Last month I attended the American Packaging Summit in Chicago. It’s a really interesting and different kind of event. Brands of all sizes attend to network, hear about emerging technologies, and talk with vendors in the industry about specifics. Alder Color Solutions sponsored the event this year and I had…
by Bill Owen – Alder Color Solutions Alder Color Solutions is proud to share this success story about our client Parrott Printing in Knoxville, Tennessee. We were able to demo PrintFactory with Parrott Printing and prove out the benefit of transitioning from another competitor’s RIP. Using a Barbieri LFP QB,…
Investigating the differences (primarily GCR) between the 2 ICC profiles IDEAlliance released in August of 2021 in their updated ECG Characterization Target and Kit. By Dan Gillespie – Alder Color Solutions – Director of Technical Services As part of the “Idealliance ECG Beta Characterization Data Set File” download there are…
By Bill Owen – Alder Color Solutions – Senior Color Technician Are you still using an Idealliance Control Strip for color verification? Maybe an old one from 2009 or 2013? Did you know that there’s a newer/better control strip you can use? Let’s review….. The ChromaChecker CC84 control strip and…
By Bill Owen – Alder Color Solutions – Senior Color Technician Have you ever needed to quickly adjust your press curves but don’t have time to do a time consuming and costly “dedicated press run”? There is a way to do just that! Let me show you. I’d like to…
The New Color Match Functionality in ChromaChecker Capture – by Dan Gillespie This new Color Match functionality in ChromaChecker Capture software works so well, it’s crazy how accurate, quick and easy it is. In this blog, I’ll walk you through the steps. Launch Capture v3 and choose QuickChecker across the…
Using Virtual Spot Print in ChromaChecker – by Dan Gillespie This question is asked all the time… Can you match X-color? Most people simply can’t answer correctly, although they might automatically say yes, because they just don’t know. But that’s only because they don’t know how quick and easy they…
by Bill Owen – Senior Color Technician – Alder Color Solutions As a color expert who’s been in the printing business for over 40 years, I often ponder this possibility. Could my job be taken over by AI? Probably not before I retire, but at the pace it’s advancing, maybe…
Benefits of the Alder Press Control bundle It’s Tuesday, January 2nd, and I’m diving into 2024 with my first blog post of the year. I thought I’d share a success story from an installation we did last month with our Alder Press Control package. Custom Printing in Oxnard, CA has…
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