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  • Color Management
  • Workflow Integration
    • Enfocus
  • Digital Publishing
    • Digital Publishing for Printers
    • Digital Publishing Services
  • About us
    • Meet our team
  • Contact us
rods and conesrods and cones
  • Color Management
  • Workflow Integration
    • Enfocus
  • Digital Publishing
    • Digital Publishing for Printers
    • Digital Publishing Services
  • About us
    • Meet our team
  • Contact us

We bring You Back From Chaos.

Is your personal chaos a printer that prints lousy colors?
Or is your chaos so great that you can’t find your files,
nothing prints right and everything takes twice as long as it should?
We are creative, intuitive, technical thinkers and doers
who build innovative workflow solutions for the graphic and printing industries.

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COLOR MANAGEMENT

  • Color management
  • Job management
  • DAM selection, conceptualization and implementation
  • Automation and customization
  • Prepress and printing standardization

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WORKFLOW INTEGRATION

  • About workflow integration
  • How does color management impact your workflow

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DIGITAL PUBLISHING

Digital publication is growing exponentially. Don’t hesitate and get left behind. Give us a call and publish your app effortlessly and effectively.

(831) 421-0131 – contact

  • "Whenever I need color management answers, I reach for the one tool which will solve all my color management problems: the telephone. I dial Rods and Cones and they lead me out of chaos."
    Russell Preston Brown
    Senior Creative Director at Adobe Systems Inc.

Our clients list includes:

Tiffany

Williams Sonoma

Schawk!

Mother Parkers

Love’s Country Stores

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Out of Chaos, a quarterly digital magazine published by Rods and Cones.

Read general interest or technical articles, interviews, receive invaluable advice for designers, prepress, printers, and everyone on the creative loop.

DOWNLOAD Out of Chaos for iOS on iTunes
DOWNLOAD Out of Chaos for Android on Amazon

You can also read Out of Chaos online:

Out of Chaos Web Readers

To know more about our magazine, visit Out of Chaos website: www.outofchaosmag.com.

Summer/Fall 2016 Issue Cover

Read our winning issue online:
www.rodsandcones.com/outofchaos/fall2016/Cover

Out of Chaos finalists for three 2017 FOLIO: ‘Eddie’ & ‘Ozzie’ Awards!

We are honored by our nomination for two of this year’s awards from the prestigious Folio Magazine. We have been announced as finalists for the Ozzie Digital Award for ‘Business to Business digital magazine’, the Eddie Award for ‘use of AR/VR’ for the article ‘Has AR gone mainstream?’, and the Eddie Award for ‘Business to Business single article’ – for our article “Life of Blue”. We are excited to have made it to the final round of selections for these awards! The winners will be announced on October 11th, wish us luck!

Out of Chaos awarded ‘Best Digital Publication’ at 2017 Maggie Awards!

We are very proud to announce that Out of Chaos was awarded Best Digital or Tablet Publication/Trade & Consumer 2017! We were also honored to have been nominated for Best Digital Edition or Tablet Article for the Article ‘Life of Blue’, published in our Summer/Fall 2016 issue. This issue was the first to appear as part of the new article-based content management platform and was the only finalist published in this new format.

The honor of these recognitions has fueled our passion and we look forward to returning next year with an even more fun and refined app for Out of Chaos Magazine!!

The Out of Chaos Magazine is a digital magazine that seems to do everything right.

D. B. Hebbard

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We are solutions providers. We analyze workflows, evaluate technology, interview staff, understand goals, and present a report complete with ROI, technology and workflow recommendations, and an implementation strategy. We are brand-agnostic and familiar with most DAMs, proofing systems, RIPs, and automation tools. Our workflows always present a compelling ROI.

Rods and Cones
501 Mission Street, Suite 9
Santa Cruz, CA 95060

Contact Erica Aitken
erica@rodsandcones.com   (831) 421-0131

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