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Automated Preflight and Photo Toning
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Kansas City, Missouri
Joe McKinnon – Cox Ohio Publishing
Image toning system – BluMunKee
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Cox Ohio Situation Analysis
• Complexity– 4 Daily Newspapers
– 5 Weekly Newspapers
– 4,200 images per week
– Multiple image workflows
• Doing the wrong things right– Photographers toning editorial images
– Advertising personnel toning images
– Dedicated personnel toning images
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Cox Ohio Situation Analysis
Inconsistent Photo Toning– Over 80 individuals handling images– Another 20 or so photographers– At least 5 different geographic locations– Monitor calibration– Several versions of Photoshop– Variety of Photoshop knowledge
• Keyless Press
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Project Goals
• Automation
• Reliability
• Cost
• Ease of use
• Vendor Support
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Color Correction Systems
• Photoshop
• Asura
• BluMunKee
• BluMunKee PDF workflow
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Equipment
• Installation Date– December 2002
• Hardware– 2 Xservers primary and backup– 2 G5 Mac Pro Towers primary and backup– 3 G5 Mac Pro Towers, (QC stations)– 1 G5 Mac Pro Tower, (PDF workflow)– 1 G5 Mac Pro Tower, (PDF QC station)
• Software– BluMunKee Image Lightning, and Image Thunder– Adobe Photoshop CS2– FileMaker Pro 7– Mac OS X 10.4.7 and Mac OS X 10.4.7 Server
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What factors influenced our decision
• Existing relationship with Avail Technologies
• On site support and development – in-house expertise
• The ability to Beta test onsite
• Cost
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How Coxohio Utilizes Photo Correction Software
Fully automated editorial workflow– Photographers touch-up photo– Name the photo and drop it into SCC photo
archive– All editorial photos are sent through the
BluMunKee servers, automatically processed, and sent to the DTI data base
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How Coxohio Utilizes Photo Correction Software
Operator Assisted Advertising Workflow– Artists drop photos into one of several “drop
folders.”• 12-15 separate folders
– Photos are routed to a QC workstation where an operator will crop and submit the photo to BluMunKee for correction
– Photo comes back to operator, who releases it to DTI
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What Do We Use BluMunKee for?
• Color Correction
• Sharpening
• Total Ink Limit
• Transfer curve
• Photo Correction of PDF files
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Realized Savings/Improvements
• Reduced staffing
• Consistent Quality
• Control over the process
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Real World Performance
Positives• Totally automated on the Editorial side• Still work to be done on the Advertising side• Solid vendor support• Reliable• Ease of use• Individual drop folders• Reporting
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Real World Performance
Not-so Positives
• Still need work automating Advertising
• Does not handle bad images well
• Errors are not handled well
• Limited tools to fix challenging photos
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Questions