Universal Type Server review
Universal Type Server is a font-management system that aims to make things easy for small design studios, while providing a huge amount of flexibility for big companies.
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Konica Minolta Magicolor 8650DN review
The Magicolor 8650 is an A3 colour laser printer with exceptionally high-grade output that would make an ideal proofer for many design studios.
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Spyder3Elite review
The Spyder3Elite eschews the trend for multi-device calibration, in favour of a higher-grade of monitor calibration. It has some innovations of its own, but overall it’s essentially an upgraded version of the Spyder2.
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Pantone Goe review
Goe is the first entirely new colour-specification system from Pantone since it first introduced its Pantone Matching System (PMS) in 1963. It provides a completely new set of 2,058 solid colours – almost double the 1,114 of PMS.
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Phantasm CS Designer/Studio review
Phantasm CS adds Photoshop-style adjustment tools and functionality to Illustrator’s, including standard gradients, meshes, filters and effects.
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Pantone ColorMunki review
With the ColorMunki Design Pantone is trying to make colour more exciting. It’s a winning mix of cute hardware and ludicrously easy-to-use software with a unique mix of colour tools.
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CorelDraw Graphics Suite X4 review
The Graphics Suite X4 bundle combines vector artwork design, page layout and image editing in a single package that costs around a third of Adobe’s equivalent package.
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RealVue3D review
Pre-press hard proofing is a pain, involving time, effort, expense and, all too often, frustration at inconclusive results. Anything that helps is to be welcomed with open arms.
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Colour Confidence Profiler review
The Colour Confidence Profiler is the first system to offer profiling of both inkjet and laser printers for around £500. It combines the Eye-One Pro spectrophotometer ...
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Creative3D review
Creative3D provides an affordable way to create lenticular images for printed output, which are currently being used for anything from magazine covers from the likes of Empire and Wallpaper* to animated posters on bus-stops and vending machines.
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Designjet Z3100 review
HP’s new range of 24- and 44-inch photo printers bring some innovative ideas to the large format market and are capable of producing some cracking prints.
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Exilim EX-Z1050 review
The appearance of a sleek shooter that snaps 10-megapixel photos for under £200 is enough to make even the most jaded creative do a double take.
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dvd940i review
HP’s dvd940i is essentially a rebadged Lite-On LH-18A1P – though it’s also available inside a USB 2.0-driven external unit.
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Stylus Pro 3800 review
Epson’s new Stylus Pro 3800 fills a gap in Epson’s range between the A3+ Stylus Photo R2400 and the heavier-duty A2+ Stylus Pro 4800.
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Quark Print Collection review
Quark Print Collection is based on impositioning technology developed by A Lowly Apprentice Productions (ALAP) – which Quark acquired at the end of 2005.
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Acrobat 8 Professional review
Adobe Acrobat is not the kind of product that sets the designer’s pulse racing. However, an upgrade that promises improved preflighting and automatic fixing of some PDF problems can only enhance your working life.
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Bravo SE DVD/CD review
The Bravo SE Disc Publisher is the smallest and least expensive of Primera’s range of DVD duplication and printing systems, about the size and shape of a foot spa.
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Pitstop Professional 7 review
Enfocus PitStop is a publishing mainstay, and its PDF checking is central to publishing workflows throughout the industry. Version 7 can analyze file attributes, as well as pure content.
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Stitcher 5.5 review
RealViz Stitcher is a flexible and easy-to-use program for assembling seamless panoramas and ‘immersive’ images from multiple overlapping photographs.
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Magicolor 7450 review
Konica Minolta’s latest laser printer may look like a 1970s Soviet housing project, but a few niggles aside, the quality of its output will satisfy many designers.