Color management workshop

Photographer Don Clark and I will be part of a panel discussion on color management and how the process is everyone's concern at a newspaper, as we have shown here at SMG.

The workshop is being sponsored by the New England Newspaper Operations Association, which is part of NENA (New England Newspapers Association). It is being held on Wednesday, May 14, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Worcester, MA, from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

This workshop cuts across all departments because all departments have a stake in good color quality. We hope to attract photographers, anyone who tones images (advertising artists and paginators, for example), plateroom workers and press personnel.

The panel includes people with extensive knowledge in color management and process control. Besides me and Don, panelists include the technical service manager from Flint Ink, Dan Goodenow, who had a role in our color calibration, and Ben Allen, the systems manager at the Concord, N.H., Monitor, who has a deep background in color quality.

Click here for more information about the workshop.

Paul Briand

Change made to scorecard

After discussion, we have changed the quality scorecard effective March 1 to reflect changes in the Post-Press finish times for Monday-Saturday and Sunday. Each has been moved up a half hour, so that the deadline to finish Monday through Saturday is now 2:30 a.m. and the deadline for Sunday is 3:00.

A score of 100 will be awarded to those runs that finish on or before 2:30 and 3:00 respectively, then points deducted for the minutes that pass beyond deadlines.

This was done as a reflection of two considerations: 1) The growth of contracted products we are now delivering out of our Lighthouse distribution business requires an earlier need for the Herald and 2) our improved throughput on the insert machine that has consistently shown our ability to finish on or before 2:30 for the daily and on or before 3:00 for the Sunday.

Paul