Customer demand has sent Bright Print Group (BPG) into the wide format market, with a suite of technolgy due to be up and running next week. At the same time the company has achieved colour matching across all its machines in its two sites with the Mellow Colour ISO 12647-2 Proficient Printer certification through Colour Graphics Services. Speaking with Australian Printer, Debbie Burgess, director of BPG, says the time was right for the company to start offering wide format services to its clients.
(l-r)David Crowther with John Bright, director of BPG
Burgess says, “We provided end-to-end services to our customers and outsourced the wide format work, but the time was right for us to bring that element of printing home. “We had many of our customers ask us to do their wide format printing in-house so they could have an all inclusive service with us, and that encouraged us to extend our offering to include wide format. “The other main reason was the technology. It has stabilised in recent times and so it made sense to broaden our scope of our product offering. Burgess did not say what technology the company will use to print wide format. “We will have the machines installed by next week so I don’t want to say what printers we have brought until they are all up and running,” she says. BPG has also achieved the Mellow Colour ISO 12647-2 Proficient Printer certification through Colour Graphics Services, Australian region distributor for the Mellow Colour software suite. Burgess says “This is a much more stringent certification process than ISO certification and enables us to not second guess when it comes to getting the perfect colour match. “It is not necessarily from a marketing perspective, the certification enables us to be proficient on the floor.” John Bright, director of BPG, says: “Our main goals were to match colour across all machines over our two sites at Wetherill Park and Mayfield West, and to ensure repeatable, consistently high quality printed results. “It has been a gradual process but we are now a certified ISO 12647-2 Proficient Printer, and have the tools to keep it that way. “We have looked to enhance our offering to market about every three or four years, whether that be via acquisition of existing businesses or new equipment for entering new markets. Our last acquisition was Print National in 2013. “Before then, in 2011, we merged Newcastle Camera Print into the group, which extended our reach to the second largest city in NSW and the dynamic Hunter region.” David Crowther from Colour Graphic Service has been attending to colour standardisation for BPG since 2011, he performed calibrations using Mellow Colour’s PrintSpec software to interpret measured results and identify where adjustments were needed. In doing this he worked on the Screen PTR-8600 and 8800 computer-to-plate setters, four Epson proofers running Screen LabProof colour management software; a Komori LS1040P ten-colour press and a Heidelberg XL75 five-colour with coater, which came along with the Print National acquisition. Bright Print has purchased its own copy of Mellow Color’s PrintSpec colour analysis and reporting software, which will enable the company to produce its own ISO 12647-2 profiles.
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