Experts Listing
by Company for North America

  Advance Graphic Systems Ltd.

Cy Tang
CY Tang and Advance Graphic Systems Ltd. have been working with leading printers (commercial, packaging, label and newspaper) and print buyers (multi-national commercial and packaging print buyers) in Hong Kong and South China to implement color management and digital prepress workflow for over 9 years. He is among the first to develop color management market in Hong Kong back to the year 1997. As an instructor in APTEC, he has extensive training experience. Advance Graphic Systems offers complete solutions, consultation and training on standard lighting, ICC workflow, separation, soft proofing, digital proofing, press fingerprinting, process control and digital prepress workflow. We represent high-end prepress products from Artwork Systems, GretagMacbeth, GMG, Just Normlicht and many more. We also committed to promote ISO 12647 printing standards. As a GRACoL Certified Expert, Advance Graphic Systems provides training and service for printer to qualify as GRACoL Master Printer.

  Alder Technology

Bruce Bayne
Bruce Bayne is not only a GRACoL Expert, he is a press room and workflow expert. He can qualify you as a Master Printer and can train and work with your pressmen to implement G7 correctly the first time. Alder Technology is also your source for quality training and solutions for any business relying on digital imaging, graphic layout, reproduction, print, press or where-ever correct color output is important. We specialize in color and how each component of your system affects color-output. From how the image was created or acquired through the programs it is edited in, proofed and then the devices, inks and papers the project is produced with. We go beyond looking at any singular aspect of your printing process - we look at the whole picture and make sure the color is correct and stays consistent over time.
Listed 02/06
A Color Management Group Member

Catherine Haynes
Catherine Haynes is a member of All Printing Resources' Technical Solutions Group, and has over 13 years of experience in the printing industry. She has worked in nearly all phases of the flexo printing process from press operator to graphic manager. For All Printing Resources (APR), she has consulted with a variety of flexo printers to train press operators and production artists, and to implement digital plate workflows and color management processes. APR is a fast growing sales, technical support, and distribution company dedicated to the science of flexographic printing, with over 40 years experience serving US markets. APR maintains a staff of fully-trained flexo specialists to support your printing needs, and sells both a full line of printing supplies and a broad base of products from a variety of suppliers. Their products and expertise center around taking ink "from bucket to substrate." The products they sell include ink pumps, doctor blade materials, custom-manufactured end seals, platemaking equipment and materials, plate mounting supplies, viscosity control equipment, and a wide variety of other miscellaneous items. APR is also a valuable resource for supply chain management, diagnostic services, e-commerce and customized training solutions. All Printing Resources - more than just a source... a resource.

  American Color

Mark Mueller
The American Color  print division, founded in 1926, is today one of the largest providers of commercial offset (heatset and coldset) and Flexographic printing in North America. With eight interconnected, state-of-the-art plants across the continent, our size becomes your advantage. It ensures the best print-to-market timing for your needs including printing, material placement, finishing, inserting, mailing, list services and distribution. Our premedia services have been at the cutting edge of innovation for nearly three decades. Every day, we manage and produce the highest quality retail inserts, direct mail, catalogs, publications, packaging, book and commercial content in six premedia centers coast-to-coast. And we continue to evolve today. In perfecting our fully integrated digital workflow, we have improved production with additions like our Flexo packaging prepress, remote proofing, Creo Scitex Renaissance scanning services and our top-line digital photography studios. And by providing clients with the option to keep all production on-site, our Managed Services continues to thrive at numerous customer locations. Representing American Color premedia, Elk Grove Village Illinois is Mark Mueller – Color Manager. Mark has been with American Color for 12 years, working exclusively with color management and is a certified G7 Expert.

  Bay Digital

Lee Nelson
Lee Nelson has been providing technical support to the Printing, Graphic Arts, and Photographic industries since 1975, specializing in the integration, instruction and support of color managed workflows from creation to print for top agencies, pre-media, retail, and print providers. He offers expert installation of inkjet proofing systems including press fingerprinting and G7 certification. Bay Digital is the premier technical support organization in the West for networking, servers, archiving, pre-press hardware and workflows, as well as Web-to-Print. Representing Xinet, Dalim, Press-sense, OrderSense, Raid Inc, Apple, CGS, GMG, Xrite and more.

  Cathay America

Joseph J. Pasky
Cathay America provides technical and support services to US publishers and print buyers who manufacture in Hong Kong and China. To assure only the highest quality printed products, we recommend only the best regional printers to our Western clients. These are printers who have consistently proven that they can deliver quality products, on time and on budget. Cathay America offers training and technical assistance to printers who strive to continuously improve their manufacturing process.  Western printers can also find significant advantage in working with us to find good local printers in China to develop comfortable working relationships that can be built into ‘smart partnerships’. Our 35 years of experience in the US printing Industry and our focus on pressroom operations provide a strong background for our certification by IDEAlliance as a “G7 Expert”. We provide the training necessary to help printers adopt and maintain international printing standards using G7 methodology.

  Chromaticity

Mike DiCosola, Oz Wille
Chromaticity has a long standing reputation for providing the finest support and service in the Graphic Communication and allied industries. Since 2003 Chromaticity has been applying this same service commitment as a leading value added distributor of color technology to the Graphic Communications Dealer Channel. The expertise and personal attention committed before, during, and after each sale has earned Chromaticity the status of master or preferred distributor for technology leaders like EFI, ICS, Quato, and X-Rite. Chromaticity continuously strives to contribute to important industry organizations such as SWOP, GRACoL and the IDEAlliance, and is proud to count itself as a member of the G7 Experts.

  Color Correct Solutions.

Cory Cook
Robert Seckendorf
Color Correct Solutions integrates color accuracy to any printing system in any workflow. The results Color Correct Solutions provides are highly desired by Printing, Publishing, PrePress, Design, Packaging, Marketing and Advertising organizations. Color Correct Solutions now offers G7 Expertise and can help you achieve G7 Masters qualification.
Listed 11/06
A Color Management Group Member

  ColorGeek, Inc.

Dan Gillespie
ColorGeek, Inc. provides high-end color solutions for prepress and the pressroom. We offer complete solutions for the pressroom including ink key presetting, closed loop color using X-Rite ATD, ATS, and Intellitrax, and can “Qualify” commercial printers as Master GRACOL Printers. We also have Certified ColorGeek’s who can take all of the data from the pressroom upstream for ICC workflows controlling digital proofers, soft-proofing, and separations. ColorGeek, Inc. is truly one stop shopping for commercial printers in terms of color management products and services.
Listed 02/06
A Color Management Group Member

  Digital Solutions

Angus Pady
Digital Solutions is a Canadian based colour management company. We offer a full range of services and products to ensure your workflow is optimized and running at its maximum potential. There are many facets to a customized colour management workflow. Our specialty is to look at all the variables from capture to print and offer recommendations and implementation. This can include: application setup, input profiling, monitor calibration, Proofer/Rip setup, press finger printing, training, press calibration and we are authorized to provide consulting services for GRACoL.  Additionally, Digital Solutions is uniquely authorized to read and qualify the measurements on press sheets being submitted by printing facilities for the new IDEAlliance Master Printer Program.
Listed 02/06
A Color Management Group Member

  EFI/ Vutek

Lilia Morales-Hill, Ink application Development Specialist, provides integration of the ink with the superwide digital inkjet printers to achieve high image quality and color. Lilia as been involved in the printing industry for more 15 years. Hands on experience on Prepress digital workflow for Flexo, Rotogravure and Offset. Joined HighWater Designs as field engineer and latter, Customer Support Manager; promoting colour management software, related equipment and colour consultancy. EFI™ is the world leader in digital imaging and print management solutions for the commercial printing and enterprise markets. EFI’s portfolio of integrated solutions span Production Printing, Graphic Arts Solutions, Web to Print, Print Management Information System (Print Management) and Corporate products. EFI’s VUTEk® reliable superwide digital inkjet printers have a reputation for speed, high productivity and exceptional color quality and print on a variety of substrates. Its extensive line of high-quality inks are known for purity consistency and durability. VUTEk's UV Curable Inks provide the highest quality of color on a variety of flexible and rigid media substrates.

  Fujifilm Graphic Solutions

Matt Condon and the Fujifilm Team
Fujifilm Graphic Solutions is the nation’s largest distributor of equipment, consumables and technical services for the graphic communications industry. Representing hundreds of suppliers at branch locations across the country, Enovation employs nearly 1,000 people. Enovation has created a team of experts, poised to answer questions, offer advice and help navigate customers through the ever-changing graphic arts industry. We not only help customers make sense of new technologies and developments, but we also work with them to develop the capabilities they need to operate efficiently and stay ahead of the competition.  Whether it’s information on an emerging technology or reliable delivery of supplies, customers know they can “Get It From the Experts” at Fujifilm.

 Flint Group

Cindy Harbin
Flint Group is dedicated to serving the global printing, converting, and colorants industries. Flint Group companies develop, produce and market a wide range of conventional and UV printing inks on a global basis, with regional operations that provide local service throughout Europe, North America, Latin America, Asia, and India/Pacific. Other companies in the group include Flint Group Printing Plates, specializing in photopolymer printing plates, and XSYS Print Solutions, specializing in narrow web inks. Flint Group Pigments produces a range of pigment products and additives for use in inks and other colorant applications. Headquartered in Luxembourg, Flint Group operates more than 140 facilities worldwide.  Flint Group North America, located in Ann Arbor, MI, offers G7 consulting services and works to qualify its customers as G7 Masters.

  Gans Ink & Supply

Keith Duchene
Gans Ink & Supply is a full-service ink manufacturer with 11 locations nationwide. Not only does Gans Ink & Supply produce some of the finest ISO 2846-1 compliant process inks available, we are committed to assisting printers in plugging our inks into a comprehensively color-managed workflow based on the proven GRACoL G7 method.
Listed 02/06

  Glen Andrews 

Glen Andrews
Glenn Andrews is Color Analyst for Schawk, Inc in Los Angeles, the world’s largest brand imaging solutions provider. He has implemented fully color-managed workflows adhering to the G7 appearance model across the entire production chain from softproofing through grand format inkets and conventional and UV offset presses to 77". He has participated in a range of test projects involving G7 methodology including FM screening, "Extreme" GCR, Expanded Gamut (7Color) printing, simulated backlit softproofing and more. Glen can be reached at 818 263-7789.
Listed 02/06

  Grip Digital 

Greg Imhoff, Grip Digital offers hands-on personal instructional to implement G7 live on press or in the proofing environment by precisely by matching color to GRACoL 7 specifications. To simplify specifically for press operators we also have a patent applied for solution we will share. Training is regarded as positive and interactive, customized at each client be it packaging, newspaper, or commercial print solutions as needed, into one. Centrally located in Chicago with global contacts and relationships in industry leading manufacturers and OEMs of color, Grip Digital allows you to have and understand best in class solutions applied with GRIPdigital, inc.

  Group360 Visual Communications 

Dennis Anderson
Barry Lanier
Ben Sherwood
Group360 is a St. Louis based strategic visual communications firm providing marketing communications solutions to accomplish our clients' marketing goals and objectives nationally and internationally. We are specialists in understanding the design/prepress/printing variables needed to enhance our client's visual presence in the marketplace. Group360 provides integrated services that include direct marketing, exhibits and events, marketing communications, packaging, promotions and visual merchandising. Founded in 1956, Group360 is a strategic visual communications firm providing marketing communications solutions to accomplish our clients' marketing goals and objectives nationally and internationally. We are specialists in understanding the design/prepress/printing variables needed to enhance our client's visual presence in the marketplace. From its headquarters in St Louis, Missouri. Group360 operates ten facilities and over 425 employees. As G7 Certified Experts we can train your personnel and qualify you for G7 Master status for printers and proof providers.
Listed 11/06

  H. A. Metzger

 Hutchcolor, LLC

Don Hutcheson
With over 38 years of production and R&D experience in photography, pre-press and printing, Hutcheson Consulting offers a unique level of color management training to anyone who needs accurate color, like ad agencies, art galleries, movie studios, photographers, publishers, separators, printers, and software developers. All training is customized to the customer's specific requirements. As chairman of GRACoL, Don Hutcheson brings his innovative "shared appearance" concept to international printing standards, whereby all printing methods can share a similar gray scale appearance, simply through common calibration goals.
Listed 02/06

 Kodak Graphic Communications

Jim Wilde, G7 Services Manager 
Kodak Graphic Communications provides G7 certified experts and widest choice of G7 services in the industry. The following is a list of Kodak G7 Certified Experts in the United States and Canada: Dick Presley, Terry Dwyer, John Maurer, Joe Ambro; Troy Anderson; Eileen Henry, David Home, Arjen Van Der Meulen; Pete Weishaar; Frank Burkiewicz; Rich Theis; Thomas Lester, Shaundra Toy, Patrick Chan, Gary Fye, Mohey Soliman, Randy Tartol, Jim Wilde.   For more information on how Kodak can help you with G7 services contact Jim Wilde.
Listed 04/06

 La Crosse Litho Supply, LLC

Matt Fehn, Jeff Meek, Tom Woodbury, Dennis Johnson , Mark Ellingsworth
La Crosse Litho Supply, LLC, originally founded in 1974, has successfully focused on serving the requirements of our customers by providing the utmost in products, service and support. Our primary customer base focuses on Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois and Iowa, although our continued value-added service model has allowed us to expand throughout the U.S. and Canada . We serve a number of diverse markets including offset printing, packaging/flexo and wide-format/digital printing processes. La Crosse Litho Supply, due to our high level of value-added service and support was recently recognized as the inaugural Certified Reseller of Kodak Graphic Communications in plates, film and electronics.  Matt Fehn, Digital Sales and Technology Manager, has been an integral part of La Crosse Litho Supply’s team since 1999. He has over a decade of experience in technical training and sales, and currently oversees the in-house Technical Staff of La Crosse Litho Supply. Fehn developed Color Analysis Toolkit software as a part of an extensive La Crosse Litho Supply color management offering marketed under the ColorLink™ Solutions name. Color Analysis Toolkit eliminates the subjectivity of color evaluation, and gives you the objective status of all phases of your color reproduction process. In addition to proof verification and comprehensive characterization data set analysis, the Press Tester component of Color Analysis Toolkit has been integral in helping customers since 2003. Fehn and Meek earned their G7™ Expert Certifications in 2006, and with a unique set of tools, can qualify you as a Master Printer and/or Proofing Pro as part of our comprehensive ColorLink™ Solutions program. ColorLink™ Solutions offers a color management program tailored to your requirements. Contact La Crosse Litho Supply to find out more about how a ColorLink™ Solutions program will solve all your color reproduction challenges at 800/658-9022 or info@lacrosselitho.com.

 Left Dakota

Eric Magnusson
Left Dakota was founded in 1992 and focuses exclusively upon of Color Management, and is now a leading provider of product sales, training, and ongoing service to customers implementing ICC-based color management workflows.  Left Dakota provides G7 Expertise and can assist you in acquiring G7 Master status.
Listed 11/06
A Color Management Group Member

 L.P. Thebault Company

Bret Hesler
The L.P. Thebault Company, Parsippany, New Jersey, is a premiere provider of printing, retouching, color, and premedia services. Since 1954, LPT has grown to be one of the largest privately owned printing companies in the country. LPT offers sheet fed and web printing, stochastic and conventional screening, UV and conventional inks and coatings, all calibrated using the G7 method. Bret Hesler has been calibrating proofing and printing systems for seven years, four years with LPT.

 MAN Roland
 Druckmaschinen AG

Hal Stratton
MAN Roland Druckmaschinen AG, Offenbach, is the world's second largest printing systems manufacturer and the world's market leader in web offset. MAN Roland operates out of Offenbach, Augsburg and Plauen in Germany. It employs 9,000 staff and generates annual sales of EUR 1.7 billion, with an export share of 83%. Web and sheetfed offset are its major product lines for publishing, general commercial and packaging printing. MAN Roland is the only printing press manufacturer to be a partner of the WAN (World Association of Newspapers). In North America, MAN Roland Inc. operates a network of five regional sales and service facilities, staffed by over 250 employees. MAN Roland is committed to a global standard for print and has participated in the work of GRACoL 7 and the G7 methodology. Representing MAN Roland in these efforts is Hal Stratton – Director of New Technologies.
Listed 02/06

 McGhee Consulting Group, LLC

Earl McGhee
McGhee Consulting Group, LLC provides specialized upstream and reproduction color management and systems integration for advertising, brand management, marketing communications and graphic agencies, photo studios, prepress services agencies, print providers, and in-house creative groups
Listed 06/06
A Color Management Group Member

Mike Strickler
MSP Graphic Services provides customized color management solutions and support to the printing, publishing, photographic, and creative communities. Whether performing G7 certification, installing a remote proofing system, or troubleshooting the color workflow, we give straightforward training and advice that is precisely tailored to our customers' needs and budgets. We are certified implementers for EFI Bestcolor, Caldera, ICS, and DevZeroG. For further information please contact us at info@mspgraphics.com or visit us on the web at http://www.mspgraphics.com.

 Mueller Graphic Supply 

Milan Jovanovich,,  
Mueller Graphic Supply, Inc., was founded in 1982 and has been a leading supplier of graphic art supplies and equipment ever since. Mueller Graphic Supply provides a wide array of products and solutions for the various printing market sectors, such as: commercial and web offset, packaging and flexo, large format inkjet, and digital printing. Our primary area of coverage is Wisconsin, Iowa, Northern Illinois and Upper Michigan. We are committed to serving our customers with high quality service and competitive prices to position ourselves as the leading supplier in the region. We are a progressive innovator that continues to provide our customers with the latest advancements in technology to improve your company’s overall manufacturing process and bottom-line. From Pre-press to Pressroom, Mueller Graphic Supply will work with your company to attain GRACoL-7 Certification and become trained in the G7™ Methodology. Our Certified Color Management Specialists will educate qualified personnel on the principles and techniques used in GRACoL-7 Certification, via a hands-on teach as you implement approach. Upon completion of all certification and training, your organization will possess the knowledge, tools, and skills necessary to act as an independent resource to maintain the GRACoL-7 Certification. Please Contact: Milan Jovanovich at 414-475-0990, or via e-mail milan@muellergraphics.com

 Navigator Cross-Media 

Peter Shamray, Navigator Cross-media, a color manager who actually owned a printing company before selling it in 2004. Peter has a Master of Science in Operations Research from UC Berkeley. Navigator Cross-media consults on turning printing into a streamlined, smooth manufacturing process: define your objective, adjust your parameters, and control your process. As a certified G7 expert NCM can bring your printing operation up to G7 and current international standards to help get larger jobs, jobs where color match is crucial and to provide your clients with quality results every time.

 Nazdar Consulting Services 

Greg Hansel, Tony Quinn, Mike Ruff
Nazdar Consulting Service offers color management and productivity enhancement consulting services for prepress, printers and sales departments.  Mike Ruff developed the Chromatix Color Control Program, the now internationally known productivity enhancement program for Screen Print, Digital and Flexo clients.  Mike is a certified G7 Expert and offers services to printers and prepress service providers to qualify them as G7 Experts. Mike offers services in **.  Greg is located in Minnesota. Tony Quinn is located in Kansas City.

 New Vision Consulting Services 

Mike Lewis and Geoffery Barrrentine
New Vision is a technical and marketing services organization focused on color management solutions. They were founded in 2005 and partner with manufacturers, resellers and end-users. New Vision provides services to our partners to cost effectively manage their color programs. Programs offered by New Vision include color services, marketing services, training, and e-Learning. New Vision sees itself as a strategic partner and much more than the standard third-party partner. Our staff has vast experience in the color industry which ranges from color consulting in pre-press and the pressroom to profiling to work flow integration to tradeshow support and program development. Members of our team have been in the color management business for over 20 years and have extensive knowledge of a wide variety of color management tools and RIPs. Simply said, we are the experts in color management solutions because we understand your business, technology, and ultimate goals.

 North American Color 

Mike Eddington
North American Color, Inc. is an innovative printing & prepress service provider bringing full graphic communication solutions for design, prepress, print and cross-media publishing projects since 1981. As a supplier of prepress services world wide, and being a printer ourselves, NAC understands the needs of printing companies and recognizes the benefits of the G7 methodology as it leads to a more visually consistent result from printer to printer. The G7 methodology compliments NAC's progressive approach toward servicing our clients. Michael Eddington Has been involved with prepress, color separation, color management and device calibration for the past 11 years and is currently NAC's Color Supervisor. For more information on our services, please contact us at 1-800-537-8296.

 Piccus 4 Color

David Piccus
Piccus 4 Color is a color consulting firm, concerned with implementing color management solutions, installing and maintaining color systems, printers, presses and RIPs, and training people in color management, calibration and profile generation. Clients encompass the film, photo, printing, packaging, newspaper and digital reproduction industries.  Piccus 4 Color  helps clients maintain color management control on many proofers and presses, utilizing ICC profiles and calibrations to create accurate characterizations of those devices. Piccus 4 Color has also installed and maintained many remote proofing systems placed at client's sites. These proofers are accurately predicting the color of the printing standards they have been tasked to emulate. Piccus 4 Color has significantly reduced their prepress costs by maintaining these contract proofers and presses in proper color balance. Piccus 4 Color consults and trains ICC color management software and workflows and the GRACoL 7 method.
Listed 02/06
A Color Management Group Member

 Pilot Marketing

David Hunter
David Hunter’s company, Pilot Marketing Group, has been helping companies for 12 years with their color control problems. Pilot Marketing can partner with your local dealer to ensure that you get the optimum products and services to meet your needs. David Hunter is Certified for both X-Rite and GretagMacBeth Product Solutions including GretagMacBeth packaging solutions. He has a lot of experience with both products in regard to Hi Fi color applications. He is also GRACoL 7 certified and has numerous customers running GRACoL 7 methodology in commercial, web, screen and digital technologies. Using Dave for your GRACoL 7 work will qualify you for the “Master Printer Qualification.” David has been co-instructing the “Implementing Color Management” course at PIA/GATF for the past 9 years and has been on the planning board for the PIA/GATF Color management Conference since it’s inception back in 1999 which helps keep him on the leading edge of technology, procedures and customer needs. His instructional style is very interactive and customized to each client. His relationships with all the major color manufacturers allows him to get answers and solutions in timely and effective ways.
Listed 02/06

 Pitman Company

Dwight Collier
With more than a century of service as the leading provider of imaging solutions from design to print, the Pitman Company provides the full spectrum of product and system solutions, service and support for both digital and traditional prepress and pressroom operations. Pitman also offers tailored product solutions for the specific requirements of printing market segments such as commercial printing, packaging production, newspaper publishing, wide/grand format graphics printing, and CAD technical design. Pitman is a one-source solution to the challenge of optimizing your processes, performance and profit margins. We integrate a state-of-the-art product portfolio from the industry’s leading manufacturers with outstanding technical support, process-improvement services and educational programs aimed at reducing our customer’s manufacturing costs. Our color management approach examines the entire manufacturing workflow, analysis viable options and offers tangible solutions for process profiling and calibration. Pitman G7  Experts across the country can assist you with G7 qualification.

 Prepress I.T. – Ireland and Australia

Dan Wilson
Dan Wilson founded Prepress I.T. in Bondi Beach late 1999. He has over 30 years experience in the Printing Trade, and has consulted to local, national and international companies based in Australia. Prepress I.T. provides customers service based on significant technical expertise in RIPs, servers, scanners, platesetters, PDF workflow configuration, colour management, proofing, presses (sheet-fed/web/flexo). Prepress I.T. is now "G7 Expert" qualified to offer consultancies on GRACoL print standards. Relocating to Dublin, Ireland in February 2006, Prepress I.T. looks to forge a reputation in Europe as a leading independent colour management expert through general consulting and qualifying EU and U.K. based IDEAlliance Master Printers. At the same time Dan will continue to make regular trips to Australia for print quality projects and to implement/qualify Australian IDEAlliance Master Printers. Prepress I.T.’s industry expertise and personal attention to all facets of print production ensures Customer’s expectations are fully met. For GRACoL Expert/IDEAlliance Master Printer enquiries in Australia, Ireland, UK or Europe please consult www.prepress-it.com.au for contact details.
Listed 06/06

 Prestia Consulting, Inc.

Lou Prestia

Lou Prestia has worked in the printing and packaging industries for nearly 20 years as a trainer, researcher, consultant, workflow architect, and technology evangelist. His career at Adobe Systems included work on prepress specialty products, managing the company’s in-plant prepress operation, and working with ICC color technologies in the Core Technology group. He developed color technology training programs for Adobe personnel and customers that include topics on Color Management, Workflow Architecture, PDF workflow automation, and PostScript color management. Prestia has trained hundreds of production, engineering, marketing, and sales personnel throughout the world and has developed curricula on a variety of graphic arts topics.  He holds a B.S., Printing Management and Sciences, Rochester Institute of Technology, 1990. In addition to press calibration and fingerprinting, the firm specializes in inkjet proofing system implementation, and PDF workflow development and training. The firm has a strong belief that training operators on color management tools and quality assurance techniques enables our customers to “fish for themselves” rather than to be dependent on consultants to maintain color quality. As a G7 Certified Expert, Prestia Consulting, Inc. can help your firm achieve G7 Master qualification through on-site implementation of and training on the G7 calibration methodology. For more information please contact info@prestia.com or see www.prestia.com .
Listed 03/06
A Pilot Marking Group Member

 Priority Litho

Rich Apollo
Priority Litho is a commercial sheetfed printer in the St. Louis area. They have both conventional and UV capabilities in the 29" market. Under Rich's direction, Priority Litho has successfully implemented an almost entirely stochastic product and a fully color managed workflow. Rich is available for training in G7 and color management practices, and has been calibrating and profiling presses for 6 years.
Listed 08/06

Bob Hallam, Director - Color Technology
Quebecor World Inc. is a world leader in providing high-value, complete marketing and advertising solutions to leading retailers, catalogers, branded-goods companies and other businesses with marketing and advertising activities, as well as complete, full-service print solutions for publishers. The Company is a market leader in most of its major product categories, which include advertising inserts and circulars, catalogs, direct mail products, magazines, books, directories, digital pre-media, logistics, mail list technologies and other value-added services. Quebecor World has approximately 29,000 employees working in more than 110 printing and related facilities in the United States, Canada, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, India, Mexico, and Peru. Quebecor World is part of the digital revolution. We innovate with our up-to-the-minute communications services. We combine creativity with technology to introduce new products and peak into new markets. We lead in technological innovation. We leverage our size to become the most efficient provider of flexible, integrated print media solutions to all our customers, beginning with pre-media all the way until the printed piece gets into your hands!
Listed 12/08

 Rich & Associates

Jim Rich
Rich & Associates, LLC, is a Washington D.C. area consulting and training firm that specializes in color imaging, and system integration. Rich & Associates offers a full compliment of training and calibration services that includes on-site profiling of color scanners, digital cameras, monitors, color proofing RIP setup and installation and press calibration and optimization. Rich & Associates also provides custom training for end-users. These highly successful classes include topics such as: How to Setup and Use a Color Management System and Best Color Printing Practices and GRACoL 7. These classes introduce and reinforce practical day-to-day color management methods used in press and pre-press production using the new G7 press calibration method.
Listed 02/06
A Color Management Group Member

 Rods and Cones, Inc.

Son Do, David Troutt, Anne Taylor
Since 1996, Rods and Cones has provided top-quality, workflow systems and technical services for advertising and graphic agencies, photo studios, prepress services agencies, print providers, and in-house creative groups. We evaluate a site, understand the problems and the goals, and develop a workflow that produces accurate colors from input to final proof. Our technicians are G7 certified and trained to install and customize most RIPs including EFI XF, Absolute Proof, ColorBurst, PerfectProof, Onyx and ORIS. Their level of expertise is unparalleled and their work always customized and creative. Visit http://www.rodsandcones.com/about/team.html to meet the team.
Listed 03/06
A Color Management Group Member

 Ron Ellis Consulting, LLC

Ron Ellis
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 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. Certifications: GRACoL, Xrite/Monaco, GretagMacbeth, Best/EFI XF, CGS Oris ColorTuner, GMG Colorproof, ICS Remote Director, CSE ColorBurst, EFI Oneflow, Absolute Proof and Enfocus Pitstop many additional certifications.  He can be contacted at 630-498-4553 or on his website.
Listed 02/06
A Color Management Group Member

 Roloc coloR

Trish Wales & Jim Sineath
Roloc coloR provides end-to-end color management customized to your needs. Our partners offer turn key solutions ranging from G7 Masters certification and device calibrations, to ICC profiling, incoming material surveys, process audits and remote proofing installations. We recommend stabilizing the process as a first priority at the level of your choice -- from the basics to Six Sigma. Tackling the culture change required as color reproduction moves into the world of science is a specialty. This includes building employee capability to insure adoption and successful continuation of your new G7 process. Whether it is flexo for packaging, gravure for publishing or offset for commercial, we will help you streamline your process utilizing today’s best practices.

Dan Reid
RPimaging offers hands-on engaging training in pressroom process control methods using the GRACoL 7 method, press fingerprinting, and press ICC color profiling nationally. In our pre-visit audit we identify any deficiencies that could hinder GRACoL 7 method implementation and offer suggestions that might improve press efficiencies. These suggestions might include automated scanning densitometers, spectrodensitometers, light booths, or other supplemental items that improve pressroom efficiency. We don’t stop there, and use the pressroom data upstream in prepress to calibrate your proofing systems. RPimaging is a certified training and integration partner with virtually every commercial proofing RIP including EFI ColorProof XF (BestColor), ColorBurst,, Onyx Postershop, and CGS ORIS ColorTuner. Our recommendations will meet your needs and address your concerns. Our clients include commercial, web, screen, packaging, newspaper, and reprographic markets. Contact us to learn how we can maximize your productivity while qualifying you for the GRACoL 7 Master Printer program. Call us toll free at (866) RGB-CMYK to discuss your goals or visit our web site www.RPimaging.com.
Listed 03/06
A Color Management Group Member
Located in Arizona

 Systems Solution, Inc.

Listed 02/06

  Superior Printing Ink Company

Nick Casalla, , Matt Kulengosky, & Robert Peterson
Superior Printing Ink Co., Inc., founded in 1918, is a privately owned American ink company. Our unique ability to understand the printer’s needs, and then factor this understanding into product development has earned us a major share of the U.S. commercial printing ink market. Superior’s continuing growth now extends to twenty-five manufacturing branches, two wholly owned subsidiaries (Gotham Ink Corp. and Spinks Inks), and well over two-dozen in-plant customer service locations. Our motto, 'Modern Technology / Old Fashioned Service' truly describes our company and products. Superior plays an active role in your color management effort by first supplying you with our ISO 2846-1 compliant inks and then working in collaboration with your pre-press and pressroom operations to help establish and maintain a repeatable color management process in your company.

  Top Graphics

Michael Johnston
Top Graphics, Inc. is a St. Louis based digital printing company that specializes in high-quality digital short-run four-color process jobs that incorporate variable-data and high-end finishing processes. Top Graphics produces an array of finished sales, marketing, and promotion items. The color management systems implemented by Michael at Top Graphics enable them to achieve true offset quality on both paper and plastic substrates. Color management training and consulting are services that Michael offers to maximize color fidelity and repeatability for companies that operate digital printing equipment and proofing systems

  Vertis, Inc.

Steve Smiley
Vertis is the premier provider of targeted advertising, media and marketing services, bringing integrated solutions that get results to companies worldwide. Combining targeted strategic services and comprehensive production capabilities into a single working solution, our services target high-performing consumer segments, build traffic, increase response rates and improve marketing ROI for our clients, all with the efficiency and proven effectiveness that make us leaders in our industry. To increase marketing ROI, communicate more effectively with consumers and achieve greater success in advertising, learn more about Vertis’ integrated capabilities and strategic services that now include the new G7 method.
Listed 02/06

  WyseConsul

Terry Wyse
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, G7 calibration, technical training, sales support for systems integrators, press profiling and press optimization services, pre-press techniques, calibration methods and color proofing techniques.
Listed 02/06
A Color Management Group Member
Located in North Carolina

  WYS System, Ltd.

Wilson Chung
Mr. Wilson Chung is an independent consultant and founder of WYS System Ltd. He started his career in photography and prepress from 1972 and has more than five years experience working with printing companies which are in China. He is a technical consultant of Printing Material Testing and Analytic Center of GAAHK, instructor of "Printing Skill Upgrade Scheme". He has participated some research projects including "Intelligent Color Printing Enhancement system" and "Hong Kong Printing Specifications".  WYS System Ltd. was set up in 1991 by a team of elite graphic artists and output professionals, providing quality consultant service on the set up of prepress systems. WYS sells DTP, prepress and color management products such as Adobe software, DynaLab PostScript Fonts, Epson printer, X-Rite and GretagMacbeth CMS products. We also have rich experience in HI-Fi color printing and handle products include ICISS, CoCo and Pantone Hexware.
Listed 03/06

  xpedx

William Owen
I offer prepress applications installation and training, RIP installations and training, complete color management, Networking and server management, equipment service, repair and maintenance and G7 training and consulting. Serving the Rocky Mountain Region from Montana to New Mexico.
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