Category: Creative Systems

Strong growth and leadership development at Commercial Business services specialist and Queen’s Award for Enterprise winner Commercial today announces that it closed its 2017 accounts with a run rate in excess of £70m, 40 percent up on the … Read more

Commercial wins Queen's Award Commercial has won a Queen’s Awards for Enterprise, in the Sustainable Development category. The Queen’s Awards are the UK’s most prestigious business accolade. Commercial’s win recognises outstanding achievements … Read more

Commercial ramps-up volunteer scheme Commercial has extended its volunteering scheme ten-fold in a move that will release 300 work-days per year for charities, organisations and causes that its employees care about. Previously, the company set … Read more

How you, yes you, can save our planet Twenty years ago, if a company truly wanted to go green and show off its environmentally conscious creds, it meant a massive financial investment too. But these days, it’s a lot easier and a lot less … Read more

Did the gotcha getcha? How often have we been prepared to hand out a stiff telling-off to a mobile phone company, or a utility provider, or a car dealer, only to find the wind disappear from our sails as soon as the old red tape comes out and … Read more

A plea for a common ‘language’ in colour management software menus Colour management is a maturing technology, based on the International Color Consortium (ICC) specifications. Most graphic arts software uses ICC colour management to control the … Read more

Managing colour in a wide format workflow A rip is not a workflow! The wide format rips from the usual vendors are not always a complete workflow system. While most cover the production requirements of the wide format market, tiling, cutter … Read more

We ignore or remove ICC profiles It has been said that a digital image without a profile is like buying a burger from a dodgy burger van; is it beef, lamb, dog or horse? Who knows? A profile attached to an image is what gives it colour meaning … Read more

New ISO printing standards, OBAs and papers For the last few years the International Standards Organisation, the ISO TC130 international committee, which develops all the printing industry related standards, ISO 12647, 12646, 3664, etc, has been … Read more

Is this the biggest colour management issue facing printers? There are many colour management issues, but the one that comes up time and again, even from printers with a good colour managed workflow, is the management of colour within PDFs … Read more