Monthly Archives: October 2009

A Site For Tech-heads That Like to Take Things Apart

October 25, 2009 – 5:58 pm

Apple Insider calls them the “Undisputed teardown experts at iFixit”
The teardowns are great fun as well as having a parts store and free repair manuals:
http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown

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UPDIG - Digital Photography Guidelines

October 22, 2009 – 7:01 pm

No opinions or hearsay just some guidelines:
• Gamma — 1.8 to 2.2 (or L*).
• White point — 5000K to 6500K.
• Brightness levels — 80cd/m2 to 140 cd/m2
“One additional, but little known fact is that many printers routinely re-separate CMYK files to better match their press conditions, or even to save ink by trimming total ink [...]

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Reading CMYK Percentages

October 1, 2009 – 12:45 am

So lately Ive been trying to polish my color management/prepress understanding, this time from the printers perspective of ink on paper as opposed to RGB models, monitors or LAB color.
I thought you might find some of this interesting from the 2007 SWOP guidelines.
http://www.swop.org/specification/SWOP2007Specserrata.pdf
It mentions in the report that gray fade-away tones are best if reproduced [...]

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