CMG Company Profiles
ALDER TECHNOLOGY, INC., based in Portland, OR, with an office in San Diego, CA. was founded in 1999 by Bruce Bayne. Alder provides systems and work flow consulting, systems integration, training, support, maintenance, and sales for the Prepress and Printing industries, as well as for Graphic Arts and Advertising. Their strength is in devising custom solutions to improve employee effectiveness and maximize equipment utilization, including specialized prepress application training, digital color production, and PDF work flow. www.aldertech.com
CHROMIX, INC CHROMiX is the creator and publisher of the award-winning ColorThink color profile graphing and analysis package. We also provide the ColorValet custom ICC profiling service and recently acquired ProfileCity, becoming the largest profiling service world-wide. In addition, CHROMiX produces ProfileCentral.com, the popular online system for sharing color profiles between service providers and their customers. Tieing all this together is ColorSmarts, our combination of online technical information and newsletters and on-site technical support and training. www.chromix.com
COLORGEEK, INC provides sales, service, and training of color management related products to photographers, printers, and publishers. The company was founded by consultant and trainer Dan Gillespie in 1999 and is located in Central Pennsylvania. ColorGeek has trained in excess of 150 companies all over the country in color correction, digital proofing, color management workflows, and related digital reproduction workflows. ColorGeek is also established with many graphic arts resellers providing installations and training. www.colorgeek.com
COLOR MANAGEMENT is a Silicon Valley based distributor of color control and color management products and related services for companies including Canon, Chromix, ColorMetrix, ColorVision, Create, CSE, Epson, Eizo, EFI, GATF, Giml�, GMG, Gretag Macbeth, GTI, HCT, HP, ICS, IDEAlliance, IPAWebinars, Just Normlicht, Kodak, Left Dakota, Midstates Proofline, Onyx, Pantone, Serendipity Black Magic, Tecco, Validation Media, and X-Rite. Color Management serves as master distributor for the Color Management Group. www.colormanagement.com
COLOURMANAGEMENT.NET www.colourmanagement.net/
Digital Color Concepts offers extensive color management services including onsite color calibration and standardization , proofing, RIP profiling and installation with prepress hardware and color management software. DCC's extensive profiling experience on true solvent, eco-solvent, and aqueous inkjet printers using a variety of RIPs (Onyx, Scanvec-Amiable, Wasatch, Best Color, EFI Colorproof) uniquely positions DCC for handling jobs in the signage, grand format and specialty printing markets. DCC's team is highly qualified in handling jobs where solvent experience on heater settings and banding fixes are needed and are able to deliver unique linearization and profiling techniques, jobs including Print, Cut, Print and Cut and lamination. In traditional printing markets, DCC Specializes in EFI Colorproof XF training and has hosted 14 EFI certification classes training over 100 technicians across the US and Canada.
DIGITAL SOLUTIONS, a Toronto based company providing colour management services, products, training and support to a wide array of clients. Digital Solutions offers professionals such as graphic artists, designers, digital photographers, photo labs, sign shops and printers an affordable way to guarantee accurate colour on digital cameras, scanners, monitors and printers, throughout the digital process. www.ColourManagement.ca
LEFT DAKOTA located in Los Angeles, California is a company dedicated to providing services, products, and color management for electronic publishing. The company, founded by Eric Magnusson, specializes in consulting and selling top of the line CMS hardware and software. In addition, Left Dakota has engineered color management software solutions for the high end prepress market. www.leftdakota.com
MetaDesign has been Germanys leading corporate identity and branding agency for many years.
The name MetaDesign is synonymous with internationally acclaimed design quality and strategic consulting for complex corporate identity processes.
At the agencys offices in Berlin, Zurich and San Francisco, some 250 staff members work for international clients. www.metadesign.de
McGhee Consulting Group, LLC. We provide specialized upstream and reproduction color management and systems integration for advertising, brand management, marketing communications and graphic agencies, photo studios, prepress services agencies, print providers and in-house creative groups.
PICCUS 4 COLOR is a Utah based color management company specializing in installing and maintaining RIPs, generating profiles, and training. Founded by David Piccus, Piccus 4 Color maintains a complete computer to plate workflow with state of the art proofing at a high end printing facility. This has included installing and maintaining sixteen remote proofing systems at client's sites, significantly reducing prepress costs. The company consults and trains in ICC color management software and work flows for clients in the film, photo, printing, newspaper, and digital reproduction industries, as well as setting up proofers and RIPs to accurately predict color output. www.piccus4color.com
PIXL APS is a Danish based color management consultant company, working throughout Europe and Scandinavia, and occasionally in the USA. We specialize in analyzing, setting up and/or streamlining complete workflow's from Photography, scanning, imaging, prepress, proof though print. We also specialize in training and education on subjects related to digital imaging, as well as all aspects of color management. Pixl are resellers/distributors of a wide range of color management equipment and proofing solutions, ranging from GMG, GretagMacbeth, Alwan Color and many others. Clients range from large scale publishers and pre-press companies, printing-plants, graphic designers, advertising agencies and photographers as well as image libraries. Pixl was founded by Thomas Holm and Nils H. Christensen in '99 and has since then been on the bleeding edge of color. www.pixl.dk
RICH AND ASSOCIATES, Rich & Associates provides custom training for end-users. These highly successful classes include how to setup and use a color management system and how to use Photoshop to color correct and retouch images for all levels of users. These classes can be delivered on-site or at the Rich & Associates offices. www.ecolortools.com
RODS AND CONES, INC., located in the San Francisco Bay Area was launched by graphic designer Erica Aitken, and technician Son Do in 1996 with a goal of providing color management services in the areas of creating and installing profiles, conducting training, troubleshooting work flows, and developing better color management systems. Rods and Cones soon became a valuable ally for Apple Computer in the development of ICC profiles for customers, allowing them to utilize and take advantage of ColorSync. The company was brought into Apple's key accounts to develop color management solutions -- conducting many events together. Rods and Cones was an integral part in the conversion of Macy's West photographers from film to digital, as well as their renowned in-house prepress department from CMYK to RGB. www.rodsandcones.com
Ron Ellis Consulting is a New England-based consultant company specializing in color management, workflow training, and prepress integration. The company has provided installation and training services to dealers, manufacturers, and content creators since 1986. Ron Ellis covers a wide range of proofing systems, rips, and workflow techniques ranging from installation of a single proofer to an entire workflow that ties all components together. In addition to color management services, he is published frequently in New England Printer and Publisher and other PIA affiliated magazines, and has produced training materials for numerous printing industry vendors. He can be contacted at 603-498-4553 or through his web site at www.ronellisconsulting.com.
WYSECONSUL, based in the Charlotte, North Carolina area, is a consulting firm that specializes in color management implementation, color systems analysis, and system integration. WyseConsul provides hands-on color management consulting for scanning, digital photography, front-end workflow systems, pre-press, color-proofing, press profiling and optimization, and all phases of print production. www.wyseconsul.com
RPImaging, located in Tucson AZ, has for over decade resolved color matching challenges in companies ranging from traditional sheetfed and web printers, grand format printers, Fine Art Giclee, and reprographic markets to professional photography studios and advertising/branding companies. We serve clients nationwide.www.rpimaging.com
LACROSSE LITHO, La Crosse Litho Supply is the premier graphic arts distributor to the Upper Midwest with a growing national customer base. The company’s technical expertise and corporate partnerships with industry-leading manufacturers such as Kodak, Agfa and Presstek support the top equipment and consumable products for commercial, digital, flexo, wide-format printing and more. Our proprietary color management system, known as ColorLink™ Solutions, is performed by our on-staff G7™ Certified Experts. La Crosse Litho Supply was named to the 2007 Inc. 5000 list of America’s fastest-growing privately-held companies. www.lacrosselitho.com
PREPRESS I.T. LTD., Prepress I.T. Limited, established in 2000 in Sydney, Australia and founded by Dan Wilson, whose experience spans over 30 years. Prepress IT’s support is backed up with expert knowledge that is a rare intersection of fundamental understanding of printing processes, printing presses, colour management, prepress systems, and information technology. Prepress I.T. focuses on “Best of Class” solutions and continues to forge a reputation in Europe as a leading independent colour management expert through general consulting and qualifying UGRA and / or IDEAlliance G7 Master Printers.
