Goodbye JPEG – hello WEBP?

Goodbye JPEG – hello WEBP?

Google is introducing a new open-source image format: "WebP" (pronounced ‘weppy’).Google claims that images in the WebP image format will be close to 40 percent smaller than JPEG files while providing for images that are of higher quality by virtua...

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To linearize your CtP plates or not? Part four.

To linearize your CtP plates or not? Part four.

Scenarios“We’ve always done it this way!” or “This way works just fine!” Even when we have the time to think about how or why we do things a certain way, our thoughts are often clouded by that kind of thinking. However, it can make it easier ...

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To linearize your CtP plates or not? Part three.

To linearize your CtP plates or not? Part three.

Some definitionsThese definitions are not "official" however they are useful to keeping the issues and discussions clear.A "plate curve" is a tone reproduction curve that is applied in the workflow to a plate in order to have it render tone values that...

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To linearize your CtP plates or not? Part two.

To linearize your CtP plates or not? Part two.

In a film to plate workflow, linear film is exposed to the plate in a vacuum frame. The function of the plate exposure is to reproduce the halftone dots in the film as consistently as possible across the surface of the plate, and perhaps more important...

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Portable Digital LED Precision Scale for $11 + free shipping

Portable Digital LED Precision Scale for $11 + free shipping

Meritline.com offers this Portable Digital LED Precision Scale, model no. APTP445, for $11.09. With free shipping, that's $4 under our mention from May and the lowest total price we could find by $3. Features include 1.1" backlit LCD screen, maximum l...

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To linearize your CtP plates or not? Part one.

To linearize your CtP plates or not? Part one.

A bit of backgroundBack in the old film to plate days the standard prepress procedure was to linearize film output. That means a specific tone request in the original file results in halftone dot in the film equal to the file tone request. So, for exam...

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