eyes. Of course, we want to be able to recreate all those colors in our prints. But that’s impossible. While we can see all these colors, our computer monitors can theoretically reproduce about 17 million colors. Beyond that, our printing devices can…

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6 Ways You Can Be More Sustainable in Print

Climate change is having a serious impact on the planet and requires not only our immediate focus, but meaningful action to avoid doing irreversible and catastrophic damage to the environment. Human activity is responsible for almost all of the increases in greenhouse gas (GHG) we have seen in the last 150 years. GHG traps heat…

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Which laminator is suitable for you?

We often hear the same question from prospective buyers in various forms: “Laminators only consist of two rollers and a motor. So why are some more expensive than others?” It’s like cars. They all have four wheels and an engine, but the price can be very different. Everyone recognizes the difference between a Mercedes and…

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Stickers – The Old School Form of Social Media

Every time I visit my barber in Rotterdam they offer me stickers, and I always accept. Partially because stickers are my field of work, but the reasons definitely run deeper than that. This got me thinking: why are we so eager to accept stickers? Most of us find other forms of advertisement bland, or downright…

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