IPA Bulletin | Standards

Proactive Proofing: The Key to Our Industry’s Future, by Larry Warter
May/June 2008
If monitor, proof and press are all calibrated, the workflow will become proactively driven, eliminating the redundant workflow that has always plagued our industry.
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Whither Goest? by Larry Warter
January/February 2008
Standards and the Future of Our Industry
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Standards Update: Summary of TC 130 Meeting, David Q. McDowell & Larry Warter
November/December 2007
A look at issues that are being addressed at the graphic arts international standards level.
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A Pressman’s View of Printing Color Managed Files…or How to Appreciate Don Quioxte, by Larry Warter
July/August 2007
In any aesthetic endeavor where you can’t actually define quality, the only measure of quality is consistency.
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JDF: “Just Defines Fat” Before Lean Manufacturing, by Larry Warter
March/April 2007
JDF is not a workflow solution, it is a connectivity solution. Developers are using workflow modeling to define all possible data transfer interactions in our industry, and they are concentrating on the connections.
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Standards & the Creative Community by Roy Zucca
January/February 2007
Creatives today not only embrace standards but also see them as an integral part of their workflow.
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The G7 Process: An Introduction by Larry Warter
November/December 2006
The G7 Process is based on controlling visually predictable midtones during printing.
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WYGIWYWTS: What You Get Is What You Want to See! by Larry Warter
July/August 2006
The industry has made a major step forward toward fully predictable proofing and standardized printing.
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Update on Standards Activity by David McDowell
May/June 2006
Finding your way through the maze of standards activity—from color characterization & measurement to data exchange and process control.
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A White Paper on White Papers by Larry Warter
January/February 2006
Each industry segment has tried to specify the paper it uses; they are finding that the papers they choose usually do not meet their own specifications.
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New Initiatives In StandardsResult from Needs & Concerns by David Q. McDowell
November/December 2005
Increasing interest in, and use of, color management has prompted more cooperative activities within the industry.
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Printing Across Borders by Larry Warter
September/October 2005
Promoting one common initiative that will work back through accredited standards bodies and result in a true international commercial printing standard.
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CIM, JDF, JMF -Putting It All Together by Charles Blanchard
September/October 2005
There's a lot of hype and interest in CIM and JDF but not many involved in the graphic communications industry are actually using it.
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Update on Standards: What's Happening? by David Q. McDowell
September/October 2005
It's time to step back and review the overall standards program.
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GRACoL Guidelines for Realistically Applying Color Management by Larry Warter & Don Hutcheson
May/June 2005
The printer has the toughest job of anyone in the industry and suffers the harshest scrutiny.
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Print-to-Proof Match: What's Involved? by David Q. McDowell
March/April 2005
Understanding what is needed to use measurement data to predict the quality of a match between a proof and a print.
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Printing Perfect Press Sheets for SWOP & GRACoL by Larry Warter
January/February 2005
Understanding what will be needed to develop a "press friendly" standardprinting condition.
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