Smart Colour ensures consistent brand colors
GMG has announced the expansion of its partnership with Sun Chemical. The goal is a better link with the Sun Chemical smart color database within a workflow, in which EskoArtwork prepress tools, and GMG proofing solutions are combined. The collaboration of three industry leaders to offer the label and packaging manufacturing with a more integrated, continuous color workflow.
Smart Colour, a database consisting of real values of pressures, including the color specifications of leading brands, helps save time and money. Proofs on a production press, which were previously required to achieve an accurate color proof simulation are superfluous. Esko Artwork Color Engine is connected to the smart color database and manages the smart color color information by all spectral colour profiles be used to calculate the overprinting of spot colors. The new partnership enables the integration of GMG Esko Artwork proofing technology for the integration of the GMG Color Proof to the smart color engine.
In each stage of the packaging manufacturing from design to prepress to print smart color profiles can be used to communicate color information to efficiently: Special colors are displayed on the monitor as a preview and reproduced in color accurate inkjet proofs. This allows accurate brand colors Sonderfarbenandrucke without expensive maintenance and false color can be achieved.
Improved color consistency and shorter cycles
The catalyst for the innovative collaboration was an increasing demand from customers for greater integration of different workflow components. Since Esko Artwork and GMG have a broad common customer base, those customers will now have access to one central spot color archive. This leads to system-wide uniform colors and a more harmonious and more realistic special color reproduction in mixed workflows. The new joint solution also meets the growing demand for remote proofing, because brand manufacturers demand ever-shorter design cycles.
The new color range is a unique and completely vendor neutral solution. They give users throughout the production chain a realistic impression of the expected color output and prevents delays and increased costs due to communication failure regarding the colors. The Smart Colour special colour definitions to a specific job are associated with packaging manufacturing, including the color definitions of brand manufacturers, are automatically detected by the GMG proofing. Electronically stored to manufacturing jobs included a link to the smart color data so that repeat orders can be completed quickly and color consistent.
The Smart Colour technology is seen as an integration in the recently released Esko Artwork Suite 10 during the Labelexpo Americas on the EskoArtwork booth # 5202nd Esko Artwork and GMG integration for smart color database is the end of 2010 to be available.