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G7+ introduces advanced calibration and verification algorithms for new technologies, preserving the familiar features and overall appearance as legacy G7

Achieving consistent, reliable, repeatable colour across multiple devices and a wide range of media is a real challenge for sign, print and graphics businesses across the sector.

'The Colour Doctor' David Crowther of Colour Graphic Services (also Idealliance Australasia) has introduced two special offers to help and assist printers around Australia to standardise their colour and benefit from the savings that brings.

'The Colour Doctor' David Crowther of Colour Graphic Services (also Idealliance Australasia) will use PacPrint for the first outing of a new range of colour management tools.

G7® Expert certification live online training is on again in May 2022. Presented and conducted by David Crowther of Colour Graphic Services and Idealliance Australasia.

Colour Graphic Services, the Australian colour management, G7 Expert and ISO specialists, also dealer for the highly-rated Myiro spectrophotometers in Australia and New Zealand.

G7® Expert certification live courses are returning in 2022, conducted by David Crowther of Colour Graphic Services and the Idealliance. A refreshed and updated programme will provide certified training as G7 Expert or G7 Professional, reflecting all the latest developments in cutting-edge print technologies and colour management.

Colour Graphic Services, the Australian colour management, ISO and G7 specialist, is pleased to announce its appointment as dealer for the Myiro-1 and Myiro-9 spectrophotometers in Australia and New Zealand.

UK Colour Management software developer Mellow Colour, represented here by David Crowther's Colour Graphic Services, has found that its ImpressionProof and MellowCloud job approval applications are getting around Covid restrictions and lockdowns.

Colour Graphics Services, the Australian distributor for Techkon colour measuring instruments, is please to announce the availability of Techkon’s ChromaLT – a ‘lite’ version of the Chroma software.

Idealliance, the global think tank, standards developer and certifying body for ISO, G7® colour specification and brand supply chain management programs and consulting, has appointed David Crowther of Colour Graphic Services to head its Australasian office, based in Sydney.

Perth, December 19th 2019 - David Crowther, the Colour Doctor of Colour Graphic Services has recently returned from Perth with the news that leading WA printer Scott Print has achieved an Australian/NZ-industry first by attaining Mellow Colour Proficient Printer.

David Crowther, the Colour Doctor of Colour Graphic Services has attained G7 Expert status having recently attended the G7 Professional Training course held at Heidelberg USA’s Kennesaw, Georgia headquarters.

Colour Graphic Services ready to show the best way to deliver perfect and repeatable colour on its PrintEx stand

No sooner released onto the world market than a local printer has ordered the latest in plate measurement technology. Techkon, the multiple award-winning, high-end German print technology manufacturer has released an updated SpectroPlate device for measuring and checking offset plates.

"The whole Printflow - PrintSpec-Techkon upgrading has revolutionized the way we do colour control." - David Schoemaker, Print Supervisor

Whether it is environmental happenstance or sheer dedication to the craft of printing, Western Australia is leading the way in the uptake of the ISO 12647-2:2013 colour standard for offset lithography. Whatever the reason, people in the mighty western state of Australia have exceptional appreciation for colours; none more so than Advance Press. We visited them...

Recently, Worldwide became one of the first printers in Australia to move up to the latest ISO 12647-2:2013 standard. Worldwide Cannington’s culture is about colour excellence, this being assured by completing Mellow Colour ISO 12647-2 Proficient Printer certification for its offset workflow...

“This new industry standard, ISO 20654:2017, has been designed specifically for spot colour inks and to replace older methods of dot gain/dot area calculations which fall short when used with spot color inks.”

David Crowther’s Colour Graphic Services enjoyed its best PacPrint ever thanks to its intense focus on colour management and two visiting Techkon executives, Albin Baranauskas and Corinne Pèregaud.

David Crowther’s Colour Graphic Services has a colourful coral reef theme for its PacPrint display on B62 and has pledged 5% of total orders placed at the show will be donated to the Great Barrier Reef Foundation. The theme is ‘Colour Lives Here.’

Techkon’s managing director, Albin Baranauskas, will be presenting a free workshop at May’s PacPrint exhibition in Melbourne. Local distributor Colour Graphic Services will welcome Baranauskas on his first visit to Australia. The topic is Efficient use of Spectrophotometers for colour quality control...

David Crowther of Colour Graphic Services has confirmed that two high-ranking executives from German colour measurement firm Techkon will visit PacPrint in May and will be working from his stand B62 at the Melbourne trade fair.

On the outer fringes of Sydney, at Ingleburn; Easy Signs has conquered colour consistency by calling in the Colour Doctor – David Crowther of Colour Graphic Services. Easy Signs was established in 2006 at Miranda, 26 kilometers to the East, closer to Sydney CBD...

Colour Graphic Services, renowned for its ISO 12647 work and colour management in general, has added Printflow to its arsenal...

In a remarkable achievement, Lotsa Printing of Cairns and Port Douglas, Queensland has become the first printer globally to achieve a perfect 100% audit score for ISO 12647 colour Quality Management System, using Mellow Colour.

“We like to fly under the radar,” says Lithocraft Group Development Manager Shane O’Neill, “we focus on delivering the best possible service to our customers and as far as possible keep a low profile.”

Melbourne print powerhouse Rooster IMC has become the first B1 offset printer, in Melbourne, to achieve ISO colour certification across all of its platforms – offset, wide format and digital

Techkon of Königstein/Frankfurt, Germany, manufacturers of ultra-precision colour measurement instruments, has appointed David Crowther’s Colour Graphic Services as its dealer for Australia and New Zealand

Sydney-headquartered printer The Bright Print Group (BPG) has achieved Mellow Colour ISO 12647-2 Proficient Printer certification through Colour Graphics Services, Australian region distributor for the Mellow Colour software suite.

May’s PrintEx trade show, held in conjunction with Visual Impact, proved to be very busy for the Colour Graphic Services team. The colourful stand was where printers wanting their ‘colour health check’ charts measured headed for to see where improvements or ISO standards could be achieved.

Sydney March 10th 2015 - The Colour Doctor - David Crowther of Colour Graphic Services - is offering free detailed wide-format colour health checks at PrintEx/Visual Impact for any printer/rip/media combination.

Sydney November 19th 2014 - Sydney wide format, POS and short run packaging specialist Sol Print has boosted colour consistency, reduced wastage and achieved perfect cross-process colour matches after involving The Colour Doctor; David Crowther of Colour Graphic Services.

There are many players in the blossoming world of Photobooks but only one stands out at the very apogee of quality and recognition – Sydney’s Momento Pro. Winner of over fifty industry awards, many of them Gold, Momento’s mission is to please the most demanding customers; the professional photographers who take the images themselves.

Port Douglas, September 8th 2014 - Colour Graphic Service’s David Crowther has completed the certification process for Queensland’s Lotsa Print & Signage to become Mellow Colour ISO 12647 Proficient Printer certified. This makes Peter and Bev Martin’s Port Douglas - based business the only such ISO certified printer north of Brisbane.

Colour Graphic Service’s managing director David Crowther (“The Colour Doctor”), says that colour management issues for FMCG products are moving upstream to the Brand Managers themselves, as sourcing of packaging, advertising and POP display comes increasingly from a variety of providers and processes.

When wide format signage and display printer Abacus Print & Display of Mount Waverley, Melbourne approached David Crowther of Colour Graphic Services; it was to improve colour stability and accuracy from their stable of roll and flatbed machines.