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Colour Management
The future of industrial inks – from film insert moulding to haptics
Marabu is a world-leading manufacturer of screen, digital and pad printing inks and creative colors, offering a wide variety of solutions for industrial and graphic printing applications. We spoke to the team at Marabu, near Stuttgart, Germany, as the firm celebrated its 165th birthday.
Printing SA: Fit for the future
Abisha Katerere, Marketing Manager of Printing SA, a FESPA Association, discusses the outlook in the sector in South Africa, and motivating young people to join the industry.
Multicoloured embroidery on demand
Conny Svanberg, digital embroidery expert at Coloreel, and exhibitor at the Personalise Make Wear feature at Personalisation Experience and Sportswear Pro 2024, discusses dye sublimation and colour management.
Teaching design and colour management skills to young print professionals
Printing SA runs a popular series of courses to smooth the career paths of the printers of the future.
A revolution in colour measurement?
Ultra-portable colour measurement devices could open up accuracy and reproducibility to a new generation of creatives, says Fogra.
Quality-assuring colour management for big brands
Hagen Herlitze, Team Leader Applications Print and Packaging EMEA at X-Rite, talks about how ColorCert and cloud-based applications can assist colour management quality assurance from wherever you are in the world.
X-Rite eXact 2 spectrophotometer: new benefits for wide format printers
We spoke to X-Rite about how its new spectrophotometer can help streamlining workflows, reduce waste and free up worker capacity.
What’s new in colour management technology?
Colour management expert Paul Sherfield on the latest developments in the graphic arts industry and advice on purchasing spectrophotometers.
Marco Roos: mastering the colour matrix
We speak to Color Concepts founder Marco Roos about how he created a company that sits at the cutting edge of colour profiling and print material testing.
Colour monitoring with environmental data
Why environmental factors can affect printing quality, and how to manage it.
The dynamic potential of iccMAX
Jonathan Rogers, International Marketing Manager, Onyx Graphics, on why the company is a supporter of iccMAX profiles.
How to calibrate greys with confidence
CHROMiX owner Steve Upton explains how grey balance in colour management leads to customer satisfaction.
Beyond XML and JDF: the next step
While XML and JDF form the basis of print automation, other newer formats are emerging that can make data transfer for printers even more efficient.
Colour management in backlit wide format applications
Dorin Pitigoi, a colour and standardisation expert at Transilvae, discusses how to get eye-catching and consistent results in backlit wide format printing.
CxF – a question of colour
X-Rite’s Ray Cheydleur explains how the CxF standard helps to make the exchange of colour data more efficient and accurate.
Steve Upton at CHROMiX and colour managed workflows
How ColorThink software lets printers match colours correctly.
Keeping colour consistent
Michael Dreher, Training and Support Manager at Caldera, and Sebastien Hanssens, VP Marketing and Operations, on using colour calibration across different inkjet technologies to ensure great results across multiple printers.
