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More Accurate Color Capture and Correction

If you rely on digital photography, you’ll appreciate X-Rite’s new ColorChecker Passport: a set of passport-sized, travel-friendly notebooks containing every possible color target (or swatch) imaginable.

Included in the set is a White Balance Target which lets you correctly set the white balance on your camera, a neutral gray target, a Creative Enhancement Target set (four [...]

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Why Get a Laser Printer?

A good PostScript laser printer costs as little as $299 (for example, the Brother HL-5370DWT) but a good inkjet printer costs the same or less. So why buy a laser printer?
Here are two reasons:

Prints from a laser printer cost much less than from an inkjet prnter — only about 2¢ per page when you add [...]

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Replacement Pages for Pantone Chip Books

Hyatts sells replacement pages for almost any recent Pantone chip book, priced at $3.75-$7.50 each.
They offer volume discounts on 40 pages or more.

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Discover Luxurious Paper at Gmund

If you’re a paper aficionado or if you’ve never experienced the joy of using handmade papers, gorgeous note pads, and the like, check out the Gmund Boutique website. There, you can discover the world of luxury writing papers, matching envelopes, booklets, greeting cards, and even golden notebooks.
Gmund papers are proclaimed “the world’s finest” and produced [...]

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