Colour
Management Services
Getting
good colour
first time results in cost savings through less remakes and less
retouching time. The enhanced image quality helps you
to
attract
new customers
while
satisfying your existing accounts.
Colour Management through the
careful implementation of ICC Profiles can bring many benefits.
It is not easy to implement yourself however! Which is why we
are
here to
help you. Professional help and training is advisable during
the initial
phase of colour management projects.
Our expertise in Colour Management is
geared to helping the the Prepress, Printing,
Photographic, Design, Advertising and related industries. Our Colour
Management Consultancy services will help you by creating custom ICC
Profiles for your equipment and workflows to suit your requirements.
Colour
Management Audits
These can take various forms depending
on your
requirements and the size of the company. Typically we will
evaluate
your present Colour Management and workflow procedures and
equipment. This includes Photoshop and existing ICC Profiles
and the quality achieved. We
discuss your present procedures and problems, and future requirements
with you. We can help you with the implementation of ISO
standards for printing. We often suggest a progressively staged
implementation
of
Colour Management.
ICC
Profiling
ICC Profiles are created using our facilities (profiling software and
hardware). ICC Profiles for printing conforming to ISO
12647
standard can be produced, incorporating either your or your printing
provider's requirements for GCR,
Black Ink and Total Area Coverage, etc.
Our clients have sometimes purchased
colour
profiling
software
and hardware, but lack experience in it's use. In which case
we
will create ICC Profiles using their facilities, while training their
staff.
Digital
Printer & Proofer Profiling
Digital printers (often used as proofers) are normally
controlled by a RIP. They have to
be carefully calibrated (linearized) for specific paper types before
profiling can
commence.
This is always better than using the supplied "canned" profiles.
Press
Profiling
ICC Profiles for a press may be
required as part of a
proofing operation, or to produce accurately separated CMYK images to
your printing specification. After profiling, training will be
given in the use of the new
Colour Management workflow and procedures.
Colour
Monitor Profiling
Monitor
calibration is normally performed as a part of the profiling
procedure. Standards for your company will need to
be
established
as part of the procedure. Your staff will need to know how to
re-calibrate and profile at regular intervals.
PhotoShop
Colour Settings
It
is pointless creating new ICC Profiles if they are not used because the
software isn't setup! At
present many people in the prepress and related industries are unaware
of these vital settings, which are often set to completely irrelevant
conditions, with resultant loss of quality. The ISO printing standards
have been further updated. This mean that the supplied "ISO
standard"and "SWOP" profiles are obsolete. These
settings
will be configured to make use of the newly
created ICC Profiles, and your staff will be familiarised with them.
Crosfield
& Fuji
Scanner Colour Optimisation
We have unrivalled
expertise
in helping users get the very best colour using these superb drum
and flatbed scanners.
We offer this service either in conjunction with
ICC
Profiling,
or for those clients who prefer to use the traditional CMYK
Scanning.
Our
Colour Training Services
Visit
our Home
page for an overview of this site.
