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What Lean Means For Printers: Reducing Setups And Makereadies Is Just The Beginning, Malcolm G. Keif Sep 2009

What Lean Means For Printers: Reducing Setups And Makereadies Is Just The Beginning, Malcolm G. Keif

Graphic Communication

Lean, Lean Manufacturing, Lean Principles. What is all this discussion of Lean? And what does it mean to the printer? First, let’s figure out what Lean is. Lean is a set of ideas, concepts, tools, and principles that were developed over a number of years, mostly by Toyota Motor Corp. as the Toyota Production System (TPS). The company developed this system as a means to be competitive in a difficult marketplace against large competitors with greater resources. The values that underpin Lean include: respect for people, continuous improvement, minimizing waste, just-in-time (JIT) production, custom and small-lot production, problem solving, teamwork, …

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Evaluating The Effectiveness Of Widely Available 3-D Visualization Tools In Support Of Public Participation, Laxmi Ramasubramanian, Jennifer L. Weeks, Tim Case Jun 2009

Evaluating The Effectiveness Of Widely Available 3-D Visualization Tools In Support Of Public Participation, Laxmi Ramasubramanian, Jennifer L. Weeks, Tim Case

Publications and Research

There is a persistent need for improved tools and techniques to facilitate public involvement in transportation decision making. Despite continuous improvements in increasing public involvement at all phases of transportation decision making, transportation agencies are still seeking more affordable, accessible, and effective means of communicating with a wide range of stakeholders. The report documents a survey of a wide variety of transportation agencies on their use of interactive 3-D visualization for public involvement using an electronic survey. Supplemental qualitative data was generated through telephone interviews with selected survey participants. It concludes with three case studies illustrating applications of interactive 3-D …

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Hybrid Filmmaking: Using Digital Photography And Compositing Animation To Create "A Story For Stephanie", Joel Brashear Apr 2009

Hybrid Filmmaking: Using Digital Photography And Compositing Animation To Create "A Story For Stephanie", Joel Brashear

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A thesis presented to the faculty of the Caudill College of Humanities at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts by Joel Brashear in April of 2009.

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Green Is Not Really Lean, Kevin Cooper Mar 2009

Green Is Not Really Lean, Kevin Cooper

Graphic Communication

No abstract provided.

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Handling Work Done Outside, Kevin Cooper Jan 2009

Handling Work Done Outside, Kevin Cooper

Graphic Communication

No abstract provided.

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Graduate Record 2009: I Double Bulldawg Dare You!, Southwestern Oklahoma State University Jan 2009

Graduate Record 2009: I Double Bulldawg Dare You!, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

SWOSU Yearbooks

The 2009 Graduate Record was produced by the communications department.

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To The Instruction Cave, Librarian!: Graphic Novels And Information Literacy, Steven Hoover Jan 2009

To The Instruction Cave, Librarian!: Graphic Novels And Information Literacy, Steven Hoover

Library Faculty Research

Information literacy librarians have been known to troll the waters of popular culture for phenomena that are capable of teaching information literacy skills and simultaneously engaging student interest. For these librarians, graphic novels have reached a point where they are too big to ignore.

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The Best Go Back To Basics, Kevin Cooper Dec 2008

The Best Go Back To Basics, Kevin Cooper

Graphic Communication

No abstract provided.

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Don't Let Your Firm Lose Its Soul, Kevin Cooper Nov 2008

Don't Let Your Firm Lose Its Soul, Kevin Cooper

Graphic Communication

No abstract provided.

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What's In Your Concept Tool Cart?, Kevin Cooper Oct 2008

What's In Your Concept Tool Cart?, Kevin Cooper

Graphic Communication

No abstract provided.

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From Gutenberg To Juan Doe: The Dulling Of Quills, The Inking Of Fingers, And The Bluing Of Collars, Ken Macro Oct 2008

From Gutenberg To Juan Doe: The Dulling Of Quills, The Inking Of Fingers, And The Bluing Of Collars, Ken Macro

Graphic Communication

No abstract provided.

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G7 Method For Indigo Press Calibration And Proofing, Xiaoying Rong Sep 2008

G7 Method For Indigo Press Calibration And Proofing, Xiaoying Rong

Graphic Communication

G7 is a method originally developed for calibrating commercial offset press. Instead of controlling solid ink density (SID) and tone value increase (TVI), the G7 method introduces gray balance control as the key to achieve consistent color reproduction. The gray patches are quantified by CIE L*a*b* values. Inks used in conventional offset printing and Indigo printing are different in ink/toner pigments and ink setting/drying mechanism. Based on gray balance, the G7 method is believed to be valid for calibrating digital printing and other conventional printing processes. This study focused on the quality of color reproduction with the G7 method, and …

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Pitfalls Of Copying Industry Leaders, Kevin Cooper May 2008

Pitfalls Of Copying Industry Leaders, Kevin Cooper

Graphic Communication

No abstract provided.

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If Only I Could Learn More..., Malcolm G. Keif May 2008

If Only I Could Learn More..., Malcolm G. Keif

Graphic Communication

If you are like me, you get frustrated that you can’t learn as much as you’d like. As I get older, I deal with that part of life that we all (will) deal with …. the memory isn’t what it once was. Now, where was I? Oh yeah …

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G7™ Method For Flexographic Press Calibration, Michael Bayard, Xiaoying Rong, Malcolm Keif Mar 2008

G7™ Method For Flexographic Press Calibration, Michael Bayard, Xiaoying Rong, Malcolm Keif

Graphic Communication

The purpose of this study is to apply the G7 method for calibration on a four-color flexographic press. G7 controls and calibrates a press using colorimetric values rather than tone value increase. Two press runs were completed to calibrate a flexographic press. The first press run provided data for creating a control curve called Neutral Print Density Curve (NPDC) for the press run with a specific combination of inks and substrate. The printed P2P target was used to build the RIP curve and cutback the digital file. The calibrated plates then ran for the second time to check the efficiency …

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Editors’ Note: The Expansion Of The Media Literacy Research Agenda, Jeremy Harris Lipschultz, Michael L. Hilt Feb 2008

Editors’ Note: The Expansion Of The Media Literacy Research Agenda, Jeremy Harris Lipschultz, Michael L. Hilt

Communication Faculty Publications

Studies in Media & Information Literacy Education (SIMILE) in 2007 published a range of articles in three specific areas of study: secondary education, visual literacy, and critical examination of media.

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Graduate Record 2008: Year Of The Dawg, Southwestern Oklahoma State University Jan 2008

Graduate Record 2008: Year Of The Dawg, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

SWOSU Yearbooks

The 2008 Graduate Record was produced by the journalism department.

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The True Colors Of Trademark Law: Green-Lighting A Red Tide Of Anti Competition Blues, Ann Bartow Jan 2008

The True Colors Of Trademark Law: Green-Lighting A Red Tide Of Anti Competition Blues, Ann Bartow

Law Faculty Scholarship

The elevation of color to stand-alone trademark status illustrates the unbounded nature of trademarks within the judicial consciousness. The availability of color-alone marks also facilitates the commoditization of color in ways that complicate the development and distribution of products and services that use color for multiple purposes conterminously. The economic case for color-alone trademarks is severely undermined by careful observation of the ways that colors are actually deployed in commerce, which makes it clear that the trademarks of multiple goods and services can utilize the same color to telegraph the same message without confusing anyone or diluting the commercial power …

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Erps Are No Simple Fix, Kevin Cooper Jan 2008

Erps Are No Simple Fix, Kevin Cooper

Graphic Communication

No abstract provided.

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Pre-Registering Print Cylinders On Press, Malcolm G. Keif Jan 2008

Pre-Registering Print Cylinders On Press, Malcolm G. Keif

Graphic Communication

Those who study lean manufacturing know that waste comes in many forms. We must remind ourselves that anything that does not produce exactly what the customer values, when it is needed, is a wasteful operation. Makereadies, or press setups, are wasteful, at least in the eyes of our customers. Reducing press setup time is critical for improving customer value and making the printer more competitive on short-runs while increasing overall productivity. Even though make-ready time is built into an estimate, the bottom line is that it isn’t something a customer is delighted about paying for. Reducing makeready time, therefore, becomes …

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Making Superior Plates Every Time, Malcolm G. Keif Jan 2008

Making Superior Plates Every Time, Malcolm G. Keif

Graphic Communication

Flexo plates are a critical component of the printing system. Printing is a system—viewing platemaking in isolation doesn’t address the total print process. A system has multiple components that interact with each other and influence the performance of each. Great plates with the wrong anilox rolls offer nothing to improve quality. Likewise, great plates made from a poorly prepared file help little to produce an outstanding final product. So, looking upstream and downstream is necessary to ensure your plates are supporting the total printing system. Superior printing plates… •have sufficient resolution for the graphics to be reproduced on the substrate …

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Single Curved Fiber Sedimentation Under Gravity, Xiaoying Rong, Dewei Qi, Guowei He, Jun Yong Zhu, Tim Scott Jan 2008

Single Curved Fiber Sedimentation Under Gravity, Xiaoying Rong, Dewei Qi, Guowei He, Jun Yong Zhu, Tim Scott

Graphic Communication

Dynamics of single curved fiber sedimentation under gravity are simulated by using the lattice Boltzmann method. The results of migration and rotation of the curved fiber at different Reynolds numbers are reported. The results show that the rotation and migration processes are sensitive to the curvature of the fiber.

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Visual Powerpoint: Photographic Principles To Revitalize Slides, Amy M. Thompson Jan 2008

Visual Powerpoint: Photographic Principles To Revitalize Slides, Amy M. Thompson

Theses and Dissertations

“Visual PowerPoint: Photographic principles to revitalize slides” describes and demonstrates how Microsoft PowerPoint users can incorporate four principles of photography into their slides to enhance their presentation purposes and add visual appeal to their slides. Potential users of the trade book are experienced PowerPoint users who wish to improve their slides. Accompanying the manuscript is an analytic cover piece.

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The Best Work At Getting Better, Kevin Cooper Sep 2007

The Best Work At Getting Better, Kevin Cooper

Graphic Communication

No abstract provided.

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Status Of Automation Of Electronic Prepress Workflow, Milos Krsmanovic Aug 2007

Status Of Automation Of Electronic Prepress Workflow, Milos Krsmanovic

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Production systems in the printing industry are not yet fully automated. Unlike other industries, such as various manufacturing industries that use assembly line production systems and Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) concepts, the printing industry is still heavily based on manual input, human judgment and creativity, especially in the area of electronic prepress production. This study analyzes the workflow practices of companies of various levels of automation and suggests best practices in automating electronic prepress workflow. The researcher disseminated the research instrument consisting of a PDF file and an online questionnaire to electronic prepress supervisors at various offset lithographic printing companies. …

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Differentiating A Commodity, Kevin Cooper Aug 2007

Differentiating A Commodity, Kevin Cooper

Graphic Communication

No abstract provided.

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Why Are There Any Defects At All?, Kevin Cooper Apr 2007

Why Are There Any Defects At All?, Kevin Cooper

Graphic Communication

No abstract provided.

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Gender-Linked Stereotypic Content In Youth Magazines, Devon Cadwell Bazata Apr 2007

Gender-Linked Stereotypic Content In Youth Magazines, Devon Cadwell Bazata

College of Journalism and Mass Communications: Theses

This study evaluates youth magazines aimed at or read by three different target audiences--boys, girls, boys and girls--and examines whether the magazines reinforce gender stereotypes, and whether the intended audience makes a difference in that reinforcement or lack of it. First, this study established a theoretical framework upon which the selection of the target age group for the sample was based. Piaget and Kohlberg's seminal work, and Gilligan and other feminist theory, is considered in the context of the results. Second, it defined stereotypic, counter-stereotypic, and gender-neutral attributes based on five previous peer-reviewed studies dating from 1957-1975, and confirmed the …

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A Study Of Pla Printability With Flexography, Xiaoying Rong, Malcolm Keif Mar 2007

A Study Of Pla Printability With Flexography, Xiaoying Rong, Malcolm Keif

Graphic Communication

Most products are boxes, bottles and bags. The printability of biodegradable film has not been fully investigated. This study tested the printability on clear and white Polylactic acid (PLA) films, and compared the print qualities to common packaging films like Polypropylene (PP), Polyethylene terephthalate (PET). Water-based flexo ink was used to test printability on PLA films. The influence of anilox roll and plate screen ruling was also considered. The print qualities were reported as dot shape, tone reproduction, and mottle. This study showed that biodegradable films could achieve similar quality compared to common packaging films. While printed at different screen …

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The Study Of Missing Dots Of Electromechanical And Laser Engraved Cylinders, Xiaoying Rong, Alexandra Pekarovicova Mar 2007

The Study Of Missing Dots Of Electromechanical And Laser Engraved Cylinders, Xiaoying Rong, Alexandra Pekarovicova

Graphic Communication

According to the previous study, the printability of electromechanical engraved cylinder and laser engraved cylinder were different in terms of density, tone reproduction and mottle. In this study, the missing dots of two different engraved cell types were investigated. It showed that different cell structures had strong effect to ink transferring and the characteristics of missing dots. Lasers engraved cells were less affected by ESA (electrostatic assist). When there was no ESA applied, the laser engraved cells showed less missing dot area, which indicated better ink release from spherical shaped cells. ESA had more effects to coated substrates than supercalendered …

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