Athena Graphics is a Belgian flexo pre-press provider
Athena Graphics has used GMG’s ColorPlugin to cut approval times in half and make significant gains in reliability and control to the image editing process.
The software offers a powerful solution to optimise print data in Adobe Photoshop. As beta tester, Athena Graphics quickly noticed how the colour-accurate softproofing especially of spot colours brought improvements in production.
As well as softproofing, ColorPlugin allows colour edits on entire layouts, single layers down to selected areas. Athena Graphics’ proof manager Johan Heyrick is happy to save time while improving the quality. He said, ‘Both time and the number of approval cycles has been significantly reduced. The investment has paid off in a very short time.’
In addition to colour-accurate softproofing, the software provides conversions between colour spaces via GMG OpenColor and the possibility to remove individual colour channels or to exchange them with others. It’s also possible to adapt the first printing dot – an automatic preview visually highlights critical areas.
