The new GMG ColorServer 5.2

Optimized for multicolor

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The new GMG ColorServer Multicolor

Different printing conditions, various substrates, productions on a global scale, and the use of spot colors. A wide range of parameters provides for a variety of tasks when preparing print data. GMG’s experience and research have shown us that we can best support these different challenges with three tailor-made solutions: ColorServer Conventional, ColorServer Digital, and ColorServer Multicolor.

ColorServer thus specifically addresses different market segments, such as conventional printing or CMYK digital printing. With the multicolor version, we address customers who produce on a cross-process basis and use spot colors – primarily in the packaging market.

All three solutions contain the award-winning profiling technology GMG OpenColor, which is particularly easy and intuitive to use either directly or via GMG SmartProfiler. And customers from the offset sector can be pleased that GMG InkOptimizer is now also integrated into the solution.

GMG ColorServer Multicolor

Spot colors are used particularly frequently in packaging printing. But how do you accurately reproduce spot colors in digital printing? And how can jobs be flexibly exchanged between conventional- and digital print? Fundamental questions like these make the implementation of digital printing systems so demanding. ColorServer Multicolor is the answer to all of these questions. It has never been easier to reliably prepare accurate print data for virtually every printing process and every ink set, ensuring consistent results, and reducing costs at the same time.

GMG ColorServer Digital

Digital CMYK printing is used in many market segments: large format printing, advertising, or even packaging printing. Short print runs or personalization are only two strengths of digital print. Quality requirements of customers are in most cases summed up as follows: Achieving the right color is a must – even for urgent projects or repeat orders. If you want consistent results in digital printing and you have to reproduce brand colors in CMYK, GMG ColorServer Digital is the perfect solution.

GMG ColorServer Conventional

GMG ColorServer Conventional offers powerful print data conversions and enables exact profiling for conventional printing processes. PDFs can be converted into any industry-standard such as PSO or GRACoL. The integration of GMG OpenColor enables the seamless conversion of user-defined standards and spot colors into CMYK. ColorServer Conventional supports offset-, flexo- and gravure printing. The solution is optimized for both commercial- and packaging printing.

2023 promises an interesting ride for print in India

Indian Printer and Publisher founded in 1979 is the oldest B2B trade publication in the multi-platform and multi-channel IPPGroup. While the print and packaging industries have been resilient in the past 33 months since the pandemic lockdown of 25 March 2020, the commercial printing and newspaper industries have yet to recover their pre-Covid trajectory.

The fragmented commercial printing industry faces substantial challenges as does the newspaper industry. While digital short-run printing and the signage industry seem to be recovering a bit faster, ultimately their growth will also be moderated by the progress of the overall economy. On the other hand book printing exports are doing well but they too face several supply-chain and logistics challenges.

The price of publication papers including newsprint has been high in the past year while availability is diminished by several mills shutting down their publication paper and newsprint machines in the past four years. Indian paper mills are also exporting many types of paper and have raised prices for Indian printers. To some extent, this has helped in the recovery of the digital printing industry with its on-demand short-run and low-wastage paradigm.

Ultimately digital print and other digital channels will help print grow in a country where we are still far behind in our paper and print consumption and where digital is a leapfrog technology that will only increase the demand for print in the foreseeable future. For instance, there is no alternative to a rise in textbook consumption but this segment will only reach normality in the next financial year beginning on 1 April 2023.

Thus while the new normal is a moving target and many commercial printers look to diversification, we believe that our target audiences may shift and change. Like them, we will also have to adapt with agility to keep up with their business and technical information needs.

Our 2023 media kit is ready, and it is the right time to take stock and reconnect with your potential markets and customers. Print is the glue for the growth of liberal education, new industry, and an emerging economy. We seek your participation in what promises to be an interesting ride.

– Naresh Khanna

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