GMG upgrades colour control
GMG has been upgrading its software to meet the requirements of an industry demanding higher quality product from their machinery.
Monday, 04 Aug 2014 15:07 GMT
Being able to produce perfect and uniform high-intensity colours is becoming ever-more important in a highly competitive print market
Recently, the German developer launched its newest ColorServer 4.9 colour conversion software and updated their ProofControl quality assurance software to help large-format printers enhance and take full control of their end product. The ColorServer is an update of their existing automated colour conversion software, providing CMYK to CMYK, RGB to RGB, RGB to CMYK, CMYK to RGB and spot colour to CMYK conversions while preserving the integrity of the black channel.
Speaking about the ColorServer, GMG’s manager of business unit graphic arts, Birgit Plautz, says: “The inclusion of a powerful, quasi-real-time colour managed workflow based around the PDF/VT-1 format offers a compelling value proposition to variable data applications such as transpromo and document management, which we are very excited about.
“At the same time ColorServer 4.9 includes a raft of new or enhanced features designed to deliver real-world benefits to any print services provider looking for a fast, accurate and easy-to-use solution to rationalise output to a definable colour space independent of any particular print process or device.”
Continuing technological advances allow the industry to continue to refine and develop ever more accurate and definable output standards”
The ProofControl software has also had an upgrade. The original software was designed to simulate all main international output standards such as ISO, ECI, SWOP and 3DAP. Now including support for more tightly-defined output standards such as D50-based, ISO 13655:2009 standards, the new software measures the colour output, comparing the result to target values stored within its database, printing an adhesive label on each successful proof.
Plautz adds: “GMG ProofControl allows print service providers to provide guaranteed and quality-checked output standard for their digital colour proof production, regardless of device, standards criteria or print process.”
She continues: “Continuing technological advances allow the industry to continue to refine and develop ever more accurate and definable output standards. GMG ProofControl v2.1 embraces these new standards and measurement conditions, allowing our customers to offer best-in-class digital output to the end user, supported with a quality assurance certificate that confirms the expected output tolerances.”
The trend in consistently upgraded management software like these just goes to show the intricacies of colour and quality expected in the industry nowadays and how a firm of any kind must take into account the growing importance of digital proofing.
