Through the licensing agreement with X-Rite, HP’s support and engineering teams will be equipped with i1Profiler software and i1Pro spectrophotometers to create standard ICC profiles to embed into all HP Scitex printers and to additionally provide their customers with custom ICC profiles needed for their specific wide-format color-critical production environments.

X-Rite released its i1Publish range of colour management products as an upgrade to all of its previous software solutions, such as MonacoProfiler and ProfileMaker. The new system is a break with the past, though, and after having tested the software I cannot but conclude it’s not always a successful break at that.

Soft proofing is about simulating how an image will appear on another device than your monitor — such as a printer — by using only a computer monitor. This can be a helpful tool for making more predictable prints and is perhaps one of the most useful applications of colour management.

ICC DeviceLink profiles contain a colour transformation from an initial device colour space directly into a second device colour space, e.g. from a scanner to a printer. basICColor dragLINK and LINKflow make using DeviceLinks easy and allow users to save time in the process.

X-Rite and Pantone jointly announced and released a new colour management / colour measurement system with some innovative features. Two versions were released: ColorMunki Design and ColorMunki Photo. Pantone sent me one of the first ColorMunki Design systems available. I’ll receive a ColorMunki Photo later on. The differences between the two systems are entirely attributable [...]

Pantone, soon to become a 100% subsidiary of X-Rite, has released a completely new spot colour system, Pantone Goe. 45 years after the launch of the first Pantone Matching System (PMS) for spot colours, the company thought it was about the right time to create a new, cross-media ready spot colour system. Pantone Goe is [...]

Commercial photographers and large photo studios need to be able to manage their printing workflow and set up colour profiles that manage ink limiting and basically control the printer’s inks individually. ProofMaster 3.x is a Raster Image Processor (RIP) that does this and more. It is said to be the best RIP available, and we [...]

basICColor catch 3 is Color Solutions’ colorimetric and densitometric measurement application. It uses a simple approach to measuring in that it provides you with a large number of measurement sets for many colour profiling needs and measurement devices. However, catch 3 also allows you to set up your own measurement options for one of the [...]

EFI and X-Rite announce a breakthrough solution for prepress professionals, publishers, and creatives in production environments. Ideal for those who need to constantly measure test charts and update color management profiles, the combination of EFI’s Bestcolor-driven Colorproof XF highly scalable and versatile client/server-based software and X-Rite’s new Eye-One iSis, the precise, automated spectral chart reader, [...]