Monday, 08 Sep 2014 13:01 GMT

GMG celebrates three colourful decades

It cannot be denied that GMG is one of the leading developers in colour-management, with its ColorServer, SmartProfiler and ColorProof products proving popular across the industry.

This year, the software giant celebrates its 30th anniversary in colour management, which is decribed in concise terms by co-owner Robert Weihing as: “Converting, standardizing, reproducing, maximizing, controlling, sharing and evolving colour.”

Brothers Robert and Joerg now run the company their father, Ewald, founded in 1984 and recall that the company’s success had a lot to do with their father’s input.

Robert recalls: “Our father had the foresight to see the potential impact of the IRIS on the sign-making industry. Sign-making was very labour- and materials-intensive, because you needed a separate foil for each layer, but the IRIS could print a sign in a single pass. One day, however, we printed an image from a slide and noticed that many of the browns printed as green. That was when we realized we had to learn about colour-management.”

As our customers’ needs have developed, so we have expanded our portfolio to serve the different requirements for colour-managed results in different sectors”

Today, the company offers 15 products in the sector and has over 11,000 solutions installed worldwide in a wide range of customers.

Robert continues: “As our customers’ needs have developed, so we have expanded our portfolio to serve the different requirements for colour-managed results in different sectors.

“We are now looking forward to another 30 years developing colour management solutions to help these customers achieve profitable, efficient production throughout the value chain, from concept to creation.”


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