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How Color Choices Affect Printing Costs

Posted by Roger P. Gimbel, EDP on Mar 8, 2021 2:05:43 PM

The story of color is changing. An overenthusiastic use of loud, bright hues in recent years has, ironically, dulled their impact. Perhaps we’re all yearning for more mellow, calming

experiences, or perhaps we simply want a visual change. Whatever the actual reasons, design trends are shifting to a more muted, less vibrant color palette.

With that in mind, let’s consider how the printing process can affect color choices and see how to use color cost-effectively without reducing its visual appeal. Besides the amount of ink needed to print a brochure or a wine label, crucial elements such as the number of colors, and the paper or other substrates on which the images are printed, have a great effect.

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Topics: paper, news, color inks, color, Pantone, consumption, ink, PMS, printing costs

???? Questions Printers Wish Designers Would Ask ????

Posted by Roger P. Gimbel, EDP on Apr 2, 2020 2:21:59 PM

Printers understand about the impact printed items can have on people. Interacting with print involves multiple human senses including smell, touch, and hearing-besides the visual aspect. Designers that concentrate mainly on digital mediums may not realize how to get the best results from their printed projects. They don’t know what they don’t know

Printing can involve complicated and exacting specifications that creative people must take into consideration during the design process. Informed designers working closely with printers will produce the most desirable outcome. Dialogs that begin with the questions below create favorable collaborations.

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Topics: paper, creative, news, digital printing, presses, designers, printing, colors, proof

Can Legacy Applications Jumpstart Your Inkjet Success?

Posted by Roger P. Gimbel, EDP on Jul 28, 2017 2:23:19 PM
Inkjet Platforms Bring a New Level of Customization, Impact, & Effectiveness 
 
High speed color inkjet can revolutionize a printing business, but printers won’t realize the most beneficial impacts of this technology by simply moving print from one platform to another. Profiting from inkjet requires effort in three separate areas of the workflow: data, print output, and finishing.
 
Though inkjet may bring new business to  a print service provider, most jobs processed on a new inkjet platform, at least in the beginning, are legacy applications. Printers developed these existing print jobs using then-current methods and technology. The legacy work is almost always a mixed bag of formats and processes. Print service providers will need to spend time on normalization and standardization as they prepare to introduce new inkjet platforms to their operations.
 
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Topics: variable data printing, digital print, data analytics, inkjet technology, paper

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