GMG software works across different print devices

Jon Wallbank, director, Absolute Digital Print 

Absolute Digital Print has invested in GMG ColorProof and ColorServer to offer a higher quality, consistent print and proofing service across its different print devices.

The company initially started as a purely digital print services provider, focussing on the quality end of the local short run market. Within a short space of time, clients were turning to the company to address more and more of their print requirements, including longer-run jobs that lend themselves better to litho printing.

Jon Wallbank, director, said, ‘The main reason we came to GMG was a need for standardisation and achieving colour consistency across our print processes. With a growing investment in a diverse range of output devices, we needed a way to reference the output characteristics of all our printers to allow us to deliver consistent results regardless of which machine or media the job was printed on.’

Short run digital work is handled by a Canon ImagePress, while wide format duties are shared between an HP Scitex FB-500 and Epson Stylus Pro 11880 devices. Of particular note is that the company has standardised on stochastic screening for all of its B2 litho work.

‘We went directly to GMG, we didn’t even consider any other supplier, since we knew of GMG’s reputation within the industry and were confident that they could deliver the results we expected,’ said Mr Wallbank. 

GMG proposed a solution based on ColorProof and ColorServer, designed to offer the company device-independent output that would be easy to manage on a day-to-day basis, and would manage output against their target print colour space of FOGRA 39L or ISO 12647-2.

The ColorProof system is a software solution for the production of high-accuracy digital contract proofs. Key to its success in the proofing market is its 4-D colour transformation engine that ensures the highest possible quality and production reliability.

ColorServer automates the colour normalisation of PDF files, providing accurate CMYK to CMYK, RGB to CMYK and spot colour to CMYK conversions while preserving the integrity of the black channel. The result is a standardised and simplified colour management model that delivers consistent print results across any print process and substrate.