NEIL BARSTOW: Formerly a prominent UK advertising photographer, Neil is now recognised as a leading Colour Management and Imaging Consultant with colourmanagement.net. Clients include image libraries, publishers, artists, universities, illustrators, magizines, photo labs, art schools, hardware and consumables manufacturers, designers, fine art printers and galleries, pre-press bureaux and photographers. Driving Neil's work is the integrity of the image, from digital capture or scan, through editing, proofing or softproofing and finally to ink on paper. Services include beta testing, implementation and installation of: Colour Management Solutions, proofing RIPs, icc profiling, fine art printing RIPs, personal or group training and seminars. International speaking engagements include GATF, MacWorld, Apple UK and to UK industry bodies such as BIPP and AOP. Read more...

BRUCE BAYNE, PRESIDENT, ALDER TECHNOLOGY: Bayne brings over twenty-five years of experience in the printing industry in both production and management at several newspapers, web and sheetfed plants, color trade shops, as well as with national supply company, Momentum Graphics. Bayne is one of the founders of the Pacific Northwest Color Management User's Group, and has spoken on work flow and color management. Bayne focuses his consulting efforts on specialized prepress application training, system integration, digital color production, PDF work flow, and process control management. Read more...

SON DO, CO-FOUNDER, RODS AND CONES, INC.: With a BS in Bioengineering from UC Berkeley, Do provides technical expertise and insight on color management and its integration into a digital work flow. He has a wide range of experience working with design and advertising firms, prepress, printing companies, and digital photography. Do is an accredited Adobe instructor and teaches Photoshop, Illustrator, and QuarkXpress. Additionally, Do has also spoken at Seybold, Photo Plus East, MacWorld, and the GATF Color Conference. Read more...

RON ELLIS, OWNER, RON ELLIS CONSULTING, LLC: Ron Ellis is a New England-based consultant specializing in color management, workflow training, and prepress integration. He has provided installation and training services to dealers, manufacturers, and content creators since 1986. Ron covers a wide range of proofing systems, rips, and workflow techniques ranging from a 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. Read more...

DAN GILLESPIE, PRESIDENT, COLORGEEK, INC: Dan has been working in the graphic arts industry for the past 15 years as an installer, trainer, and color specialist. He has extensive knowledge of digital imaging, desktop publishing, prepress, and printing. Dan is an Adobe Certified Training Provider (ACTP), a Certified Technical Trainer (CTT), and is accredited with many other color related industry certifications. He has been specializing in installing proofing systems and setting up complete color workflows for the past 10 years. Dan has worked with some of the biggest ad agencies, service bureaus, and printing companies in the country providing training and consulting services. Read more...

THOMAS HOLM, FOUNDER, PIXL APS: is a former advertising and commercial photographer who now exclusively work in color management. Thomas interest in color originates out of years frustration of seeing beautiful images being 'ruined' in reproduction. As an pioneer of high-End digital photography ('92) prepress and press knowledge quickly became a necessity for survival, as well as an area of immense fascination. Thomas has worked in both printing and prepress which, coupled with his knowledge of Photography, gives unique qualifications in building complete workflow's, as well as translating photographic 'lingo' to publishing. Thomas has, among many other things, built complete workflow's for two of Denmark's biggest publishers (around 40 monthly magazines printed in 4 countries) ensuring predictability, and instituting quality control in all steps of the process to minimize error and generally improve quality. Thomas enjoys to teach both imaging and color management and was the first Adobe Certified Training Provider in Denmark. He is also a passionate and popular seminar speaker, who has spoken at countless seminars in Europe. Read more...

ERIC MAGNUSSON, PRESIDENT, LEFT DAKOTA: In his 12 years of experience in the electronic publishing industry, Magnusson has worked at leading edge companies such as Quark, Inc., Pre-Press Technologies, Light Source, Inc., and Live Picture, Inc., as well as co-founding the QuarkXTension distribution company, XChange. Read more...

LIDA JALALI MARSCHKE, OWNER, COLOR MANAGEMENT: With a BS in Marketing from Radford University, a MBA from George Washington University and over over twenty years of technical, training, sales, and marketing experience in the Graphic Arts and Publishing industries, Jalali, is a well-known industry leader. In addition to establishing the west coast division of Pilot Marketing Group, Jalali spent six years in graphics and account management at Aldus, and another four years in client services at Schawk. Jalali also worked at Apple Computer, Inc. as the Commercial Publishing Graphic Arts Evangelist, where she focused on representing core technologies including ColorSync. lida@colormanagement.com

STEPHAN MARSICO, DIGITAL COLOR CONCEPTS: DCC's founder, Stephan Marsico, worked for a national distribution company, Tekgraf, for 11 years. During that time, he worked directly with manufacturers, X-Rite, HP, Epson, Canon, Mutoh, 3M, Intelicoat, and many more. Stephan aided in the distribution model, which bridges the capabilities of the manufacturer to the needs of the end-user. Read more...

EARL MCGHEE, MCGHEE CONSULTING GROUP: is a Chicago-based consultant specializing in color management, workflow training, and prepress integration. He has provided installation and training services to dealers, manufacturers, and content creators since 1996. Earl 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. He can be contacted at 708-205-4611 or through the color management web site at www.colormanagement.com .

AGNUS PADY, OWNER, DIGITAL SOLUTIONS: 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. Angus Pady writes a monthly article for The Graphic Arts Magazine covering topics relating to colour management and colour control. Read more...

DAVID PICCUS, OWNER, PICCUS 4 COLOR: Piccus has consulted and trained a wide variety of clients using ICC color management software and work flows including Monaco, Creo, Gretag Macbeth, and ColorBlind. A large part of his work has also been setting up proofers and RIPs to accurately predict color output using BEST, ColorBurst, Brisque, Prinergy, and others. Piccus was the Technical Support and Training Manager for ITEC -- Color Solutions, Inc., creators of the ColorBlind suite of software, for over 4 years. He has extensive experience in the high-tech aspects of color management, such as photography, lithography, large format and digital color reproduction. Additionally, Piccus teaches color management procedures in both the production and development environments. Read more...

JIM RICH, RICH & ASSOCIATES: Jim Rich is a well know imaging expert with over 30 years of black and white and color reproduction experience. He is the president of Rich & Associates, a Washington, D.C. area consulting firm that focuses on end-user issues that range from how to use black and white and color imaging applications, integrating digital imaging methods into traditional printing workflows, color management and systems calibration as well as end-user training programs. Jim has been working with Photoshop since 1989 and has authored three Photoshop books. His latest Photoshop book is titled the Photoshop 6 Color Companion. Read more...

FLORIAN SUESSL, BERLINER METADESIGN AG : Florian Suessl is Director Technology at Berliner MetaDesign AG and vice chairman of the European Color Initiative, with special contribution to the Altona Testsuite, the ECI offset profiles and the ECI/bvdm Gray Control Strip. He chairs the technical advisory board of the prepress department at FOGRA and is a member of German delegation in the ISO TC 130 where he is actively involved in standardization projects. Read more...

ANNE TAYLOR, RODS AND CONES, INC : Anne W. Taylor brings a strong understanding of traditional and digital imagery with over 15 years of hands-on experience in the high-end prepress industry. In 1992, she began working independently as a digital prepress and color management consultant and trainer to color trade houses, printers, design agencies, photo labs, and digital image archives. In 2000 she took a four-year hiatus from independent consulting and worked full time for Corbis, a key client of seven years. Her responsibilities included researching, establishing, and implementing image quality standards, color management workflows, submission standards and procedures. This involved digital image training and support of sales personnel, editors, production staff, vendors, photographers, and clients worldwide. Read more...

STEVE UPTON, CHROMiX, INC: Steve Upton is president of CHROMiX Inc, a Seattle-based firm providing color management products, consulting, training, and technical support to visual content creators in various industries. He is the creator of the award-winning ColorThink color profile graphing and analysis package and also speaks at user groups and trade shows including MacWorld, Seybold Seminars and the GATF Color Conference. With years of computing and photographic experience, and a degree in computing science and optics, Steve is uniquely qualified to manage color fidelity in the digital realm. Read more...

KEVIN WILSON, ALDER TECHNOLOGY: Wilson provides technical support, systems integration, building customized servers and high-end workstations for graphics and prepress. Before joining Alder, Wilson taught Design and Prepress work flows as part of the Eastern European Training Institute in Ukraine, Russia, and Romania. In addition, Wilson helped to establish the School of Digital Communications at Media Village in Altenstieg, Germany, and was Information System Manager for ArtLab Europe. Read more...

TERRY WYSE, PRINCIPAL, WYSECONSUL: With 25 plus years of printing experience and a practical approach to color-calibration and color matching, Terry implements high-quality color matching solutions that make WyseConsul customers revered. Terry's expansive knowledge and relaxed approach makes him comfortable working with clients of different technical levels. Terry offers a wide-range of imaging services that include; enterprise color management, technical training, techical sales support for systems integrators, press profiling and press optimization services, pre-press techniques, calibration methods and color proofing techniques. Read more...