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Bethesda, MD	Jim Rich
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About the Company

The mission of Rich & Associates is to help our clients with color imaging and color management. The main focus of R&A is to provide information in the form of training and consulting about reproducing black and white and color images, color calibration, color management. We offer a variety of services that include: * How to use Color Management * Studio and press calibration services * Pre-press calibration and profiling training * Color management for designers * Overview of color management * Print for pay color management * How to Setup a color management system * Inkjet color proofing installation and setup * Color/ Workflow assessment services * How to implement Gracol 7 * Press profiling * Instructional Systems Design for the Graphic Arts

Our Clients

Current & Past Clients include: Adobe Systems, AGFA, Air Force News, the American Indian Museum, the Army Times Publishing Company, the Asbury Park Press, Bladen Lithographics, Bozek Desktop, Chesapeake Systems, U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Freer and Sackler Gallery or Art, Graphic Arts Technical Foundation, U.S. Government Printing Office, Hewlett Packard, the International Monetary Fund, Maryland Institute College of Art, the Newspaper Association of America, the National Newspaper Association, the National Geographic Society, Monaco Systems, Montgomery College, the Naval Research Laboratory, the National Gallery of Art, the Polaroid Corporation, the Photo Marketing Association, Rochester Institute of Technology, R.R.Donnelley & Sons, SAS Graphic Supply, the U.S. Senate Photographic Services, the Smithsonian American History Museum, Seybold Seminars, Studio H, VCT Training, the Washington Post, the White House, Xerox.

Markets
Language(s): English
Regions Served	Markets Served Advertising/Design/Illustration Fine Art Printer Flexography Lithographer Newspaper Packaging Photographer [Photo Agency] Photographic Lab Production Art/Prepress Screen Printing Wide/Grand Format [non fine art]

Qualifications
Software/RIP/Workflow Experience Adobe CGS Oris ColorTunerColorBlind ColorBurst Ergosoft GretagMacbeth ICS Remote Director MonacoProfiler Onyx PosterShop PDF/X Pantone Quark Screen TrueFlow Wasatch X-Rite	Special Skills Color Management Color Reproduction Develop custom house standard Digital Image Processing Digital or film based Proofing Matching Color Proof to Press Press checks Pressroom Development of procedures and policies Pressroom Equipment evaluations/recommendations Pressroom Optimization Pressroom Training Printing Standards [US] Printing to SWOP or GraCol Process Control Process Control in Print Production Project Management Transition from film to CTP	Certified Trainer/Installer GRACoL 7 Method