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Fine Art Printing for Photographers: Exhibition Quality Prints with Inkjet Printers, 2nd Edition

18 reviews
Uwe Steinmueller, Juergen Gulbins

Rocky Nook, 2008

Fine Art Printing, The Sophisticated Inkjet!
This is a title on digital printing by Rockynook, a recently established publishing house specializing in books on computers, digital photography and image production. They distribute their titles through O'Reilly here in the US. They have strong ties to a German publishing house dpunct.verlag, whose specialty is computer science and digital photography. Most of the early titles published by ...

Software Quality: State of the Art in Management, Testing, and Tools

1 review

Springer, 2001

For advanced SQA pros and academics
The first two parts of this 3-part book are a collection of monographs and essays on software quality management and certification and testing topics. The third part is devoted to software quality and testing tools. Since I am more interested in processes and techniques I focused more on the first two parts, which were truly state-of-the-art with respect to subject matter and approach. Among ...

The Desk Reference of Statistical Quality Methods, Second Edition

2 reviews
Mark L. Crossley

ASQ Quality Press, 2007

Great book for the Quality Engineer
If you actually want to learn how to apply SPC and other Quality Methods, this is the book for you. What makes this book great is its ability to bridges the concept to application gap that so many books do not. Mark Crossley breaks each tool down using easy-to-follow steps and illustrations that guide the reader through the use of each tool.

Quality is Free: The Art of Making Quality Certain

1 review
Philip B. Crosby

New American Library, 1980

good case study and the tools
This book teach me three things. 1. Catch copy is important. "Quality is Free" is a good phrase in the world. People who concern product quality, may want to read this book. 2 Case study and procedures are good deatail. If case study is abstractive, readers have not understood the problems. 3 Carefull Role play get good understanding. Opientation time is about one hour. It is enough to ...

Regional Cooperation for Water Quality Improvement in Southwestern Pennsylvania
Committee on Water Quality Improvement for the Pittsburgh Region, National Research Council

National Academies Press, 2005

The city of Pittsburgh and surrounding area of southwestern Pennsylvania face complex water quality problems, due in large part to aging wastewater infrastructures that cannot handle sewer overflows and stormwater runoff, especially during wet weather. Other problems such as acid mine drainage are a legacy of the region’s past coal mining, heavy industry, and manufacturing economy. Currently, water planning and management in southwestern ...

Miniature Size, Magical Quality: Nasca Art from the Glassell Collection (Houston Museum of Fine Arts)
Frances Marzio

Museum Fine Arts Houston, 2008

An extraordinary group of Nasca miniature objects—exquisite works produced in ancient Central and South America for personal adornment, ritual use, and burial—resides in the renowned Glassell Collection of Pre-Columbian Art. Dating from about A.D. 600, the Nasca miniatures were reported to have been found together in the Ica Valley of the south coast of present-day Peru. Beautifully crafted from gold, silver, shell, and semiprecious ...

An Artist's Life: Finest Quality Graphic Arts

3 reviews
Daniel Klos

CreateSpace, 2007

I didn't even know Dan could write
When you order a book on the Internet sight unseen, you're always taking a risk. Now, I know Dan and I worked with him at an ad agency many moons ago, but that was no guarantee that shelling out $25 for his book was going to be worth it. It is. His style is simple and charming and his advice to artists is worth the price of the book alone. Actually, Dan's advice on art and creativity is so ...

Implementing Quality Management in the Graphic Arts
Hershel L. Apfelberg, Michael J. Apfelberg

Graphic Arts Technical Fndtn, 1995

This book describes what TQM is and why quality is not just "What the customer will accept." Printers who have embraced the tenets of quality management have seen employee morale improve, productivity increase, and sales soar!

Color Essentials: Color And Quality For The Graphic Arts And Sciences
Gary G. Field

Gatfpress, 2004

What does "color quality" mean when making judgments of printed color reproductions? Color Essentials, Volume 2 continues the series designed to help develop one's color quality judgment and analysis skills through another set of 14 essays on color principles as they relate to everyday graphic arts color reproduction issues, from color vision to color systems engineering and color printing dynamics.