Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Live from Print China... Well Almost.

I write from to you from our offices in Hong Kong. Over the weekend we visited Print China 2011 in Dongguan, China. I was blown away by the sheer size of the show and the quality of the Chinese products being offered. From consumables and presses, to software and services. If it had to do with printing it was there. Traditionally these shows have been dominated by companies around the world. And the Chinese products were second to products from other countries. However, things are changing. I'm not saying there's no room for improvement, this trip has changed my mind on what made in China means.

Another thing that surprised me was how warm people were. Not many spoke English. But everyone made a true effort to try to understand me. When I told them I lived in America, they all had good things to say.

At 6'7", I towered over most people at the show. Specially the locals. People kept taking pictures of me everywhere. On the first day of the show, it seemed I kept running into a police officer everywhere I turned. Then he pulled out his camera. That's when I called him and told him we should take our picture together.
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Something else that I found very interesting is how much people were talking about G7. Obviously, all the booth that had to do with printing were printing G7 targets. What was surprising was to see manufacturers of digital and conventional presses do the same thing.

Now that I'm back in Hong Kong and with access to blogger I'm able to post my experiences.

Print China 2011

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Color Management in Express Label Print

As you probably know, Compose Label Print is the software behind the OKI 510DW Color Web Press. Express Label Print makes it very easy for users to select and organize their label runs.
Because of the diversity of media and simulation profiles available, our customers have been asking us to create a video showing how to install an ICC profile on the Express RIP. And once installed, how to configure ColorPro inside of the RIP.

On this video, Michael Jahn walks us through the necessary steps to install an ICC profile, how to create a ColorPro setup and finally how to implement this setup in your Page Setup.




If you have any questions about this video, please email us at support@composeusa.com

Saturday, March 12, 2011

How to Backup and restore your Compose Harlequin Express RIP

One of the most common support calls we get is from customers who for one reason or another, need to re-install their RIP. 99.9% of the time they do not have a backup of their settings. Meaning that to restore their RIP, we need to configure it from scratch. This often means doing film and press calibrations all over again.

Wanting to help you be prepared in case of you have to go through this, Michael Jahn walks us through the necessary steps of backing up and restoring your Compose Express RIP.



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