New Products

Cachet
Cachet is a colour matching system for matching screen colour display with printed output. It is designed for images that are to be CMYK separated.  Kodak's ColorSense is more appropriate for images that will be printed on colour printers. Cachet's approach is to match your images to reference images rather than work with a calibrated screen. You can either proof your own images or use some of the supplied images. By matching the colour in your scanned images with the reference image you will be able to see how the image will print. Cachet offers some neat image manipulation tools to support your colour matching efforts.
If you don't want to become a Photoshop guru, but need to produce film separations of colour images then try Cachet. It will usually produce a better image than you can in Photoshop.
Some of the Cachet colour profiles will be included with the new release 3.2 of Quark Xpress.
Cachet........................................$856

Provektor 88 CD
Not really a new product, but we have acquired a small quantity at low cost. Provektor 88 is a swedish clip art CD with over 2,000 images in Freehand and Epsf format. The CD also includes 1,500 Epsf images from the Apple product library. The images are production quality and tend to be graphic elements that can be combined and used in other illustrations. If you use Freehand then this CD is great value. If you use Illustrator then the images can be made editable using EPS Exchange. Still great value.
Provektor 88 CD...............................$49

Multimedia Handisc CD
Not really a new product, but we have acquired a small quantity at low cost. The Multimedia Handisc is an introduction to multimedia with a great selection of product demos and resources. If you need some backgrounds, sounds, animations and icons then this will suffice. Demos of many popular Multimedia programs are also included.
Multimedia Hamdisc CD.........................$39

Gravis GamePad
We have had some experience with the new Gravis GamePad this week. This device is definitely for arcade style games. The eight position switch that is used as a psuedo joystick gives very little control when manouvering in 3D space.
Gravis GamePad.................................$99