Barbieri Color Blog

Back to Barbieri ONFor a special edition of our BarbierON series Viktor had the pleasure to interview Prof. Bruce Myers from Rochester Institute of Technology, Department of Packaging and Graphic Media Science and collect a lot of insights about the educational approach to color management in a variety of printing applications! Color management is a crucial aspect of digital printing and at RIT it is lived and breathed in their courses and seminars. Prof. Myers discusses everything from color calibration to ICC profiling and gave us his view about achieving accurate color reproduction. Grab a coffee sit back and relax and hear Bruce’s insights about how the printing industry changed and how specialty digital printing has come to the forefront!Viktor:  Hi, Bruce. Thank you for having me here at the RIT here in Rochester. I'm here with Professor Bruce Myers. He invited us from Barbieri to present our technology to the students and present our company and our color measurement ...

Back to Barbieri ONDavid Hunter, owner and founder of Pilot Marketing Group Inc and Chromachecker Corp and has 30 plus years of experience in a graphic arts and printing industry. When it comes to accuracy and color measurements, many people know all about measurement technologies, but it's often the little things that easily are forgotten.Let's talk about white backing. David. What is white backing? What do we have to pay attention to?What is white backing?The purpose for the proper white backing is that every paper has a certain amount of translucency, meaning that if light hits the paper, it's going to shine through the paper and an instrument has a light in it, so when an instrument shines on the paper, what's behind the paper greatly affects what's returned into the instrument measurement head. And when you're taking multiple prints on different printers, on different substrates, and you want to know that the prints are close to one another, the effect of the backing, ...

Back to Barbieri ONAndreas Kraushaar is head of prepress department at Fogra and acts as president of the German Color Society. What can you tell us about the FOGRA media wedge and what does process control mean for you? What is process control? The trend we see in those cases is that any industry, sooner or later, faster or slower, move toward an industrial process. That means we try to move from a more visual base to a more objective measurement-based way. And if you have happened to have customers expecting a certain quality, a certain level of color accuracy for spot color matching GRACoL  and or FOGRA, then you are needed, you are requested to print the expected and to double check and going to industrial printing, going more to the industrial way of working this kind of objective report gives you the right fundamental tool to objectify you're doing, to objectify your work. And also a lot of what people do not always explicitly ask for the quality, but those kind of quality ...