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Solid screening is a technique that reduces ink consumption (and associated costs) by punching holes – too small to be seen in the presswork – into graphics that normally would print as a solid 100% tone or color. This technique is best suited for newspaper printing where the combination of dot...

For example: Are plate prices going up? Electricity prices? Exporting printing to the US or Canada raising your pricing? Or is your printshop unaffected by the tariffs?

Although we probably all hope to make business decisions in a clear, logical manner, unfortunately our decision making process can easily be compromised without our even being aware that it's happening. Our decision-making processes - whether it's about new equipment purchases or press-check...

Below is an official looking fake invoice that was sent out in the hopes that the receiver - likely a secretary in a large business - would pay, since it appears legitimate and is for a relatively small amount. Note that all the commands to pay use colors that have a strong tonal contrast...

To decide which screen angle to use when a screened PMS/spot color overprints a 4/C process image you will need to look carefully at the image that you will be overprinting. The basic rule is to use the screen angle of the least prominent (or missing) screened process color that will be...

The pigments in fluorescent inks work by absorbing ultraviolet energy (invisible to the human eye), and transmitting it as longer waves in the visible spectrum. Cyan, Magenta, and Yellow process inks can be replaced with their fluorescent equivalents for a strange, while at the same time...

Well maybe just their personalized car license plates - a.k.a. "vanity" plates. They are a great way to publicize your deep involvement in the graphics communications industry. Here are a few examples to inspire:

Just some miscellaneous imaging technology oddities lying around my desktop that I thought were interesting and didn't fit anywhere else. Eugene Omar Goldbeck was a photographer who specialized in large scale group portrait, events, and scenes. Shield made up of 30,000 troops. 1918 Portrait...

Calcium carbonate is used as a filler in the basesheet and in the paper coating as a pigment. It provides brightness and a more blue-white shade than clay does. Calcium carbonate is used in neutral or alkaline paper making, which results in a more permanent sheet than acid paper making by...

No manufacturing process can be absolutely 100% perfect - so every manufacturing process allows for some degree of variation from specifications. For practical and economic reasons, they all have a certain "tolerance for variation." So, what if car manufacturing was toleranced the same way as...