GMG Color has developed MultiColor, a tool to enable efficient production when using digital package printing.

MultiColor sees integration between some of GMG’s key products, such as its award-winning profiling technology, the simulation of spot colours on fixed colour palette digital devices, colour accurate prediction of overprinting spot colours, and the use of the same profiles for proofing and separation.

Specifically, GMG OpenColor creates customised separation profiles based on substrates, print parameters and spot colours. These profiles can now be automatically imported into GMG ColorServer for automated colour conversion to industry-standard or custom output colour spaces. GMG SmartProfiler, which is ideal for profiling tasks in packaging and will recalibrate several printers to the same reference condition, now works on printers with up to seven-colour inks.

MultiColor has been developed to enable efficient production with fixed ink coverage and to overcome some of the key frustrations of printers investing in digital printing in the label industry, including:

  • Implementation of digital presses and difficulty matching colours, especially spot colours;
  • Lack of pre-press know-how, with demand shifting more from the press to the pre-press department; and
  • Results and possibilities of inbuilt colour management systems not deemed good enough.

GMG Multicolor is said to allow high utilisation rate of digital presses, increase capacity, deliver consistent results between digital and conventional, provide fast and reliable data preparation, reduced press make-ready time and click costs, require less proofs on-press, and deliver greater customer satisfaction in the end results and fewer iterations.

Specifically, GMG noted those using MultiColor as, ‘being able to achieve profitable digital print production; know exactly the result before being on press; print brighter colours on their digital printers, using the possibilities of the extended colour space; deliver precise colour matching across conventional flexo/offset and digital presses, with jobs easily switched between presses and sites; and use professional colour communication.’

MultiColor was due for release in June 2020, having originally been planned for launch at drupa 2020.

The launch is supported by a series of special webinars, GMG Academy On:Digital, running throughout June.

GMG MultiColor features in the 2020 technology preview, to be published in the May/June issue of Digital Labels & Packaging; register here to receive the magazine for free