GAMUT: Idealliance Printing & Packaging Podcast

Viktor Lazzeri, Business Manager for Barbieri products at Color Concepts, discusses the story of the Italian technology company, Barbieri, and how Color Concepts supports Barbieri customers in the global supply chain.

Barbieri is an internationally operating manufacturer and supplier of intelligent color measurement systems that ensure the highest image quality for professional digital printing. Barbieri is a color measurement market leader for large format, flatbed, and industrial printing. 

Color Concepts B.V. and North America is the world’s largest, independent, state-of-the-art profiling and testing lab for professional digital wide-format printing industry.

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GAMUT is produced and published by Idealliance - become a member today and join us  in creating the future of our industry.

Learn more about Idealliance Certification Programs such as: G7®, BrandQ®, Color Management Professional® and Print Planning & Estimating Professional®.

This episode of the GAMUT podcast by Idealliance is sponsored by drupa - the No. 1 trade fair for printing technologies held from April 20-30, 2021 in Düsseldorf Germany.

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Michael Toth, Konica Minolta, explains how the use of Lean manufacturing practices like value stream mapping improve print manufacturing efficiency, quality, and customer expectations. Overall, company print manufacturing improvement and operational efficiency starts with the embracement of change and acknowledging that change must occur.

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Learn more about Idealliance Certification Programs such as: G7®, BrandQ®, Color Management Professional® and Print Planning & Estimating Professional®.

This episode of the GAMUT Printing & Packaging podcast is brought you by Heidelberg.

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Peter Pretzer, FUJIFILM North America Corp, delves into FujiFilm's early innovation of a cloud-based color management solution and integrating Extended Color Gamut (ECG) printing. Peter covers ECG integration process in detail, and the importance of sustainment using G7 Expert Training with easy-to-use cloud-based solutions like ColorPath™ Sync®, a Certified G7® System. FUJIFILM ColorPath™  is an award-winning suite of cloud-based color management tools for conventional, digital, and large format inkjet printing.

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GAMUT is produced and published by Idealliance - become a member today and join us  in creating the future of our industry.

Learn more about Idealliance Certification Programs such as: G7®, BrandQ®, Color Management Professional® and Print Planning & Estimating Professional®.

This episode of the GAMUT podcast by Idealliance is sponsored by drupa - the No. 1 trade fair for printing technologies held from June 16-26, 2020 in Düsseldorf Germany.

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Tim Baechle, CEO of Idealliance, passionately discusses the importance of teamwork, constant change, Holarctic business structure and knowing the importance of the whole is the sum of its parts when you are on the battlefield of business. He stresses the fundamentals of growing, communication, positive change in how accomplishing business objectives often parallel lessons learned on the battlefield, no matter what the battlefield of life may be.

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GAMUT is produced and published by Idealliance - become a member today and join us  in creating the future of our industry.

Learn more about Idealliance Certification Programs such as: G7®, BrandQ®, Color Management Professional® and Print Planning & Estimating Professional®.

This episode of the GAMUT Printing & Packaging podcast is brought you by Heidelberg.

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In this episode, Steve Upton, developer and founder of the first G7® software application, CHROMiX, discusses the beginnings of the perennial calibration method and why it has spread globally. Steve explains the core benefits of gray balance and how online color management solutions like CHROMiX Maxwell can change the quality culture inside the print and packaging supply chain.

GAMUT is produced and published by Idealliance - become a member today and join us  in creating the future of our industry.

Learn more about Idealliance Certification Programs such as: G7®, BrandQ®, Color Management Professional® and Print Planning & Estimating Professional®.

This episode of the GAMUT Printing & Packaging podcast is brought you by Heidelberg.

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Esko’s Mark Samworth, returns to discuss the tremendous value of emulation proofing for digital print and packaging production devices. Mark brilliantly explains why emulation proofing is more profitable than the common practice of proofing on an expensive digital press. He states, “When proofing on-press you create unnecessary inefficiencies and bottlenecks by interrupting a digital production device to make proofs.” With emulation proofing, you allow the print volumes on digital presses to flow and improve proof to press match. 

Mark Samworth is a leading patent holder in a variety of technology including expanded gamut printing. Mark provides insight into the value, history, and future of this technology through his experience and current work in developing standards and specifications through the Idealliance Print Properties & Colorimetric Council.

GAMUT is produced and published by Idealliance - become a member today and join us  in creating the future of our industry.

Learn more about Idealliance Certification Programs such as: G7®, BrandQ®, Color Management Professional® and Print Planning & Estimating Professional®.

This episode of GAMUT is brought you by Konica-Minolta. 

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Fred Thornton, Technical Sales Manager for Bodoni pressSign, discusses the benefits of adopting quality management software solutions for print standardization to track and monitor brand target conditions like G7®, GRACoL®, or ISO 12647-2. Bodoni pressSign is designed to help printers achieve color target standards quickly on the press. Initially created for offset, pressSign has evolved to be a leading independent color measurement software, aiding color production across printing applications, including Flexo, web, and digital.

Guest: Fred Thornton, Technical Sales Manager for Bodoni pressSign

GAMUT is produced and published by Idealliance - become a member today and join us  in creating the future of our industry.

Learn more about Idealliance Certification Programs such as: G7®, BrandQ®, Color Management Professional® and Print Planning & Estimating Professional®.

This episode of the GAMUT podcast by Idealliance is sponsored by drupa - the No. 1 trade fair for printing technologies held from June 16-26, 2020 in Düsseldorf Germany.

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K. Panthala Selvan, Managing Director, Idealliance South Asia, shares an inside view of this 250,000+ print service provider market and the standardization taking place in India's print and packaging supply chain, both in commercial and academic enterprises. The Indian print and packaging market has deeply embraced a new way of quality thinking for color in one of the fastest and may be the largest growth market in the world.

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Marc Jorge, Technical Manager of Barberan's digital single-pass inkjet solutions, discusses Barberan's automated inline quality inspection system utilizing an array of spectral devices to control color quality and image integrity. Marc also shares his very positive and impactful observations on G7® adoption in the European Market. Barberán is a leader in the design and development of digital Single Pass presses, BARBERAN, S.A., founded in 1929, is a family-owned enterprise that exports 85% of their products and their machinery is present in factories located in more than 60 countries on five continents.

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EFI's John Nate, the Senior Educational Architect and Trainer for Fiery Wide Format and Lou Prestia, Senior Market Segment Manager for Textile in the Fiery division discuss strategies and experiences helping customers maintain color consistency long term. Both Lou and John share surprising color management challenges between wide-format inkjet and digital textile printing.

This episode is sponsored by drupa - the No. 1 trade fair for printing technologies held from June 16-26, 2020 in Düsseldorf Germany. https://www.drupa.com/

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