Dan Reid

For more than 20 years Dan has provided color management consulting services to many leading brands and print service providers. A G7 Certified Expert since 2006 Dan has helped numerous businesses achieve the merits of G7 print calibration method. Dan is also SGIA Color Management Bootcamp instructor.

Dan’s company helps business maximize their profit potential by decreasing waste, improving efficiency and repeatability for commercial, trade, and grand format and textile printing clients.

Dan keeps on the forefront of digital imaging by serving as a beta test site for many leading software developers in printing, writing for trade publications, speaking at industry trade shows about practical implementation of printing technologies.

Session

Monday, 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Cxf/X-4 and Its Use in Grand Format Printing

Matching spot colors requires a realistic definition of the reference or source color. Traditionally, it could be accomplished using CMYK or LAB, but a more effective approach is CxF/X-4 providing an improved framework for spot colors to be communicated better among different printing technologies. Discover the fundamentals of traditional spot color management and how CxF/X-4 resolves some of the problems inherent in the traditional method. We’ll also cover the tools needed to utilize CxF/X-4 data exchange in popular grand format RIP platforms.