X-Rite continues to evolve ColorMunki by listening to our customers and enhancing our color management offerings accordingly–supporting the latest packages such as Corel, QuarkXPress, and Photoshop CS4. Version 1.1 also offers the ability to control lighting conditions under which color is viewed. Like everything else with ColorMunki, we’ve made this pro-like step easy,” states X-Rite Senior VP of Sales and Marketing Iris Mangelschots.

ColorMunki 1.1 Key Advantages: Read the rest of this entry »

Artists get a new digital palette

Workgroup has announced the local availability of Corel’s Painter 11 – an update to Corel’s digital painting and illustration program which has been designed specifically around customer and user requests.

“Since its inception, Painter has set a standard in painting and illustration software,” says Kevin George, Corel product manager at Workgroup. “With version 11, artists can now expand their digital toolset with advanced painting and natural media tools. Read the rest of this entry »

The quest for consistent color rendition across all input and output devices (from your monitor to your printer, for example) has been going on since the introduction of color to the desktop. In the late 1990s, the introduction of ColorSync, the Mac’s color-management framework, and the availability of professional-level calibration hardware and software such as the Colortron, got more people thinking about the multiple issues surrounding consistent color across the design workflow.

Color management has always had a bit of a voodoo associated with it. Unfortunately, managing color is not as simple as specifying a color for a given pixel and having your intent carried out across all input and output devices. Indeed, the physical functioning of the two primary components—the monitor and the printer—are markedly different. Read the rest of this entry »

Event Logistics

• Starts: Oct 4, 2009 08:30
• Ends: Oct 7, 2009 18:00
• Timezone: (GMT-8) Pacific Time (US & Canada)
• Location: Los Angeles, CA
• Geography: North America
• Info/Registration: CLICK HERE

Event Description

MAX 2009 is an extraordinary opportunity to learn new skills, explore emerging technologies, and connect with thousands of other industry leaders, Adobe products users, and Adobe teams. Read the rest of this entry »

Quark has announced the release of QuarkXPress 8.1, an update available as a free download to existing users.

The QuarkXPress 8.1 update improves PDF output capabilities and introduces features that make the page layout process even more intuitive and productive says Quark.

Additionally, QuarkXPress 8.1 introduces a ‘Native Transparency’ mode for creating PDFs, which can offer designers faster and more flexible PDF output support and provide greater control over the PDF workflow process. Read the rest of this entry »

For years, Microsoft had it easy. The two busiest groups within the software behemoth were the accountants, adding up all the billions in profits, and the CD/DVD burning team, which simply had to burn more copies of Windows and Office to keep up with demand.

Today, life is a little less rosy for Microsoft, as it calls out in its recent 10-K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. As TechFlash highlights, Google Android is now called out by Microsoft as a competitor, as are Apple, Opera, and Google in browsers, whereas only Mozilla was deemed worthy of Microsoft’s competitive glare in 2008. Read the rest of this entry »

Austin, TX (Vocus/PRWEB ) August 1, 2009 — Emerging display technologies offer alternative performance, cost, design and business models to mainstream display technologies available today. From touch screens, flexible displays, OLED displays, epaper displays to pocket projectors and 3D displays, it’s important to explore how new display technologies can bring innovative form factors, attractive visual performance, power savings and potentially drive growth in the near future. The DisplaySearch Emerging Display Technologies Conference: Innovation for the Next Wave of Growth, which will be held on September 3, 2009 in San Jose, California, will bring together representatives from all facets of the display supply chain to discuss the status of emerging technologies, as well as provide a forum for discussing how new display technologies can drive Read the rest of this entry »

X-Rite, Incorporated (NASDAQ: XRIT), the world leader in color management, measurement and communication technologies, and its wholly owned subsidiary Pantone, the global authority on color and provider of professional color standards for the design industries, today announced plans for the upcoming Print 09 trade show (booth #6939, McCormick Place South, Chicago, IL, September 11-16 2009). The companies will unveil new products and demonstrate how latest X-Rite/Pantone line of design, prepress and print solutions can help customers achieve their color everywhere, fast. Read the rest of this entry »