March, 2001 | CreativePro Network

For Position Only: Xerox Plays Catch Up

My husband and I were wondering the other day whether or not “Xerox” — either the brand or the informal verb — would be part of our 3-year-old daughter’s lexicon when she grows up. Unfortunately, I suspect not. By now most of us know the saga of Xerox PARC, the esteemed research center in Palo […]

Epson Stylus Pro on a (24-inch) Roll

Epson made its first splash in the large-format market in 1999 with the Stylus Pro 9000 inkjet printer, placing its battle-tested 1,440-dpi DX3 print head (the same one used in the Stylus Pro 5000) into a model that could print on a range of media as wide as 44 inches. The Stylus Pro 9000 made […]

The Darkroom Makes a Comeback (Part 2)

In the first installment of this two-part article, we made the case for turning down the lights in computer editing rooms for graphic artists and photographers who need more-accurate color. Getting your workspace right for color-accurate situations may also require toning down the colors of walls, counters, and even monitor desktop color schemes. In this […]

The Mac Authority: Become an Indie Film Director with iMovie 2

Application: iMovie 2 Operating system: Mac OS 9.0.4 or later Apple Computer is recognized worldwide as an innovator in the industry. After all, they pretty much single-handedly brought the graphic user interface, the mouse and the CD-ROM to the marketplace. But over the last few years they’ve been quietly finishing three pieces of the puzzle […]

Notes From the Epicenter: Soul Searching in San Francisco

Last night I went to a bar in downtown San Francisco to meet a number of journalists I used to work with. On the way inside, I passed through a somber knot of patrons chain smoking in the heated atrium the proprietors had set up to get around California’s ban on smoking in bars. It […]

Design Doyenne: Design Locally, Impact Globally

Dear Pamela, After being dazzled by the bright design lights of London in my previous missives, I’m happy to be back home. I’ve been thinking about how design transcends borders and that often the most interesting things are found in the most unlikely places. Case in point: Scott Clum’s Ride Studio boasts an international reputation […]

Bit by Bit: Photo Restoration Made Easy

About three years ago I was invited to New York to see a new scanner made by Nikon. The scanner — the Nikon Super Coolscan LS2000 — was the first commercial product to incorporate technology invented by Applied Science Fiction (ASF). It was to be the first of numerous impressive encounters I’ve had with ASF […]