Should I use RGB or CMYK for my artwork? Will our company logo be the right color with sRGB or do I need ICC profiles? Will my hardcopy look better with blue-noise or with stochastic halftoning?
The Symposium on Electronic Imaging, January 23-28 in San Jose will provide the answers. Short courses on document imaging will cover a range of topics including elementary color science, image quality factors in color reproduction, and optical document security. "Over the years the conference on Color Imaging: Device Independent Color, Color Hardcopy, and Graphic Arts has become the world's most prestigious conference on this subject and is a cornerstone of the Symposium. Electronic Imaging 2000 will have a day and a half of short courses on Color Imaging Sunday and Monday followed by four days of papers Tuesday through Friday. The presenters include the best specialists from all over the world," said Rich Ellson of Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, a member of the EI Symposium Organizing Committee.
The Symposium on Electronic Imaging is cosponsored by the IS&T--the Society for Imaging Science and Technology, and SPIE--The International Society for Optical Engineering. Since its inception in 1989, Electronic Imaging has been based in the Bay Area. After starting out in Santa Clara, the two societies moved the conference to the San Jose Convention Center in 1991 where it has continued to both grow in size and evolve in subject matter. This year a total of 962 papers will be presented in 24 conferences, and the organizers expect 1500 technical attendees. "Understanding the emerging interests of Silicon Valley imaging professionals has helped make this symposium a very rapid means of communicating important new ideas, training people in new imaging disciplines, and building a community for moving technologies further" says EI 2000 Symposium Chair Giordano Beretta of Hewlett-Packard in Palo Alto.
"In the past year we have seen a revolution in document imaging, moving beyond electronic publishing, where electronic imaging was used separately in each stage of the workflow. Today we talk of digital publishing, an integrated process that is fully digital from end to end. At any time, a color piece can be repurposed for an arbitrary output medium without quality loss or manual intervention. In addition, spectral color imaging and advanced color management techniques open a whole new world to system builders" explains Gabriel Marcu of Apple Computer in Cupertino, one of the Conference Chairs.
Other areas covered by the symposium and of interest to the color imaging community are capture and display, human vision, document recognition, optical security and anti-counterfeiting, and Internet imaging.
Electronic Imaging 2000 will be held a the San Jose Convention Center from January 23-28, 2000. Complete course and instructor descriptions as well as registration information can be found on-line at http://www.spie.org/info/ei/courses
Do not miss EI 2000
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