Color Management from Arandell

Our customers’ catalog marketing channels need to truly represent the products they sell. Ordering a sweater from a catalog that you think is navy blue, only to receive a black one in the mail, can be quite the disappointment. Arandell’s color management technology ensures accurate reproduction of a product’s color and the proofs that you approve.

Quality Color Matching

At Arandell, quality color matching is established before your files are event sent to press. Our extensive palette of color science capabilities and precise color matching system begins at the moment we receive production files. In order to ensure accuracy, we generate a customized color-converting workflow for each photographer and work with them to make sure they capture color that converts seamlessly to web offset printing.

To ensure excellent color reproduction on press, every image is evaluated thoroughly and modified to meet exact requirements. Our experienced color specialists deliver the finest color corrections and product color matching. Their tenured experience in color conversion and product retouching allows them to understand and exceed our clients’ expectations. Our color management specialists average 20 years of experience in critical color matching.

Consistent Reliable Color Quality

Consistent and predictable color is maintained throughout the entire print production workflow. Arandell adheres to GRACoL (General Requirements for Application in Commercial Offset Lithography) 7.0 standards and utilizes calibrated monitors, scanners and color proofing devices.

To produce on our five-color presses, all RGB files must be converted into CMYK color. Arandell utilizes the Alwan CMYK Optimizer (ACP) program, a unique solution that allows us to develop custom conversion tables for each client. We can produce images and documents to normalize the color characteristics of files before sending them to prepress or to print; or before beginning the color retouching process, which helps achieve optimal print quality and proof matching while simultaneously reducing print costs.

Arandell Color Management

Arandell is anchored with precise, consistent and predictable color management. We ensure quality color service and color matching on a web offset printing press platform. Images are converted using our proprietary color matching tools and profiling tools for consistent color quality throughout. By combining accurate color management practices with the use of proven color management software with quality color proofing, we can guarantee dependable results.

Arandell’s color management capabilities include:

• Automated Quality Control and Assurance for image color standardization
• Automated Quality Control and Assurance for PDF color standardization
• Automated Quality Control and Assurance for GCR optimization
• Integrates with Arandell’s Kodak Prinergy workflow
• Solves or warns of any potential problem regarding colors and transparencies before PDF gets into the production workflow
• Includes DeviceLinks technology for Color Separation
• Improves predictability of proofs and printability of files