November 2, 2009 – 4:22 pm
We will be having an ‘official’ social meeting of the MN Digi Techs on November 3rd at 5:30pm at Grumpy’s NE so come and get social. It a great opportunity to “talk shop” and network with other techs and industry professionals. Website: http://www.grumpys-bar.com/nordeast/index.html Map to Grumpy’s NE
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 [...]
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 [...]
September 22, 2009 – 6:38 pm
Well, I thought it was about time to post some scientific ideas regarding monitor calibration, specifically luminance. Luminance for monitors is measured in cd/m^2 in your monitor calibration software. I usually use the value 120 cd/m^2 when calibrating Apple Cinema displays. I’ll get into why I use this number later but first some background and [...]
August 20, 2009 – 7:32 pm
Hello! from the trenches of Tech world… So this next tibit Im going to share with you could be quite useful on your next job. Have you ever arrived on a job to find that C1 Pro 4 has been customized by the previous tech using the machine so that you can not find (easily) [...]
August 14, 2009 – 9:32 am
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I hope you all have been having a wonderful summer and I hope you can join us for our next meeting Thursday Aug 6th at 6:30. The meeting will be hosted at The Lab Digital Production and Workprint Studios. The Lab – Digital Production LLC Workprint Studios 1618 Central Ave. NE Suite 130 Minneapolis MN 55413 [...]
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Could this guy be the first photo assistant? Photo assistant Marcus Sparling, seated on Roger Fenton’s photographic van, 1855. Fenton used this mobile darkroom to cover the Crimean War for a publishing company with assistance from the British government. Photo from the U.S. Library of Congress Fenton collection. Reposted/quoted from PDN Photo of the Day.
