Color management blogs.(THE BLOGSMITH)

From: Label & Narrow Web | Date: April 1, 2008| Author: Renton, Peter | Copyright information

For every label printer, managing color is a critical part of the operation. If you can't reproduce color accurately and consistently then you will not stay in business very long. Color management is a very broad topic so I have tried to present a cross section of blogs here for review.

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Jim Raffel (http://jimraffel.com/)

Jim Raffel's blog is "a printing industry blog focusing on color measurement, printing, ink, paper, spectr...

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