TheColour Doctor – David Crowther of Colour Graphic Services – has brought backthe free Colour Health Check service – valued at $495 - for all printers, untilOctober 31. First offered at Printex 2015, it proved very popular, especiallywith wide format, digital and offset printers experiencing colour variations.
“Wedid many of these at, and in the weeks following, Printex and I was looking forsomething to offer the market so thought ‘why not bring them back for free?’”says Crowther.
“It’seasy for an offset, digital, flexo label or wide format printer to initiate. Wesend a special test forme, or control strip, which is printed on the selecteddevice and sent back to us. Using ISO 12647 as the benchmark, we thoroughlyanalyse the printed result using Mellow Colour Printspec and Techkoninstruments and produce a detailed report on the results and where colourissues might be found in the production workflow.
“ThePDF test forme file, for digital and wide format, we send in advance is big, upto 180 Mb, so either high bandwidth or a file sending service such as DropBoxor SendStuffNow can be used. It’s a PDF so can easily be put into the workflowand printed out. We can provide a test forme or control strip for offset,digital, narrow web and wide format so it is important to know what deviceprints it out.”
ForColour Graphic Services to visit a printer, produce the test forme, measure and report costs $495 in the Sydney metro area, so the free service is a reallygood saving, arming a printer with some very useful knowledge about theirprinting output devices.
Click here to secure your free colour health check or email info@colourgraphicservices.com