Touch7 and swissQprint Demonstrate Expanded Color Gamuts at Printing United Expo

West Chester, Ohio, USA; October 2023 -- Color-Logic, the exclusive worldwide distributor of Touch7, is pleased to announce that the new Touch7 Neon Color System will be on display on the swissQprint stand, booth C2447, at Printing United Expo in Atlanta, October 18-20. Touch7 provides hundreds of neon and pastel colors for each of the swissQprint neon yellow and pink inks, thereby enabling swissQprint owners to produce colors heretofore unavailable to graphic designers and their printers. Employing Touch7 technology enables swissQprint users to produce more than a thousand unique neon and pastel colors for use on signage, packaging, point-of-purchase, and prototype printing. The 2023 Printing United Expo will mark the first public showing of the Touch7 technology on a wide format printer. swissQprint neon and pastel swatch books will the produced live at the show.

The Touch7 Neon Color System enables swissQprint users to produce their own swatch books on their own printers, taking into account the paper, inks, printer setup, and coatings used. Unlike other systems--which require graphic designers and their printers to use trial and error to match neon colors--the Touch7 Neon Color System enables graphic designers to effectively and predictably use the expanded color gamut of the swissQprint neon inks, using automated color palettes for Adobe Creative Cloud and prepress-based image separation plugins for Adobe Photoshop.


Video Link: https://youtu.be/M92dw-YHbiE?si=AkV65iJhm_ndGsLg

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Touch7 Neon Color Guides Used to Digitally Print 2021 Fedrigoni 365 Calendar Vector Art

West Chester, Ohio, USA; March 2021— Each year, Italian paper manufacturer Fedrigoni produces a 365-page calendar showcasing the work of UK designers on Fedrigoni papers. The 2021 calendar--a collaboration of Fedrigoni, London agency TM Media, and Ricoh--drew on the talents of nearly 1000 UK designers. To fully demonstrate the variability of digital printing, no two of the 4000 calendars produced are alike. To also demonstrate the capability of the Ricoh press on which the calendars were printed, each 2021 calendar page uses a fifth color. Because the Ricoh press features neon yellow and neon pink inks, TM Media used Touch7 Neon color guides to create individual page files and to specify how each was to be printed. Discussing the process, Color-Logic CTO Richard Ainge, who developed the Touch7 process, commented: "One of the first steps in design is choosing what colors to use. When Fedrigoni elected to use the Ricoh digital press with neon pink and neon yellow, they learned about the Touch7 Neon system. The Touch7 color guides used for the project were printed under license by Ricoh Europe, and demonstrated to Fedrigoni and TM Media the more than 1500 colors they could possibly use. The Touch7 Neon system not only enabled the production of colors the world had never seen before, but created blends of those neon colors in seconds."

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New Touch7 Neon Color Guides Simplify Use of Neon Inks in Digital Printers

West Chester, Ohio, USA; March 2021— New Touch7 Neon Color Guides are now available that simplify use by graphic designers of the neon and fluorescent inks being offered by various print engine manufacturers. Until now, graphic designers preparing files for use with the new neon inks have been confined to commercially available guides that were produced using offset lithography. When designers attempt to use these analog color guides in digital print, however, the resulting print is often disappointing. This means lengthy trial-and-error procedures when attempting to design for the latest digital print engines. Because inks vary among print engine manufacturers, theTouch7 Color Guides are produced and sold only by the printer manufacturers, for use only with their machines. Discussing the new Touch7 Neon Color Guides, Richard Ainge, developer of the Touch7 process, said: "Touch7 Neon Color Guides are printed by Color-Logic partners that manufacture digital print engines, and thus reflect exactly what can be expected when using the substrate on which the guide was printed. Graphic designers will be amazed at the time savings and predictability of their work when using the Touch7 software to prepare files for print. Their print customers will be equally amazed at the astounding color enhancements possible. The first Touch7 Neon Color Guides available are for pink and yellow neon and fluorescent colors on their digital presses. Touch7 provides print engine manufacturers with 760 colors for each neon color, in addition to the standard CMYK ink sets available. Touch7 Neon Color Guides help printers demonstrate and communicate to graphic designers the extended gamut of colors as well as the delicate pastels possible on digital presses, without the difficulty of trying to match colors seen in an offset-produced guide."

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New Touch7 Photo ECG Tool from Color-Logic

West Chester, Ohio, USA; October 2019—In booth 10564 at Printing United in Dallas, October 23-25, Color-Logic will introduce Touch7 Photo ECG, an Extended Color Gamut (ECG) tool that dramatically simplifies the use of Extended Color Gamut in the latest wide-format and digital presses.

Extended Color Gamut (ECG) inks are rapidly gaining popularity in the large format and packaging worlds, particularly when specifying corporate identity or spot colors beyond the CMYK color gamut. When brands want images to stand out, they use this extended gamut capability in images. Doing so requires someone to make a manual mask for each of the ECG inks being used.

Until now, achieving the desired intent of Extended Color Gamut required a skilled prepress operator or graphic designer to use trial and error. Adding ECG ink sets into images requires creating a separate mask for each ECG ink being used. Touch7 Photo ECG is a new Photoshop plugin that enables the designer or prepress operator to add one, two, or three ECG separations into an image in only a few seconds. Touch7 Photo ECG eliminates the need to create manual masks, thus any designer using Photoshop CC can do this kind of work.

In addition, Touch7 Photo ECG does not require ICC profiles to create the ECG separations, enabling designers to create, at the design stage, five-, six-, or seven-color separations and then send the file to prepress for production, where ICC color management is used to map the image to the ink set of the printer or press.

Designers unable to visit the Color-Logic booth at Printing United can install and test Touch7 Photo ECG for themselves by downloading the tool at www.touch7.co.

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Color-Logic and HP Indigo Shine at PRINT 18 in Chicago

West Chester, OH; September 2018

~ HP Indigo Offerings Make Impressive use of Color-Logic Effects ~

West Chester, Ohio, USA; September 2018--HP Indigo and Color-Logic will join forces at PRINT 18 in Chicago to demonstrate how HP Indigo white ink, expanded color gamut inks, and fluorescent inks let graphic designers offer brands and product managers an unlimited array of special decorative effects and colors. Discussing the collaboration, Color-Logic Director of Sales and Marketing Mark Geeves said: "The latest HP Indigo product enhancements-to be shown at PRINT 18 in Chicago-enable graphic designers using the Color-Logic Process Metallic System to differentiate their products in all forms of print media."

Richard Ainge-Color-Logic Chief Technology Officer and the developer of Touch7-commenting on the PRINT 18 offerings, said: "Time-to-market is critical today and embellishments require longer at the design and concept stage than ever before. At Color-Logic, we have worked with HP Indigo DFE developers to ensure that Color-Logic files are processed precisely and as intended by the graphic designer. Designers utilizing the Color-Logic and Touch7 systems at our licensed printers can choose metallic colors from a swatch book and rest assured the press will produce their files exactly. Our design tools for Adobe CC and CS enable designers to create dramatic decorative effects in just seconds, while eliminating the guesswork and trial-and-error typical of metallic file preparation."

Color-Logic will exhibit in booth 4133. HP Indigo will exhibit in booth 2411. Amazing Color-Logic and Touch7 samples will be available in both booths.

Color-Logic
develops color communication systems and software tool sets for a variety of special effect printing applications. Color-Logic provides brand owners, product managers, corporations, and their advertising agencies the ability to differentiate themselves and their clients with a simple print production process that yields dramatic results. Color-Logic decorative effects utilize the existing workflows of printers and designers, yielding dynamic results without the use of special equipment. Color-Logic supports the value of print and works with designers and printers to enhance their printed media. For more information, call +1-513-258-0047.


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Touch7 adds Soft-Proofing for Accurately Viewing Extended Color Gamut, Targeting Digital Print

Leeds, England; November 2016Touch7, an Extended Colour Gamut system distributed by Color-Logic Inc, has announced that they will now offer Soft-Proofing™ capability to their clients. Discussing the Soft-Proofing product, Touch7’s Founder/CTO, Richard Ainge commented: “Touch7 takes just one mouse click inside of PhotoShop to produce up to a 7 color separation of an image. However, PhotoShop does not provide an accurate color representation of any separation with more than CMYK or RGB images. We are not a colour management company so we partnered with RemoteDirector to provide us with an OEM version of their technology.”   Mark Geeves, Director of Sales and Marketing for Touch7 commented: “We have targeted the digital press and printer markets with our Touch7 Soft-Proofing solution since people forget these presses are really production machines and there is a real need not to use them as proofing devices until the design is ready. If printers take 6 minutes of production time to produce 10 proofs a day then you have 1 hour of production time wasted. Touch7 creates an extended color gamut separation in seconds, which saves hours of manual masking and now with our Soft-Proofing solution, digital presses and printers are more productive as well.”
  Touch7™ is powered by Khaos Technology™, a developer of Adobe plug-ins and software tools for the printing industry.   For more information, visit www.touch7.co or call +1-513-258-0047.  



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Founders of Color-Logic now developing design tools for extended color gamut printing

West Chester, Ohio, USA; April 2016—Touch7 Photo is a new product for extended color gamut printing, that has nothing to do with metallics, but everything to do with color – Let us explain what Touch7 Photo is and what it provides to you and your clients.

Extended Colour Gamut Printing
The developments by ink companies, print engines, RIP manufacturers and ICC profiling tools has been extensive over the past years, however, no one has really focused on the necessity for providing creative tools for designers, so that they can utilize these developments and reduce their cycle time to production. Touch7 was developed as an intuitive system that would help brands utilize ECG printing at a fraction of the time and cost associated with doing manual processing, and without the necessity to send your files through a dedicated colour separation system, therefore opening up ECG printing to even the smallest print shop. The true power of Touch7 lies in it’s automated ECG colour palettes and plug-ins for Adobe CC, ensuring that designers can create artworks in an extended colour gamut, without ever having to leave the familiar creative environment.

Touch7 Photo is a Photoshop plug-in that uses proprietary separation technology to automatically extract out ECG colors from your images, and all at the touch of a button!

KEY BENEFITS

Automatic ECG separation – Extract out only ECG gamut areas from an image.

No more masking – Unless you want to! Skin tones and colors that are easily achievable out of CMYK, are not effected by ECG inks.

Save hours on image processing times compared to a manual masking with simple "One Click" buttons, convert your photographic images in seconds.

Excellent ROI – The time saving on image masking alone, will pay for itself within a few images!


INTRODUCTORY PRICING: $650 per seat
Touch7 is licensed on an annual subscription basis. Single Seat Installs.

Try before you buy!
Downloaded the Touch7 Photo Plug-in from www.touch7.co/demo, to begin your FREE 7 day trial. You will also have access to several files that have already been processed with and without Touch7 Photo, for a quick evaluation of what you could be doing off your press or printer.

We would also like to point out that we have seen excellent results off many of the digital presses and printers that only have CMYK inks or toners – Creating extended color gamut images, but printed using only CMYK! To find out more, visit www.touch7.co/workflow

For more information, visit www.color-logic.com or call +1-513-258-0047.



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