More than 150 industry delegates attended DES’s Pathways to Profit' seminars last week with organisers pleased with the stronger than expected turnout from Melbourne and Brisbane.

Visual display manufacturer EIZO Oceania has announced the availability of the new Flexscan SX2262W high-resolution 22-inch monitor, which the company says is aimed at anyone who regularly manipulates imagery of their computer screen.

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In early December, members of NIPPA travelled to Auckland for their Eastern Branch Meeting hosted at Konica Minolta’s Auckland head office. Over two dozen New Zealand NIPPA members and three invited guests from Australia made the journey to participate in the meeting, sneaking a preview of three new Konica Minolta products, networking and sharing future roadmaps

NEC Australia has released a new colour calibration software package designed for users in the graphic design, digital animation, photography, print production. The company says the SpectraView II delivers highly accurate, reliable, repeatable and feature-rich display calibration and profiling solution.

GMG, supplier of colour management and proofing solutions, announced today that several of the company's proofing systems have received the FOGRA certifications 47L and 39L plus the FOGRA certification for halftone proofing.

GMG, supplier of colour management and proofing solutions, has announced that several of the company's proofing systems have received the FOGRA certifications 47L and 39L plus the FOGRA certification for halftone proofing.

Solutions provider Frontline Technologies will supply the new GMG colour profiling solution, GMG SmartProfiler, which according to GMG, allows users to create high quality ColorServer profiles without profound knowledge of colour management.

Media, imaging and graphic arts supplier Kayell Australia says it is leading the charge for comprehensive standards within the digital colour printing sector with the release of the ISO 12647-8 validation digital printing standard.

Solutions based company Frontline Technologies will supply the new GMG DotProof XG (extended gamut) module, an option for its GMG DotProof and GMG FlexoProof digital proofing solutions.

The Australian ISO colour standard ISO 12647.2 is a already a no brainer cost saver for large printing houses however the standard is set to become mainstream amongst small to medium printers as customers become more knowledgeable and demand certification, printers heard at a seminar in Sydney.

GMG, developer and supplier of high-end colour management and proofing solutions, has established a subsidiary in Japan this month. GMG Japan, headed by Kazutami Ando, is responsible for organising the distribution of the GMG’s software solutions, logistics and technical support.

The Graphic Arts Services Association of Australia (GASAA) has appointed CMYKit as a Premier Approved Colour Consultancy (PACC), as the industry association continues to establish strategic arrangements with preferred suppliers across a range of business and technical areas.

The new High Chroma toner technology from Konica Minolta is designed to produce vivid colours replicating the RGB colour space on CMYK output

Fuji Xerox New Zealand has launched its colour managed workflow solution in a bid to make proofing and colour management a more exact science and less of a guessing game

Strength in its portfolio and confidence in the future was how Juergen Krufczyk, national business manager, Graphic Systems Division, Fujifilm Australia, described his company at PacPrint.

Fuji Xerox New Zealand has launched a colour management workflow solution which, it says, enables colour matching across multiple print output devices, and the production of print to international standards such as SWOP, GRACoL and FOGRA.

Speaking at an industry summit last week, colour management experts said that improved communication will help make a general understanding, and implementation, of colour management standards a reality in the New Zealand.

Heidelberg has launched a new gray balance optimisation function for its Prinect Toolbox, which provides a new and innovative solution within the Prinect print shop workflow.

Heidelberg has launched a new gray balance optimisation function for its Prinect Toolbox, which provides a new and innovative solution within the Prinect print shop workflow.

Heidelberg has launched a new gray balance optimisation function for its Prinect Toolbox, which provides a new and innovative solution within the Prinect print shop workflow.

Frontline Technologies has placed a call challenging printers, publishers, designers and agencies to boldly go into the final frontier of colour space by attending an ISO standards industry summit later this month.

While switching to digital printing can create headaches for some, management and staff at Delta Copy found the transition from copy shop to printing a painless process

Australian printers should implement ISO colour standards before they are forced to by their clients, Andreas Kraushaar – international colour standards expert – told industry representatives at industry dinners in Australia this week. Kraushaar also said that a standard was only as good as the people actively involved.

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Using colour management as a competitive and profitable tool will underpin the industry messages from one of Europe’s leading colour management experts during a series of dinner meetings in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane during February 2009.

Singapore-based media company Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) has ordered 24 additional printing couples from Goss International for its existing Goss Colorliner presses to increase colour capacity.

Wellington-based commercial printer The Colour Guy is leveraging the power of digital print to grow its business with a new iGen3 digital production press from Fuji Xerox

Earlier this year, Océ introduced its CrystalPoint colour technology, and the product destined to leave all in its wake: the Océ Colorwave 600

Heidelberg will hold an Anicolor open house on December 2 at its Auckland showroom.

While accurate proofing always offers challenges of one sort or other, conventional four-colour proofing in newsprint or commercial print has been mastered for some years now by a large range of proofing systems. But printing and proofing spot colours still offers a challenge for most printers and vendors of proofing systems. Digital Dots has conducted a test of proofing systems, where the test form contains the normal four process colours, plus six selected spot colours