Monthly Archives: October 2009

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

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

UPDIG – Digital Photography Guidelines

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 [...]

Reading CMYK Percentages

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 [...]