Colour Management

Colour Management is increasingly being identified as the essential key to developing a cost efficient production environment, with increased reproducible colour quality, in an era where the clients of the graphics arts industry continually seek better quality and cost savings.

This key skill has played a major role in putting Colgraphix UK firmly on the map of graphic arts industry. Through many years of experience in digital photography, scanning, digital proofing, soft-proofing, pre-press workflow, computer-to-plate and large format digital printing, we have accumulated vast amount of knowledge and expertise in controlling the colour through every step of the production process.

From calibrating individual monitors and proofing devices, through creating highly specialised, customised media profiles for wide-format and industrial printers, to managing colour in cross-platform / cross-plant environment, to delivering tailor-made colour management training courses, Colgraphix UK is perfectly positioned to either offer consultancy services on your behalf, or empower you with tools and knowledge to embrace control of colour yourself.

Colour Profiling Service – print the right colours with Colgraphix UK

Our bespoke profiling service will optimise the behaviour of your printing machine and get the best possible gamut out of your ink / media / printer combination. We will help you get the most accurate rendition of Spot Colours your device is capable of, and then replicate it across multiple different devices and media.

Colour Maintenance – print the right colours next month, and the next…

Once the best results are achieved, it becomes a continuous challenge to maintain this level of quality and consistency, to successfully navigate through daily / weekly / monthly variations of many parameters which are inevitable part of printing manufacturing process.

This ground-breaking service will help you monitor and address colour shifts resulting from:

• Regular changes in printing device’s behaviour (e.g. temperature, humidity, wear & tear)
• Engineering maintenance and repair interventions (e.g. printhead replacement)
• Changes in post-printing treatment (e.g. temperature / pressure of fixation unit in textile printing)
• Inconsistencies within consumable supplies (e.g. problems with media or ink batches)
• Human error (both in pre-press and printing stage)

We will provide you with tools and knowledge, and work with you to achieve the ultimate in-house quality control over your colour output.

Colour Management Training Courses

• Learn how to create high quality profiles for your printing devices
• Calibrate your devices, for stable and predictable output
• Take operational and commercial advantage of in-house colour control
• Experiment with new printing materials

But it doesn’t stop there: optimising the colour behaviour of individual pieces of equipment (printers, monitors etc.) is not enough to ensure predictable output. Inconsistencies often arise from lack of attention to how colour behaviour is set-up in the graphics applications used to originate, manipulate and communicate colour information.

• Correctly set up Colour Preferences in your graphics applications
• Understand the difference between assigning, embedding and assuming profiles
• Learn how to convert between colour spaces, with minimum loss of colour

Our customised training courses focus on discussing your colour workflow and recommending optimum working practices related to communicating colour, both in house and with external suppliers and clients.