Western USA
Experts Listing

  Bay Digital

Lee Nelson
Lee Nelson has been providing technical support to the Printing, Graphic Arts, and Photographic industries since 1975, specializing in the integration, instruction and support of color managed workflows from creation to print for top agencies, pre-media, retail, and print providers. He offers expert installation of inkjet proofing systems including press fingerprinting and G7 certification. Bay Digital is the premier technical support organization in the West for networking, servers, archiving, pre-press hardware and workflows, as well as Web-to-Print. Representing Xinet, Dalim, Press-sense, OrderSense, Raid Inc, Apple, CGS, GMG, Xrite and more.

  Color Correct Solutions.

Cory Cook
Robert Seckendorf
Color Correct Solutions integrates color accuracy to any printing system in any workflow. The results Color Correct Solutions provides are highly desired by Printing, Publishing, PrePress, Design, Packaging, Marketing and Advertising organizations. Color Correct Solutions now offers G7 Expertise and can help you achieve G7 Masters qualification.
Listed 11/06
A Color Management Group Member

  EFI/ Vutek

Lilia Morales-Hill, Ink application Development Specialist, provides integration of the ink with the superwide digital inkjet printers to achieve high image quality and color. Lilia as been involved in the printing industry for more 15 years. Hands on experience on Prepress digital workflow for Flexo, Rotogravure and Offset. Joined HighWater Designs as field engineer and latter, Customer Support Manager; promoting colour management software, related equipment and colour consultancy. EFI™ is the world leader in digital imaging and print management solutions for the commercial printing and enterprise markets. EFI’s portfolio of integrated solutions span Production Printing, Graphic Arts Solutions, Web to Print, Print Management Information System (Print Management) and Corporate products. EFI’s VUTEk® reliable superwide digital inkjet printers have a reputation for speed, high productivity and exceptional color quality and print on a variety of substrates. Its extensive line of high-quality inks are known for purity consistency and durability. VUTEk's UV Curable Inks provide the highest quality of color on a variety of flexible and rigid media substrates.

  Fujifilm Graphic Solutions

Matt Condon and the Fujifilm Team
Fujifilm Graphic Solutions is the nation’s largest distributor of equipment, consumables and technical services for the graphic communications industry. Representing hundreds of suppliers at branch locations across the country, Enovation employs nearly 1,000 people. Enovation has created a team of experts, poised to answer questions, offer advice and help navigate customers through the ever-changing graphic arts industry. We not only help customers make sense of new technologies and developments, but we also work with them to develop the capabilities they need to operate efficiently and stay ahead of the competition.  Whether it’s information on an emerging technology or reliable delivery of supplies, customers know they can “Get It From the Experts” at Fujifilm.

  Gans Ink & Supply

Keith Duchene
Gans Ink & Supply is a full-service ink manufacturer with 11 locations nationwide. Not only does Gans Ink & Supply produce some of the finest ISO 2846-1 compliant process inks available, we are committed to assisting printers in plugging our inks into a comprehensively color-managed workflow based on the proven GRACoL G7 method.
Listed 02/06

  Glen Andrews 

Glen Andrews
Glenn Andrews is Color Analyst for Schawk, Inc in Los Angeles, the world’s largest brand imaging solutions provider. He has implemented fully color-managed workflows adhering to the G7 appearance model across the entire production chain from softproofing through grand format inkets and conventional and UV offset presses to 77". He has participated in a range of test projects involving G7 methodology including FM screening, "Extreme" GCR, Expanded Gamut (7Color) printing, simulated backlit softproofing and more. Glen can be reached at 818 263-7789.
Listed 02/06

  Grip Digital 

Greg Imhoff, Grip Digital offers hands-on personal instructional to implement G7 live on press or in the proofing environment by precisely by matching color to GRACoL 7 specifications. To simplify specifically for press operators we also have a patent applied for solution we will share. Training is regarded as positive and interactive, customized at each client be it packaging, newspaper, or commercial print solutions as needed, into one. Centrally located in Chicago with global contacts and relationships in industry leading manufacturers and OEMs of color, Grip Digital allows you to have and understand best in class solutions applied with GRIPdigital, inc.

 Kodak Graphic Communications

Jim Wilde, G7 Services Manager 
Kodak Graphic Communications provides G7 certified experts and widest choice of G7 services in the industry. The following is a list of Kodak G7 Certified Experts in the United States and Canada: Dick Presley, Terry Dwyer, John Maurer, Joe Ambro; Troy Anderson; Eileen Henry, David Home, Arjen Van Der Meulen; Pete Weishaar; Frank Burkiewicz; Rich Theis; Thomas Lester, Shaundra Toy, Patrick Chan, Gary Fye, Mohey Soliman, Randy Tartol, Jim Wilde.   For more information on how Kodak can help you with G7 services contact Jim Wilde.
Listed 04/06

 Left Dakota

Eric Magnusson
Left Dakota was founded in 1992 and focuses exclusively upon of Color Management, and is now a leading provider of product sales, training, and ongoing service to customers implementing ICC-based color management workflows.  Left Dakota provides G7 Expertise and can assist you in acquiring G7 Master status.
Listed 11/06
A Color Management Group Member

 Navigator Cross-Media 

Peter Shamray, Navigator Cross-media, a color manager who actually owned a printing company before selling it in 2004. Peter has a Master of Science in Operations Research from UC Berkeley. Navigator Cross-media consults on turning printing into a streamlined, smooth manufacturing process: define your objective, adjust your parameters, and control your process. As a certified G7 expert NCM can bring your printing operation up to G7 and current international standards to help get larger jobs, jobs where color match is crucial and to provide your clients with quality results every time.

 Piccus 4 Color

David Piccus
Piccus 4 Color is a color consulting firm, concerned with implementing color management solutions, installing and maintaining color systems, printers, presses and RIPs, and training people in color management, calibration and profile generation. Clients encompass the film, photo, printing, packaging, newspaper and digital reproduction industries.  Piccus 4 Color  helps clients maintain color management control on many proofers and presses, utilizing ICC profiles and calibrations to create accurate characterizations of those devices. Piccus 4 Color has also installed and maintained many remote proofing systems placed at client's sites. These proofers are accurately predicting the color of the printing standards they have been tasked to emulate. Piccus 4 Color has significantly reduced their prepress costs by maintaining these contract proofers and presses in proper color balance. Piccus 4 Color consults and trains ICC color management software and workflows and the GRACoL 7 method.
Listed 02/06
A Color Management Group Member
Located in Utah

 Pitman Company

Dwight Collier
With more than a century of service as the leading provider of imaging solutions from design to print, the Pitman Company provides the full spectrum of product and system solutions, service and support for both digital and traditional prepress and pressroom operations. Pitman also offers tailored product solutions for the specific requirements of printing market segments such as commercial printing, packaging production, newspaper publishing, wide/grand format graphics printing, and CAD technical design. Pitman is a one-source solution to the challenge of optimizing your processes, performance and profit margins. We integrate a state-of-the-art product portfolio from the industry’s leading manufacturers with outstanding technical support, process-improvement services and educational programs aimed at reducing our customer’s manufacturing costs. Our color management approach examines the entire manufacturing workflow, analysis viable options and offers tangible solutions for process profiling and calibration. Pitman G7  Experts across the country can assist you with G7 qualification.

 Prestia Color Consulting

Lou Presia
Prestia Color Consulting(www.prestia.com) and its founder, Lou Prestia, have provided training and integration services to graphic arts professionals for over fifteen years. Prestia started his own consulting service in 2001, after serving as workflow architect for Nimblefish Technologies. Prior to this Lou worked at Adobe Systems, where his roles included technical marketing manager, manager of Adobe’s prepress graphics lab, and color technology evangelist. In this latter role he developed color technology training programs for Adobe personnel and customers that included topics on ICC and PostScript color management. Prestia has trained hundreds of production, engineering, marketing, and sales personnel throughout the world and has developed extensive curricula on a variety of graphic arts topics. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Printing Management and Science from Rochester Institute of Technology. In addition to press calibration and fingerprinting, the firm also specializes in inkjet proofing systems and PDF workflow development and training. As a GRACoL Certified Expert and Certification Agent, Prestia Color Consulting can help your firm achieve GRACoL Master Printer or Master Proofer certification through on-site implementation of and training on the GRACoL 7 methodology. For more information please contact info@prestia.com
Listed 03/06
A Pilot Marking Group Member
Located in California

 Rods and Cones, Inc.

Son Do, David Troutt, Anne Taylor
Since 1996, Rods and Cones has provided top-quality, workflow systems and technical services for advertising and graphic agencies, photo studios, prepress services agencies, print providers, and in-house creative groups. We evaluate a site, understand the problems and the goals, and develop a workflow that produces accurate colors from input to final proof. Our technicians are G7 certified and trained to install and customize most RIPs including EFI XF, Absolute Proof, ColorBurst, PerfectProof, Onyx and ORIS. Their level of expertise is unparalleled and their work always customized and creative. Visit http://www.rodsandcones.com/about/team.html to meet the team.
Listed 03/06
A Color Management Group Member
Located in California

 RPimaging

Dan Reid
RPimaging offers hands-on engaging training in pressroom process control methods using the GRACoL 7 method, press fingerprinting, and press ICC color profiling nationally. In our pre-visit audit we identify any deficiencies that could hinder GRACoL 7 method implementation and offer suggestions that might improve press efficiencies. These suggestions might include automated scanning densitometers, spectrodensitometers, light booths, or other supplemental items that improve pressroom efficiency. We don’t stop there, and use the pressroom data upstream in prepress to calibrate your proofing systems. RPimaging is a certified training and integration partner with virtually every commercial proofing RIP including EFI ColorProof XF (BestColor), ColorBurst,, Onyx Postershop, and CGS ORIS ColorTuner. Our recommendations will meet your needs and address your concerns. Our clients include commercial, web, screen, packaging, newspaper, and reprographic markets. Contact us to learn how we can maximize your productivity while qualifying you for the GRACoL 7 Master Printer program. Call us toll free at (866) RGB-CMYK to discuss your goals or visit our web site www.RPimaging.com. 
Listed 03/06
A Color Management Group Member
Located in Arizona; Works in the West

  Spectraflow

Matt Mikkelsen-Pope
Spectraflow specializes in providing complete color workflow solutions for the graphic arts industry. This includes the necessary products and consulting required to successfully complete a project and the training and support to ensure its ongoing success. Clients include photographers, agencies, corporate marketing departments, prepress providers, and printers. For printers, we offer press fingerprinting, process control, and implementation of the GRACoL 7 methodology. We can also "tie it all together" by implementing an inkjet proofing system that matches your press. Spectraflow is a certified Epson ProFocus and HP VIP reseller. We are also certified on and experienced with a wide variety of inkjet RIPs and color and color management instrumentation and software (EFI Colorproof XF, Onyx, Colorburst, X-Rite/Monaco, GretagMacbeth, etc.) Spectraflow can help improve the quality of your printing while reducing costs with a IDEAlliance Master Printer on-site verification. For more information please go to www.spectraflow.com or call 415-472-0130
Listed 03/06
A Color Management Group Member

  Superior Printing Ink Company

 Robert Peterson, Matt Kulengosky & Nick Casalla,
Superior Printing Ink Co., Inc., founded in 1918, is a privately owned American ink company. Our unique ability to understand the printer’s needs, and then factor this understanding into product development has earned us a major share of the U.S. commercial printing ink market. Superior’s continuing growth now extends to twenty-five manufacturing branches, two wholly owned subsidiaries (Gotham Ink Corp. and Spinks Inks), and well over two-dozen in-plant customer service locations. Our motto, 'Modern Technology / Old Fashioned Service' truly describes our company and products. Superior plays an active role in your color management effort by first supplying you with our ISO 2846-1 compliant inks and then working in collaboration with your pre-press and pressroom operations to help establish and maintain a repeatable color management process in your company.