Prepress
NEW GMG PROFILES AVAILABLE FOR THE PACKAGING GRAVURE COLOR STANDARD PAC.SPACE
Saturday 04. July 2009 - GMG, developer and supplier of high-end color management and proofing solutions, supplies numerous new proof profiles for PaC.Space.
They are available for the media GMG ProofPaper semimatte, GMG ProofPaper semimatte light and GMG ProofPaper gloss 250. The new GMG standard profiles were created for the printer series Epson Stylus Pro x800, x880 and x900 as well as for HP Designjet Z3200. New GMG ProofControl standards are also prepared for download.
At drupa 2008, PaC.Space was presented to experts as the first common color standard for packaging gravure printing. In contrast to offset printing, there has been no standard for packaging gravure until then. PaC.Space can close this gap. The idea of a common color space is the result of a project of the Pro Gravure workgroup of ERA, the European Rotogravure Association, steered by GMG and Janoschka, the largest cylinder house in Europe.
The target of PaC.Space is to unify the process of the prepress data preparation for the print forme. PaC.Space is a general packaging gravure color space to allow a defined interface from the supplied prepress data to process-specific or printer-specific requirements. Experience has shown that in many cases repro is carried out before knowing which printing process will be applied. The final print data has to be reworked to fit the individual requirements of the target process unnecessarily increasing the time and costs involved. PaC.Space supports a color space and workflow which allows for a digital proof close to the final result of the press even in the early stages of the production process. The handling of the data is all carried out in PaC.Space.
PaC.Space covers CMYK process colors and supplies both the colorimetric description of its color space and profiles for the ICC or GMG standard for color space conversions into other printing standards. This helps to achieve considerable time and cost savings regarding prepress. All in all, the quality of the production process increases and enables suppliers to ensure their customers’ confidence.
All profiles and further information about PaC.Space are available at www.cm-pacspace.net