Jim Raffel

Jim Raffel is a color management consultant who also serves as CEO of ColorCasters, LLC and ColorMetrix Technologies LLC. As a veteran of the printing industry and a graduate of Rochester Institute of Technology’s acclaimed printing management program, in 1995 he formed ColorMetrix to bring an idea he had to make color measurement and evaluation easier by creating easy-to-use software solutions. Today as a certified G7 expert and color management professional, his consulting practice focuses on dye sublimation and flat-bed UV inkjet printing. This work keeps him on the road many weeks each year working with end users and manufacturers to improve their color management processes. He has also been authorized by PRINTING United Alliance to conduct their color management boot camps; in both open venues for anyone to attend and in closed venues for clients and their staff.

Session

Monday, 11:00 a.m. – 11:50 a.m.
Saving Time and Money in Wide Format with Process Control

It’s one thing to dial in your workflow and your color and quite another to keep things running smoothly. In this presentation, you’ll be taken through the process of both verifying color and then repurposing the verification data to do long-term process control. We’ll cover topics from what to measure, when to measure and how to review and analyze the data, focusing on dashboard-type interfaces.