PACKZ users will be able to benefit from the accurate profiling for any colour conversion
GMG will be offering OpenColor colour separation technology within HYBRID Software’s PACKZ label and packaging editor and workflow. Visitors at drupa will see how the award winning multichannel profiling software fits seamlessly within PACKZ.
Packaging is noted for print projects that include a large number of process and spot colours. The integration with GMG OpenColor will allow PACKZ to use accurate colour profiles, allowing PACKZ to use the colour conversion within its PDF editor to assure accurate transformations. This is particularly useful if the number of ink units are changed, or if the printer wants consistent representation of their brand colours.
PACKZ: Productivity tools for making designs print ready
PACKZ, from HYBRID Software, is the only professional editor for labels and packaging prepress that works entirely in the native PDF environment. Files are never converted, normalized, or “imported” into an intermediate format, but instead are edited directly as PDF files using HYBRID´s own PDF library, which was developed specifically for the demanding prepress requirements of labels and packaging. PACKZ contains a complete set of prepress-, editing- and quality assurance-functions, such as trapping, separation handling, barcode creation and recognition, dynamic creation of info panels, object based screening and many more. With its modern 64-bit architecture, running under OS-X and Windows, the native PDF-Editor ensures maximum performance and usability.
GMG OpenColor: Reliable proof profiles for packaging printing
GMG’s patented OpenColor technology enables accurate proof simulation of the overprinting effects of spot colours using special multicolour profiles. The spectral data calculation includes printing technologies, media types and printing order—and its reliable results eliminate the necessity of profile iterations. GMG OpenColor is a complete printing press simulator—even if only CMYK is printed. It can demonstrate the effect of changing the order of the colour sequence, the print density or the substrate, immediately calculating a new profile. Thus, the result of changed conditions is predicted accurately and with minimal expenditure.
The centralized storage of colour data in GMG OpenColor and the colour stability of GMG ColorProof ensure accurate results and repeatable quality.
Integrating GMG OpenColor with PACKZ, it is possible to use any GMG OpenColor proofing profile to create a GMG OpenColor separation profile directly into the PDF editor. The benefit is that only one set of accurate fingerprint characterization data is required. For example, if a print designer sends a 12-colour job that will be transformed to an extended colour gamut job, the output conversion will be created directly from the supplied GMG profile. PACKZ has ability to colour convert the entire file—or object by object or individual colours. The PACKZ engine does the conversion, but with the GMG profiling technology, using the dynamic data provided by GMG OpenColor. If a printer is already using GMG OpenColor to create colour data for proofing, then GMG separations and the integration with PACKZ will be an easy, logical step to assure accurate colour.
“GMG is very happy to be integrating our colour management and profiling tools with HYBRID Software’s PACKZ. We believe we create better colour than anyone else. We like to offer our customers as many opportunities to seamlessly apply our colour management tools as they operate other premedia solutions,” comments Paul Barnes, Product Management, GMG. “We have been working closely with HYBRID Software to combine colour profiling and conversion into one, interconnected packaging solution. We recently finalized the delivery mechanism between the two software systems, and will be starting field tests with select customers shortly. We expect that the official product release will occur no later than drupa. Ultimately, users will get much better results. It’s why people choose to implement better colour management from GMG.”
“We are very pleased to be working with GMG Software. Their colour management engine is noted as the best in the industry, and we want to ensure that anyone who uses PACKZ can benefit from the most accurate colour conversions,” remarks Christopher Graf, Managing Director, HYBRID Software GmbH. “Colour is a critical demand of any label or packaging print buyer, and PACKZ users will soon be able to assure this to their customers.”
