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April 14, 2017

Water Is Life poster

We were honored to be selected by Oregonian photographer John Chao to print his Water Is Life poster. John spent many days at Standing Rock Indian Reservation documenting protesters standing in solidarity to halt the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Two versions were printed using 100% recycled paper on our new Komori press; for more photos see keeplifepure.

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April 10, 2017

2017 PINE print awards

We’re excited to have won seven “Pinnacle” awards in last week’s Printing Industries of New England (PINE) yearly event. The categories and projects are:

Hardcover books: “Helena Blues”
Art books: “A Golden Age of European Art”
Booklets: “Pierpont Morgan’s Study”
Calendars: “Convent of the Sacred Heart”
4-color product catalogs: “Malabrigo Aniversario Book 11”
4-color service catalogs: “Lesley MFA Programs”
Digital Printing: “Food + Future Commons Brand Guide”

We also received eight Awards of Recognition and two Awards of Merit.

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March 31, 2017

Unboxing the new Indigo

Installation for our new Indigo 7900 is in progress. The new press has a spectrophotometer for improved color consistency; “One-Shot” which improves registration on synthetic papers; and a primer station to help with ink adhesion on papers that are not Indigo-certified.

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March 28, 2017

Good press …

Our press foreman checks a sheet from the exhibition book Exploratory Works on the same day as a New York Times article (screen capture; below) describes the exhibit.

New York City rep Zoe Ames pictured at the exhibition opening (bottom); April 14 – July 16 at the Drawing Center museum in New York City.

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March 16, 2017

XCMYK color profiling

We are pleased to have completed our work as a beta site for Idealliance’s new XCMYK expanded gamut color profile. We were chosen for this work because of Idealliance’s confidence in our ability to print accurate, repeatable press sheets using stochastic screening. The new color profile will reflect the broader range of colors achievable on press through stochastic printing and when complete will be used by those printers with the most demanding color requirements.

From Idealliance’s web site:

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January 3, 2017

Komori G40 up and running ….

Our new Komori is now printing beautiful work. The UV ink gamut is greater and as the sheets are dry when they reach the delivery, the press is far more efficient.

The most striking difference is the exceptional results on uncoated paper. The richness and depth of images rival coated printing.

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