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Can you imagine printing packages and labels without black ink? Neither can I. But the New York State Legislature can, and some of its members want to force the industry in that direction by banning the pigment carbon black from packaging and label production. It's just one part of a sweeping...

Paul, thanks sincerely for the defense, and no contest to the criticisms of the web page, which was designed and posted many years ago. But, the query and the story it describes are genuine, and they have nothing to do with whatever other services I may offer. I've interviewed a number of owners...

For a story about how printers plan their capital expenditures, I'd like to hear from owners / CEOs who have recently made or plan to make major investments in production technologies. Please contact me at [email protected]

A new report on the situation, "Color Me Frustrated: Users React to Adobe, Pantone Rift Over PMS Libraries," can be dowloaded at https://pialliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Color-Me-Frustrated-Adobe-Pantone-Rift.pdf or perused at Color Me Frustrated: Users React to Adobe, Pantone Rift Over...

A new report on the situation, "Color Me Frustrated: Users React to Adobe, Pantone Rift Over PMS Libraries," can be dowloaded at https://pialliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Color-Me-Frustrated-Adobe-Pantone-Rift.pdf or perused at Color Me Frustrated: Users React to Adobe, Pantone Rift Over...

In the Bronx, an all-volunteer organization known as Women's Press Collective is demonstrating why print remains foremost among the media as a force for social good. Its pressroom in the Bronx may be the only remaining place in the New York City metro area where people who don’t work for...

From left, Graphic Communications Scholarship Foundation (GCSF) board members David Garcia, Amybeth Menendez, John Aaron, and Diane Romano (president); Samantha Farber, recipient, 2022 APC-NYC Judy Salmon Scholarship Award; Kaye Torres, recipient, 2022 Graphic Communications Scholarship...

These explanations are great–they really clarify the situation for me. Thanks!

Have you tried asking at Printers Advantage (Printers Advantage), a site created by Heidelberg for users of its small-format equipment? Go to the site, register, and post your question in the "Ask the Experts" section, where you'll see a lot of Q&A about the QM-46 and other small presses from...

Here goes: why couldn't we print in color with an RGB plus black ink set? When transparent CMY inks (the subtractive primaries) overprint, they produce R, G, or B (the additive primaries) depending on what combination is used. Wouldn't the same thing happen, but in reverse, with overprints of...

Graph Expo 2008 is coming. What if you could give the exhibitors a “wish list” of the new products and solutions that you would most like to see them bring to the show? Here’s your chance. WhatTheyThink wants to know, and we want to include the hot picks from your wish list in a pre-show story...

Re: General beginner help Gary, you might want to try browsing [here|http://websupport1.citytech.cuny.edu/Faculty/phenry/] for some basic information. Be sure to follow the link to online resources at the bottom of the main page. Good luck with your research.

Re: Graphic Designers job? Just a thought. Magazines state file input requirements on the rate cards they give to their advertisers. Printers post this information on their web sites for all of their customers to see. It's not as if file preparation guidelines were state secrets. They're...

Re: Overs/unders: what's the customary percentage now? Thanks to all for some very insightful answers. Perhaps it's time for a 21st-century rewrite of the "trade customs" as a whole. But things have changed so much on so many fronts that I wonder if the term "customs" still applies.

I was asked the other day whether a 10% over/under allowance was still a generally accepted printing trade custom. My response was that the over/under percentage is whatever the printer and the customer agree to put in the contract. The "official" language of the printing trade customs as...