PacPrint13: Kayell Australia

Kayell will exhibit solutions for enterprise-wide colour management, leaning on products from its network of partners. Visitors to the stand will get a look at a package for colour management with GMG Color’s software at the core, including Barbieri spectros, GTI lighting and a wide-gamut proofer from Epson.

GMG OpenColor is a new and unique solution that allows packaging printers to create colour profiles quickly and simply without the need for extensive expertise. It was shown in a product technology demonstration at Drupa last year. In late 2012, it went into beta development with several European packaging printers, and all the betas placed orders in advance of the final release.

The software relies on spectral data measurements that when inputted into a patented algorithm can simulate press conditions across offset, flexo or gravure. This means a packaging printer can simply measure a known spot-colour and quickly incorporate the result into their particular press conditions. The result is a proof that obtains a match simulating not only colour but press behaviour.

Kayell Australia has always been active in the packaging markets and OpenColor allows the vendor to revisit its customers with a new solution that aims to save them time and money. This will be the first public demonstration of the technology in the southern hemisphere, straight off the Drupa show floor.

Another key product at the Kayell stand will be the Barbieri LFP Colour Spectrophotometer, an industrial colour spectro aimed squarely at the fast growing large-format print market. It allows measurements on a range of media, both reflective and transmissive, which can’t usually be measured accurately with a conventional spectrophotometer. Unlike conventional spectrophotometers designed for offset applications, the Barbieri is aimed at large-format print.

Star product GMG OpenColor 

Packaging printers are the main target for this new colour management software. According to GMG, producing accurate colour proofs for packaging is still quite difficult. GMG says that standardisation does not exist because spot colours and custom ink sets with more than fourcolours are typically used, along with a wide range of print processes and substrates. 

It creates a headache for packaging producers, which must spend an inordinate length of time fingerprinting their presses – a process GMG say is expensive, cumbersome and unreliable. 

GMG OpenColor, which will be shown at the Kayell stand at PacPrint, can represent pure spot colours and simulate their complex overprinting behaviour. The software works with GMG ColorProof so that the same spectral colour data can be reliably used for profiling and production at different company locations with consistent results.

Kayell Australia, www.kayellaustralia.com.au, Stand 1820

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