Links
to Color Management tools Vendors
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Colorsource
engineering |
Colorsource has developed for the graphic industries a set of paying or free
standard applications allowing very fast and easy calibration of presses for
matching public ISO12647-2-3-4-6 and G7/IDEAlliance CMYK printing standards, but
also for building, publishing and communication publication their own private
CMYK and N colors standards, which is almost always requested for packaging
printing.
Colorsource software such as MagicPress and MagicPrepress are
compatible with almost all competitive 45/0° scanning spectrophotometers on the
market (X-Rite, Techkon, Konica-Minolta).
With Colorsource i1Pro 1, 2 or 3 spectrophotometers become the
most efficient X-Rite pressroom spectrophotometers. Similarly with
Konica-Minolta, MYIRO with Colorsource apps. replaces their unnecessarily
expensive FD7 model! |
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X-Rite
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GretagMacbeth and X-Rite merged in 2006. Most of the color
management hardware and software products in the new X-Rite catalog are of
course of GretagMacbeth origin.
The hardware products of the new group cover almost all the classic applications
of colorimetry in photography, in the Graphic Industries and in other
Industries. |
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Konica-Minolta
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Historical Japanese player in industrial colorimetry, Konica-Minolta are
now interested by the Graphic Industries and have marketed their first 45/0°
pressroom spectrophotometer, the Konica-Minolta FD7.
The FD7 is an unnecessarily expensive workshop spectrophotometer (like
its competitor X-Rite eXact 2), because Konica-Minolta have never listened
... those who know the real market needs.
Konica-Minolta FINALLY
have a spectrophotometer competing with the excellent X-Rite i1Pro
family: the MYIRO.
And MYIRO users
can FINALLY use Colorsource apps for calibrating their plates and
calibrating their CMYK presses, thanks to Colorsource providing the
proprietary format .xml reference files allowing to measure the CMYK
calibration charts with MYIROtools. But we wonder if Konica-Minolta
really want to sell their products to graphic industries, when they use
undocumented proprietary formats to describe their CMYK color charts! And what
about N-CLR charts? |
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Just-Normlicht |
Based in
Germany, Just Normlicht today supplement their viewing booths by a
range of interesting light measurement spectrophotometers.
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Techkon |
Based in
Germany, Techkon offer a full set of color management equipments for
the pressroom.
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Barbieri |
Based
in Italy, Barbieri offer a full set of products for color management in
photographic, prepress, and printing industries.
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Datacolor
- Colorvision |
Specialists
of industrial colorimetry, Data Color offer some entry-level solutions for
digital color printing.
Problem: Is there REALLY an entry-level market in this strategic field for
Graphic Industries?
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