Robert Gatto, sales and marketing director at Kayell says, “The directors of Kayell recognised the convergence of photographic and graphic arts technologies, resulting in common products between the sectors. With printing, publishing and the graphic arts forming a much larger industry, we set about assembling a product portfolio and skilled workforce to deliver the same levels of service as our pro photographic customers are used to.”
Gatto says, “Michael Lithgow and Luke Wooldridge join Kayell at the perfect time – right before PacPrint where both GMG and Kayell have booths (941 and 1026 respectively). Australian demand for GMG proofing has already shot up, mirroring the rest of the world where people wanting the best possible colour management at an affordable price have flocked to GMG software with Epson printers, abandoning so-called high-end proofing and sub-standard rips in favour of GMG – the company that helped start the whole digital proofing trend 12 years ago by writing the software for the Scitex Iris.”
Based in Melbourne, Lithgow joins Kayell having run his own company, Colorhead, consulting on colour issues and reselling Gretag Macbeth products. A Kiwi by birth, he brings 26 years of imaging expertise with him, having run professional photographic laboratories and consulted to a wide variety of businesses in the graphic arts on digital workflows, colour management and related issues.
Sydneysider Wooldridge arrives fresh from one of Australia’s top sheetfed printers, JS McMillan, where he was group colour manager and responsible for proofing and press colour in Sydney, Canberra and Brisbane. He has a thorough understanding of all premedia issues including CTP, workflow, drum scanning and colour performance on-press. A graduate of Sydney’s Ultimo campus of TAFE/UTS, Wooldridge gained his Graphic Reproduction certificate in 1995 with distinction.
At PacPrint, Kayell will have staff on the GMG, Epson and its own Kayell stands. All GMG buying customers qualify for a draw in which two four-day trips to Bangkok and Singapore are the prizes.
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