Monday, January 16, 2012
Happy Martin Luther King Day
Hello everyone and happy Martin Luther King day. It is a time for new movement and new consciousness. A time to think about the power of the word, both spoken and printed, in the world. Weather passionately plead to crowds of millions or printed and nailed to the doors of injustice, the word as an instrument of change persists. We here at focus ink honor Dr. King and his continued legacy. Share some words of your own.
Friday, January 6, 2012
Discharge printing!
Focus Ink has added discharge printing to our screen printing arsenal. This is a process that allows us to bleach out an image rather than applying ink. Advantages include the new modern look, and an image that cannot crack, peel or face. We will post an image on out facebook page for you.
New Designer on Staff
We are pleased to start the new year with a welcome to Andrew Lyman as our new graphic designer. He brings with him media skills to foster our online presence better.
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Today at Focus
Hi ! Michelle here, I stopped in at Focus on my way to the embroidery shop to see what was going on. There is always something! I love going through some of the orders and jobs that are ready to pick up by customers. Besides business cards and such there are always cool things that people have had printed or screen printed for business or family purposes. Really good ideas too.
I will be back tomorrow to do an on-line digitizing class so I can learn more about working with designs for embroidery and I'm really excited about it! Embroidery is fun and a great way to add a personal touch to shirts, polo's, hats and items such as baby blankets and towels or aprons for your favorite cook or grill master!
If you have a shower, family reunion, birthday, anniversary or any other celebration call Nancy to see how we can help you personalize your event!
I will be back tomorrow to do an on-line digitizing class so I can learn more about working with designs for embroidery and I'm really excited about it! Embroidery is fun and a great way to add a personal touch to shirts, polo's, hats and items such as baby blankets and towels or aprons for your favorite cook or grill master!
If you have a shower, family reunion, birthday, anniversary or any other celebration call Nancy to see how we can help you personalize your event!
Thursday, June 9, 2011
RGB and CMYK and HSB, Oh My!
Dear Nancy,
I've just gotten a new logo, with two colors. The blue is: RGB: 0,118, 192, and the CMYK is 100,46,0,0. What is the HSB? (its 203,100,75, but what the heck does that mean?) The green is RGB 0,81,47. CYK 100,0,81,66 and HSB 155,100,32.
Do you know if these are standard PMS colors or not?
Dear Reader,
Thank you for asking this important question.
If they are RGB or CMYK or HSB, they are by definition NOT Pantone colors. RGB is about the color dots on your monitor that are red-green-blue. Miraculously these form an amazing range of colors... but not colors you can print. Inks will never match what you see on the screen.
CMYK uses 4 colors: cyan-magenta-yellow-black. Your monitor interprets these and puts them in a RGB space, but you can consistently reproduce these colors with ink. By definition, these are NOT Pantone colors.
Pantone colors are mixed, specific colors. CMYK can simulate these, but will not be exact.
HSB, hue-saturation-brightness, is another color matching system for monitors (there are several others out there, and new ones being created). I'll get you some more info on this in another post.
I'm a little concerned that one of your colors would be defined as RGB (red, blue, green) and the other as CMYK. This can cause unexpected results in printing. If you open this in Adobe Illustrator, it will warn you as such and ask you to decided which color space you want to use.
If I try to do color separations on an RGB file for my press, the colors are severely off. Printing projects should usually be designed using CMYK.
The bottom line is that when you hire a designer, you need to make sure that they were trained in designing for print or you may have some unpleasant surprises.
I've just gotten a new logo, with two colors. The blue is: RGB: 0,118, 192, and the CMYK is 100,46,0,0. What is the HSB? (its 203,100,75, but what the heck does that mean?) The green is RGB 0,81,47. CYK 100,0,81,66 and HSB 155,100,32.
Do you know if these are standard PMS colors or not?
Dear Reader,
Thank you for asking this important question.
If they are RGB or CMYK or HSB, they are by definition NOT Pantone colors. RGB is about the color dots on your monitor that are red-green-blue. Miraculously these form an amazing range of colors... but not colors you can print. Inks will never match what you see on the screen.
CMYK uses 4 colors: cyan-magenta-yellow-black. Your monitor interprets these and puts them in a RGB space, but you can consistently reproduce these colors with ink. By definition, these are NOT Pantone colors.
Pantone colors are mixed, specific colors. CMYK can simulate these, but will not be exact.
HSB, hue-saturation-brightness, is another color matching system for monitors (there are several others out there, and new ones being created). I'll get you some more info on this in another post.
I'm a little concerned that one of your colors would be defined as RGB (red, blue, green) and the other as CMYK. This can cause unexpected results in printing. If you open this in Adobe Illustrator, it will warn you as such and ask you to decided which color space you want to use.
If I try to do color separations on an RGB file for my press, the colors are severely off. Printing projects should usually be designed using CMYK.
The bottom line is that when you hire a designer, you need to make sure that they were trained in designing for print or you may have some unpleasant surprises.
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Health care is a right!
What is more basic than food, clothing, shelter and medical care. I am a strong proponent of public education as one of these basics... but what about health care?
Most Americans can't get Giffords' therapy
Shot congresswoman's staff urges HHS secretary to push accessibility
Wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is benefiting from world-class treatment in Houston that most Americans don't have access to, and her office knows it.
Her staff on Thursday called on Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to change that, asking her to apply the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in a way that would make similar coverage to what Giffords receives more accessible.
Sebelius and her staff will be defining an "essential benefits" package that insurers participating in insurance exchanges will be required to provide by 2014.
Federal workers' benefits
Giffords currently benefits from broad coverage through federal workers compensation because she was shot in the head Jan. 8 while meeting with constituents in Tucson, Ariz. The type of acute rehabilitation she receives - involving speech, occupational and physical rehab - costs about $8,000 a day, according to the Brain Injury Association of America. Post-acute rehabilitation can range in cost from $600 to $2,500 daily. The expenses leave the treatment options well out of reach for most patients whose insurers won't pay for the services.
While some insurers cover traumatic brain injury treatment, their limits on some rehab services often leave patients stagnant at times when they could be rapidly recovering, advocates say.
To read complete story + comments: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7512258.html
Most Americans can't get Giffords' therapy
Shot congresswoman's staff urges HHS secretary to push accessibility
Wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is benefiting from world-class treatment in Houston that most Americans don't have access to, and her office knows it.
Her staff on Thursday called on Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to change that, asking her to apply the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in a way that would make similar coverage to what Giffords receives more accessible.
Sebelius and her staff will be defining an "essential benefits" package that insurers participating in insurance exchanges will be required to provide by 2014.
Federal workers' benefits
Giffords currently benefits from broad coverage through federal workers compensation because she was shot in the head Jan. 8 while meeting with constituents in Tucson, Ariz. The type of acute rehabilitation she receives - involving speech, occupational and physical rehab - costs about $8,000 a day, according to the Brain Injury Association of America. Post-acute rehabilitation can range in cost from $600 to $2,500 daily. The expenses leave the treatment options well out of reach for most patients whose insurers won't pay for the services.
While some insurers cover traumatic brain injury treatment, their limits on some rehab services often leave patients stagnant at times when they could be rapidly recovering, advocates say.
To read complete story + comments: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7512258.html
Thursday, April 7, 2011
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