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The Print Geeks: Color Control 101

Highlights of a recent Print Geeks webinar in which resident geeks Jim Raffel and Shelby Sapusek of ColorCasters were joined by contributor Dan Gillespie of Alder Color Solutions to discuss five common areas where color management fails in the world of inkjet printing.

Wednesday, June 23, 2021

On May 4, WhatTheyThink.com launched “Print Geeks” with a webinar to review several common causes of color management failure. Resident geeks Jim Raffel and Shelby Sapusek of ColorCasters were joined by contributor Dan Gillespie of Alder Color Solutions for this session. Richard Romano had the unenviable job of keeping three print geeks on topic and on the clock.

The panelists set out to run through five common areas that color management fails in the world of inkjet printing. Along with presenting the necessary amount of color theory and color management basic knowledge, widely varied experiences from the field were shared by Raffel, Sapusek, and Gillespie.

This article only touches upon the conversation that took place during the webinar. Be sure to watch the recording to catch the lively back and forth between three of the industry’s leading color management print geeks.


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About Shelby Sapusek and Jim Raffel

Shelby Sapusek is a Certified Digital Color Instructor and loves to help brands, marketers and printing companies excel at using color. Jim Raffel is an industry old-timer with a ton of print management, process control and color management experience.

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