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Sorry, but... From your water bill to the newspaper to the phone book to annual reports, just about anything that was printed 20 years ago can be delivered and read electronically now. That's why litho is dying, and Donald J. Trump with his "plan" to do something "terrific" is not going to...

Maybe, but if you read their brochure on it, it sure as hell sounds like gloss varnish to me. The way they describe what it is and how it works is exactly the way gloss varnish works on a litho press. But the fact is that even if it's some magic formula and not exactly gloss varnish, it's still...

I haven't seen or profiled a 4000Pro yet, so it's only my opinion and purely taken from reading their literature... But from what I've read and seen, I think the machine is a mis-reading of the market and a mistake. The "BIG" "HUGE" "NEW & IMPROVED" feature of these machines seems to be the...

Well, first off and not to be too picky, but... They're all inkjets. The 825 and the 8400 use aqueous ink, a latex would use latex ink, and a solvent would use solvent ink, but those are all different types of inkjet ink and they are all different types of inkjet printers. Myself, I'm a huge...

Regardless of the machine or the situation, it works like this: First you create a machine state, and then you characterize the machine in that state. The machine state is everything that is variable and controlable in the process of reproducing colors with primaries: White point; ink chroma...

First thing to remember is that unless you're doing something totally wrong -- using your monitor profile as your RGB working space -- then how your monitor is profiled won't affect how your printer prints your images at all. Set up correctly, your monitor is just a window on what you're doing...

Gamma Print is a pretty bare-bones version of Onyx that's sold as OEM with the Epson Sure Colors. Thrive is the Onyx flagship product. The main difference between them is that Gamma uses the Jaws RIP engine, and Thrive uses the Adobe PDF Print Engine. Thrive is also scalable, so that you can...

I'd wager it does. Almost all RIP's do. But if it doesn't, you can convert your files to whatever print space you're going to use (duplicates, of course, just for proofing) in Photoshop at Absolute Colorimetric rendering intent, print the result and accomplish pretty much the same thing. Mike...

Just to note: it's not "...certainly a direction worth looking into." It's how it's done. If you look into any other direction but this one, you're wasting your time. Mike Adams Correct Color

Are you asking rhetorically? They own Pantone.

Absolutely! Regardless of your digital process, improving your color management and color workflow will always increase your quality and decrease your waste and spoilage. Mike Adams Correct Color

Regardless of the device, the only purpose of input color settings is to attempt to get the color in your files from the incoming color space -- which is whatever space in which they were created -- to their destination color space -- which is the printer profile you're using. So, since all...

Well, the answer is that neither is 'right' and neither is 'wrong.' They're both just representations and if either one allows you to visualize what's actually happening, then it has worked for your needs. And what's actually happening is that in a given condition, and device that reproduces...

Actually and truthfully, mainly what you'll get from end users is, "I love mine!" It's a pretty good bet that they're not all that familiar with what else is out there, and the answer to your question in any event is that it depends entirely on what you want to do. There's no perfect machine...

Which is best would completely depend on just what you want "color management" to do. If you're looking for screen gamut, the MBP is probably a better bet. If you're looking to profile a printer and then print images to that profiled printer either from color managed applications directly...

Not to mention that it wasn't actually developed by EFI.

There really isn't all that much difference between Gracol 2006 and SWOP, truth be known. Lots of people push Gracol as some kind of Holy Grail, but the difference between it and SWOP is really only basically the difference between sheetfed and web printing. That's the reason you can often use...

Pat, Yes and no. The fact is that in large format digital of any kind -- UV, aqueous, latex, whatever -- there are no common white points or chroma values as there are in other segments of the industry. And profiles aren't made to conform to any standard, they're made -- if made correctly --...

Joe did indeed ask at Signs101. When he called one of the old-line posters there a Neanderthal, it kind of went downhill from there.

The entire issue you're having here is printer profiles. In all cases, printing dots are made by a RIP using information in a profile. So it'a a profile that tells the printer what dots to make, and thus, what to print. The question I'd ask is if you're planning on sending work that has to...