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    AI-generated images: friend or foe?

    Awesome thread full of important insights. Thanks to everyone who responded!
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    AI-generated images: friend or foe?

    I'd like to learn more about the impact that AI-generated images are having on prepress workflows: how frequently customers are submitting them; what kinds of production problems they can cause; whether they create legal issues around privacy, ownership, and copyright. How are shops dealing with...
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    Printers Rally to Cause of Sharing America’s Founding Documents with Students

    Like their forebears at the time of the nation’s founding, printers are doing what they do best to popularize the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States. Read about it here...
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    Offset at drupa

    Offset lithography is well prepared to attract its share of attention at drupa: https://whattheythink.com/articles/119336-offset-stands-ready-take-rightful-place-drupa-2024/
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    "Proposed Ban on Carbon Black Raises Red Flags for New York State Printers"

    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...
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    Editorial inquiry: capital investment

    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...
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    Editorial inquiry: capital investment

    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]
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    Pantone Color Libraries will be removed from future Adobe updates

    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...
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    Adobe to remove Pantone books from Creative Cloud

    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...
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    Printing with a Higher Purpose: Women’s Press Collective

    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...
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    Graphic Communications Scholarship Foundation Salutes 2022 Awardees

    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...
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    naive question about printing in color

    These explanations are great–they really clarify the situation for me. Thanks!
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    toning on my QM-46

    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...
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    naive question about printing in color

    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...
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    Tell WhatTheyThink what's in your Graph Expo "wish list"

    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...
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