Prepress
GMG and X-Rite partner globally to develop new standardization solutions for the Graphic Arts industry
Wednesday 19. May 2010 - GMG, developer and supplier of high-end color management and proofing solutions, is pleased to announce today a new global partnership with X-Rite, the world leader in color management, measurement and communication technologies. Both companies have jointly developed a new line of X-Rite-branded automated print quality control and standardization solutions for the graphic arts industry.
The four new, wizard-driven, software solutions will allow pressroom operators and print buyers to track a job from contract to delivery to ensure consistent quality consistency and standards compliance. These solutions will support all of X-Rite prepress and printing instruments, and will be offered exclusively through X-Rite’s worldwide network of sales partners.
The new, jointly developed, solutions will include four different packages tailored to meet the stringent quality control and standardization needs of print buyers and printing professionals:
– PressOptimizer, for mid-size to large offset printing houses, offers an easy-to-use solution for effective process control and press standardization. PressOptimizer can significantly increase print quality, even on older presses, and allows users to achieve the same colors on different presses.
– PrintCheck is designed to meet the quality-control needs of small to mid-size offset printing houses. It informs the printer when a press is operating within a defined standard.
– PrintCheck Reader is targeted at print customers and print buyers. It is a free downloadable software that allows users to easily import print quality data for further verification of print quality.
– PrintCheck Review is targeted at professional print buyers (brand owners, advertising agencies, publishing houses, packaging designers) who wish to check print quality themselves.
GMG will continue to support existing customers of GMG RapidCheck and GMG PrintControl. Together with GMG ColorServer and GMG InkOptimizer, GMG PrintControl continues to be part of GMG’s ProcessControl bundle, the standardization bundle for sheetfed printers.
“At GMG we are thrilled to be working with X-Rite to bring these solutions to the market place. X-Rite’s industry-leading workflows are a natural fit with the production reliability delivered through our affordable and intuitive software products,” comments Paul Willems, CEO of GMG GmbH & Co. KG. “We believe that by working together, we can deliver state-of-the-art process and quality control solutions to the global printing industry community.”
“We are very excited to be involved in the development of the next iteration of GMG’s verification software portfolio, and to become the exclusive worldwide reseller for these solutions,” comments Tom Vacchiano, X-Rite’s CEO. “Through our partnership with GMG we are expanding the functionality of today’s automated verification offerings to meet the industry’s increasing need for process control and standardization.”
The new X-Rite PressOptimizer and PrintCheck portfolio will be unveiled to the public for the first time at IPEX (May 18-25, NEC, Birmingham, UK) on the X-Rite stand (Hall 10 stand D260).