A new co-operative agreement with X-Rite allows GMG customers to access the PantoneLIVE ecosystem and colour libraries through its OpenColor and ColorProof platforms. This allows GMG customers to work globally using the same database, and to generate spot colours that meet PantoneLIVE standards and brand-owners' specifications quickly.
Victor Asseiceiro, director of GMG's Packaging Business Unit, comments: "One of the most difficult challenges facing a converter today is accurate and reliable communication of colour data between all parties in the supply chain. Pantone is the de facto method of specifying brand colours in many industries, and its integration within GMG products gives customers the most complete and accurate platform for colour proofing and management on the market today."
PantoneLIVE is a cloud-based colour management service that now maintains 22 generic packaging-relevant colour libraries for carton, flexible packaging and label applications. It has become the preferred site for leading brand-owners such as Procter & Gamble and HJ Heinz for storing packaging colour standards.
GMG OpenColor precisely predicts spot-to-process overprint and saves costs by reducing the number of press fingerprints or press trials required and reducing lengthy make-readies.
