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We already knew that judging colour is far from simple and that the environment plays an important role. On the Insights4pint blog Eddy Hagen talks about another factor which makes it nearly impossible to judge colour objectively. He calls it “The uncertainty principle of visual color evaluations.” Simply said, people are so easily influenced where…

The Scottish will also move to polymer banknotes. The Clydesdale Bank, one of the three banks that produce money, has asked banknote printer De La Rue to print the new 10 pound note. They had already asked to change the 5 pound note. The new 10 pound note will, just like the paper note, have…

Albert Heijn (biggest supermarket chain in the Netherlands) has introduced the AH Productscanner. An app which uses augmented reality to give customers information about ingredients, nutrition, allergens, recipes and provenance of the AH branded products. The AH Productscanner uses augmented reality to achieve this. After scanning the front of a product with a smartphone the…

More and more companies choose to digitally communicate with their customers rather than with paper. But the consumers themselves would prefer to receive paper communication. From a cost perspective companies prefer to send invoices and statements in digital form rather than physical mail. But eight out of ten consumers would prefer to still have the…

Digital workflow solutions such as those from Agfa, EFI and Fuji have been offering data from output devices for optimisation of workflow for years. With its new version 8.1 Kodak claims to go further than just device data and says to be able to communicate with EFI Fiery, HP, Ricoh, Konika Minolta, Landa and Komori…