print technology
Catching up on some blog-post reading
Sunday, October 18th, 2009
Spent the morning reading blogs and watching some youtube videos, and wanted to share a few great ones with you guys ‘n girls.
Sandee’s new blog and podcast
Sunday, May 3rd, 2009
In case you’ve not yet seen or heard about this one: Sandee (Vectorbabe), InDesign guru from day ONE… has started a great blog and podcast on all things “print”. The blog and podcast are a great addition to her recently published book.
“Bleed ? what’s bleeding? Uuuuhhhh why can’t you print my Powerpoint designed ad in [...]
Dutch Type
Monday, March 10th, 2008
Jan Middendorp writes that his “interest in Letterforms and text faces by Dutch designers such as Hollander, Caecilia, Quadraat, Theses”, were the main triggers for writing his 2004 book “Dutch Type“.
As someone who used to carry a Dutch passport prior to swapping it for an Australian one over a decade ago, this book triggers more than [...]
Colour Management
Monday, January 21st, 2008
As someone who has Real World Color Management by Chris Murphy, Fred Bunting and the late Bruce Fraser on the shelf. A publication I highly recommend for anyone interested in learning about “all things colour”. It’s great to see that Chris Murphy has written Colour Management Essential Training. According to Amazon.com’s write-up:
Printing Glossary and Term
Tuesday, June 26th, 2007
PrintingTips.com is an excellent site containing information on Print Preparation, Print Products and a Glossary of print terms.
PDF or Native Files? On the soapbox…
Friday, February 2nd, 2007
Ok, after the previous post I could not resist the following ’soapbox’ speech
I believe that any organisation accepting digital artwork into its print production workflow (be it offset printing, label printing, screen printing, large format, sign writing etc.), would benefit from being able to handle artwork based on delivery of PDF files.. However, [...]
What you see is what you print
Monday, April 3rd, 2006
"What you see is what you print" is a dream come true for print service providers. The Adobe PDF Print Engine gives the prepress industry the ability to take another gigantic step into the automation of prepress. With the Adobe PDF Print Engine, native print hardware can output PDF files containing live transparency. [...]