GMG Color has introduced advanced colour options for HP PageWide digital corrugated presses, claimed to ‘meet standards for any converter worldwide’.
The new GMG Corrugated Solution, designed in collaboration with HP, includes GMG’s colour management software and proofing media, along with training and consulting for converters.
Italy’s Ghelfi Ondulati is one of those to have adopted the GMG-HP combination, with the converter’s digital printing programme manager, Luca Simoncini, commenting, ‘Moving to GMG colour management allowed us to significantly simplify and automate the prepress workflow.’
Ghelfi Ondulati operates an HP PageWide T1170 press for high-volume corrugated packaging.
Mr Simoncini continued, ‘The print output has become predictable and repeatable. I am convinced that this was a fundamental development in our project, and I hope that the collaboration between HP and GMG will strengthen the integration even more.’
GMG’s colour management technologies – most notably GMG ColorServer Multicolor – are tailored to work seamlessly with the HP One Package Workflow Suite to enable converters to make a smooth transition into digital printing. The new bundled technology offers HP PageWide users optimal and repeatable colour results, it is claimed, with a proof-to-press match. It further provides cost and time savings on test print runs and implementation of jobs, while increasing press capacity. Profiling and recalibration re streamlined, while make-ready time is reduced, data conversion automated, and customers are better served through correct handling of colour expectations.
With GMG ColorServer an important component of the GMG Corrugated Solution for HP, print providers can be confident that wherever the colour management system is installed, it will deliver the same results from a production file – no matter the facility. The GMG Corrugated Solution for HP assures maximum accuracy when converting data from conventionally produced jobs created with industry standards such as FOGRA39 and GRACoL to the colour space of an HP digital press. Using GMG ColorProof will also ensure reliability across a range of proofing and measuring devices in multiple locations.
Ran Lev, workflow solutions manager, HP PageWide Industrial at HP, said, ‘The GMG solution for HP PageWide C500 and T1100 series presses will enable our customers to meet the growing needs from brands to certify and comply to colour standards, while opening new collaboration opportunities on colour sensitive national and multi-national campaigns.’
Darrian Young, GMG global partnership manager, said, ‘With our solutions for digital packaging printing, GMG customers can be confident in their colour and data preparation – for conventional or digital printing. This brings them efficiencies and decreases makeready efforts by 30-40%.’
