IPA Bulletin | Technology

Paper: The Fifth Color, by Trish Wales
May/June 2008
Paper, an analog variable in the digitized color world, is the reflecting surface for ink, affects hue in the highlights, impacts shadows, controls color gamut size, and is anything but a predictable commodity.
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Improved Productivity Benefits Client As Well As Service Provider, by Trevor Haworth
November/December 2007
Agency reduces costs and expands market opportunities with digital proofing.
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Color Management In Packaging by Tyler Harrell
Sept/October 2007
Shorter lead times, increasing pressure on pricing, and consistent quality have become almost a commodity in packaging. Matching color is not a commodity among package printers.
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Building a Total Workflow
July/August 2007
IPA’s 42nd Annual Technical Conference offered an unprecedented opportunity to gain a comprehensive understanding of production capabilities & efficiencies required to successfully operate a total workflow.
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Killer Color Management by Daniel Dejan
July/August 2007
An efficient and effective workflow has to begin with content creation.
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Color Management In the Proofing World by James Summers
May/June 2007
Color Management needs of companies have often outpaced the available tools and the user’s ability to successfully assimilate and manage them.
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Unclogging the Workflow Bottleneck by Gretchen A. Peck
May/June 2007
Even after a decade of digital workflow under our belts, the roles of prepress professionals continue to be blurred, and the digital workflow is far from standardized.
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Finding Inner Peace with JDF by James J. Mauro
March/April 2007
The need to manage assets and projects digitally to streamline workflow has become apparent, but companies also need to leverage asset management to create the greatest benefit to their clients as well as to their own bottom line.
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Automating Your Graphics Workflow by Joe Bracken
January/February 2007
How an Integrated Workflow Can Grow Your Business.
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Workflow: Putting It All Together
November/December 2006
Convergence of digital workflow production, management and distribution into a seamless media landscape is intimately tied to efficiency and productivity.
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Workflow in the End: Output and Fulfillment b y Dr. Twyla J. Cummings
September/October 2006
A technology revolution has been quietly building strength in the most unlikely corner of the print shop—the bindery.
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Workflow Integration: Going with the Flow by James Carpenter
July/August 2006
The quiet revolution in production management is raising profits and delivering new business opportunities.
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Flying Colors by Kelly McCathran
May/June 2006
New Technologies Ease Fears of Using Color Management in Graphic Production.
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Virtual Proofing: Is Your Proof Remotely Accurate? by James Summers
May/June 2006
The landscape of alternatives in remote digital proofing has evolved rapidly, resulting in lower purchasing costs and improved accuracy and speed.
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PDF/X: Frequently Asked Questions-Part IV by Martin Bailey
May/June 2006
Unfortunately, there’s still a lot of misinformation and misunderstanding about PDF/X that lead people to reject it in favor of specifications and workflows that are far more risky and less reliable.
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Workflow: Preflighting & Training for Success by Gretchen A. Peck
March/April 2006
Even after more than a decade of computer-to-plate imaging and digital workflow, there remains a chasm in the process—when digital content files exchange hands.
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AM, FM & In Between: Tuning Your Screening Dial by Bryan Hughes
March/April 2006
No single screening technology will work for every situation and every image we attempt to reproduce. While there are images that benefit from enhancements screening technologies offer, some just don’t.
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Workflow: In the Beginning Creative & Design by James Lockman
January/February 2006
We, as a community, have a unique opportunity to standardize how we approach the design process by extending our workflow back to the drawing board.
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PDF/X: Closing the Loop to Prepress Certainty by Tom Beckenha
July/August 2005
PDF/X is a baseline standard that eliminates much of the uncertainty plaguing PDF files for print production and contains extra information particularly useful in color workflows and proofing.
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Understanding Color Management By Abhay Sharma
March/April 2005
Every imaging device has its own "personality," the color imaging will only produce accurate results if we take into account the personal characteristics of each device.
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