Pantone has began shipping the ColorMunki Create software-&-hardware bundle for monitor calibration and colour palette creation. Selling for a lower price than the ColorMunki Design version, it pairs the same ColorMunki Create software with an Eye-one monitor calibrator. Slightly confusingly, this is included instead of the ColorMunki Design's innovative monitor, printer and colour capture device that's become known as the ColorMunki.
Pantone has announced two new products that extend the Pantone Goe System: Pantone GoeBridge coated and Pantone Color Cue 2.1. Pantone GoeBridge lets creatives visualise and evaluate how the more than 2,000 solid colours in the Pantone Goe System will reproduce in CMYK on coated paper.
Electronics giant Samsung has been slapped with a lawsuit alleging that it "rigs" its printers to tell users falsely that they need to replace their ink cartridge even if there is plenty of toner left.
Alien Skin Software has released Blow Up 2, the new version of its photo resizing plug-in for Photoshop. The company says that Blow Up 2 takes the complexity out of preparing photos for printing with a user interface that intelligently handles resizing, cropping, and sharpening.
XChange International released OpenNow Pro, Bookletizer and MediaBoxXT XTensions for QuarkXPress 8.
No 1U, two-socket rack server bests Apple's Xserve in its price range. No two-socket Intel desktop can touch the MacBook Pro for its combination of durability, efficiency, expandability, and quiet operation.
A photo organizer and an impressive photo editor in one, Adobe's £175 plus VAT Photoshop Lightroom 2.0 adds new editing tools that extend the scope of Lightroom's familiar environment.
BBC Sport's Olympics coverage has begun in earnest, with the unveiling of its animated marketing campaign and titles, created by Jamie Hewlett, the artist behind Tank Girl and Gorillaz.
Mozilla patched three critical vulnerabilities in Firefox 3.0 this week, including a Mac-specific bug reported by Apple, not just two as originally reported.
P22 has announced Stern, a new 16-point metal and digital type design by artist and craftsman Jim Rimmer.
A new multimedia campaign for Converse combines the talents of Pharrell William, N.E.R.D., Julian Casablancas, and Santogold, who have produced an exclusive track.
The ICA's newly opened exhibition, A Recent History of Writing and Drawing, boasts one of the more unusual creatives on the London scene: Viktor, a wall-drawing machine.
‘If You Could’ has teamed up with G&B Printers to bring you the ‘If you could do anything tomorrow, what would it be?’ Diary 2009.
News International's Al Trivino and Gordon Beckett, the Sunday Times' head of design, have unveiled the first full-colour design for the paper in its 186-year history.
Datacolor has reduced the price for its Spyder3 range of calibration products. The Spyder3Elite is reduced in price from £149 to £133 while Spyder3Print is reduced by £60 to £216. All prices exclude VAT.
Motorola and Kodak on Monday launched the ZN5, a new candy bar-style mobile phone with a 5.0-megapixel camera, the first device from its new Zine line.
Microspot has introduced a free and easy-to-use application for editing and printing 3DS and Google SketchUp models, 3D Toolbox for Macs.
HP has released an LED-based 24-inch monitor aimed at creative professionals who want to know that the colours they see on a screen will be the exact same colours that appear on a printer or movie screen.
Epson has launched the 24-inch Stylus Pro 7900 and 44-inch Stylus Pro 9900. Both feature an improved ink formulation, a new printer mechanism and a raft of new technologies to make them ideal for production and contract proofing, as well as the highest quality fine-art and photographic applications, according to the company.
Welsh printers Cambrian Printers has won the Robert Horne Shout Award for best environmental printing, for its catalogue for urban wear company Howies. It is the only Welsh printer to win such an award.