About The Authors
Eric Nelsen has been in the prepress industry for 15 years. Much of this time was spent in the dealer channel and included stints as a prepress systems integrator, and pre-sales support person, training technical reps and sales people on every continent. He also enjoyed a short detour with an Internet Bubble-era printing-based dotcom, which was eventually sold to major print-for-pay provider. While he found this to be a great learning experience, he also found it was a way to learn how to do things wrong. Subsequent to this phase, Eric developed a desire to speak and write concisely so as to shorten the meetings in which he takes part. He therefore claims that any wordiness in his articles is attributable to the editing process or mistakes! Joining Xitron in 2004 as a Support Specialist, he was promoted in 2005 to Product Manager where he is responsible for the development and direction of the Navigator RIP, RIP Manager, and RasterBlaster. Eric enjoys wine, cooking, and fencing in his spare time, maybe even in that order.
Kern Kuipers has spent more than 20 years in the printing and prepress industry. After holding positions from traditional typesetting to desktop layout and design and electronic prepress, Kern became the “Systems Specialist” (in-house prepress guru) for a national text book publisher. He is also known to occasionally offer his services as an independent printing and prepress consultant and currently serves on the Industry Advisory Board of the Printing and Imaging Technology Department at Ferris State University. In 1996 Kern joined Xitron, where he currently manages the Test Engineering department, verifying the quality and reliability of Xitron’s PostScript RIP products. Kern has presented PostScript and pre-press seminars all over the world, covering various topics from color management to pre-press workflow strategies, and of course, the functionality and use of the Harlequin RIP. He earned a B.B.A. in Marketing from Cleary University and a B.S. in Comparative Religion from Central Michigan. His non-prepress hobbies include history, reading, writing, travel, and occasionally re-creating guitar licks.
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