Colour Control | GMG Colour Proofing | Retouching | Pre-Press | Reprographics
With our extensive knowledge and years of experience in colour management, retouching and pre-print repro, we offer you the assurance and peace of mind that your final printed result will be a true reflection of your final file. Be it an advert, carton, magazine page or DVD/inlay sleeve, we use the latest GMG software and Epson printers to reproduce accurate and consistent digital colour proofing.
Our GMG Software
GMG software is top of the class for colour management and digital proofing solutions for the advertising, publishing and packaging sectors. Ensuring perfect and consistent colour simulation across the various printing processes: Offset & Digital and even Flexo & Gravure.
What is Repro?
In the printing industry, “Repro” refers to the process of creating print-ready files. Our proofing service will enable you to see your final printed result in the closest way possible by using digital proofing.
Epson Proofers
Our ‘state of the art’ Epson proofers operate with 10 ink colours and will simulate any substrate colour and run accurately against every printer specification. And with such a wide gamut of colour range means they are able to replicate any Pantone or 5th (special) colour being used on your project, with ease.
Advertising Campaigns
To see how your advertising campaign performs, we can run the same subject across numerous media publication specifications. If you are getting your carton printed in Flexo, we can highlight all of the print hurdles, dot gain challenges and minimum dot obstacles and if you are printing a multi page document, we can highlight your colour consistency across your whole magazine.
Colour Management
Colour management is the process of ensuring that colours are reproduced accurately and consistently against the original design. It is important for any printing project because colours can be critical to the success of a campaign or project. Images can be supplied in a variety of manners and with a combination of retouching, image enhancement and profile output, we guarantee your images will reproduce consistently throughout your proofs.
Page Layout Management
Once your flatplan is supplied, we add pagination to the document. Your layouts are carefully checked for page size, correct bleed to images and panels, page furniture, legibility of captions, correct character styles, gutter size (and allowance) and any required picture splits. We would also prepare the final pages into printers pairs (imposition), once the layouts are approved.
Specification
Magazines and brochures are printed on a number of different papers, using different ink manufacturers, a variety of atmospheres and conditions and of course different printing presses. On output we use ICC (International Colour Consortium) profiles taking into account, the targets from your printer. We are forever increasing and updating our database of profiles.
Simulated Stock Proofs
Our studio is equipped with GMG software running on the latest Epson proofers. This enables us to produce high-quality proofs simulating your newspapers and magazines when printed – to ensure our clients can be confident before we release the final files to the printers.