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Archiving 2012 Join us in Copenhagen! Join colleagues to discuss the latest in digital archiving for cultural heritage institutions. Learn how to submit your paper for this June 2012 meeting.
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Imaging Tutorials
Imaging Optics
- How a Telescope Works by Russ Palum (Eastman Kodak Company)
Learn the optical properties behind how a telescope makes things that are far away seem closer
Digital Image Capture
- How a Picture can be Represented as a Collection of Numbers by James Milch (Carestream Health Inc.)
What does it mean to be a digital image? - What is Inside a JPEG File by Carl Salvaggio (Rochester Institute of Technology)
Most of us save our digital photographs as JPEGs, but what does that really mean? - Image Capture Beyond 24-Bit RGB by Donald S. Brown (Eastman Kodak Company)
Learn more about digital image capture and how digital images convey color
Printing Technologies
- A Tutorial on Printing by James C. Owens (retired Eastman Kodak Company)
A primer to digital printing, including discussion of halftoning, color reproduction, and various printing technologies - How a printing press works by Eric Hanson (Hewlett Packard Laboratories)
Learn the basics of an offset lithographic press - How an ink jet printer works by Eric Hanson (Hewlett Packard Laboratories)
Thermal and piezoelectric ink jet printers are dissected in this tutorial - Progress and Trends in Ink-jet Printing Technology by Hue P. Le (Le Technologies, Inc., Beaverton, Oregon)
Learn more about the development of the ink jet printer - Electrophotography Overview by Howard Mizes, Dan Hays, and Nancy Goodman (Xerox Corporation)
Also known as xerography, this printing method relies on electrostatic charges and photoconductive surfaces - Color Solid Ink Printing by C. Wayne Jaeger (retired Xerox Corporation)
This printing technology uses solid inks that are melted during the printing process to create the image - An Introduction to Photothermography by M. R. V. Sahyun (retired 3M)
Based on silver halide technology, new media is being used for applications in our digital age
