Color-Logic to Show Latest Print Embellishment and Metallic Color Innovations at DRUPA 2024

West Chester, Ohio, USA; May 2024 -As the world eagerly anticipates the return of DRUPA after an eight-year hiatus, Color-Logic, the global leader in print embellishment and metallic color systems, is set to captivate attendees with groundbreaking advancements. Partnering with Ricoh, Color-Logic will command attention on the Ricoh Stand in Hall 8A, where the cutting-edge Color-Logic software will be demonstrated on the new Ricoh Pro 7500 Digital press with specialty inks. Since the last DRUPA, the Color-Logic Process Metallic Color System has been continuously refined to meet the evolving demands of printers, graphic designers, and brands seeking to differentiate themselves in the market while achieving predictable results, reducing waste, and reducing time to market.

Visitors to DRUPA 2024 can expect to witness significant enhancements from Color-Logic, including:

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Expanded Metallic Colors Library: Color-Logic has expanded its metallic colors library from 250 to an impressive 924 shades. With just silver toner and paper, or with white toner and a silver-based metallic stock, printers now have access to a vast array of options, including 30 new gold colors. In total, the Color-Logic system offers 50 gold and bronze metallic shades in a single pass.

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More Pattern-FX Volumes: Pattern-FX (introduced at DRUPA 2016), now boasts seven volumes, each containing 20 seamless patterns with six effects. Pattern-FX is compatible with all 924 Color-Logic metallic colors, offering designers an astounding 776,160 possible embellishments within Adobe Illustrator.

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Debut of Text-FX: Making its European debut at DRUPA 2024, Text-FX includes 20 fully editable text styles that seamlessly integrate with Pattern-FX and Color-Logic color palettes, providing designers unparalleled creative flexibility.

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FX-Viewer: Enabling designers and printers to preview Color-Logic effects before production, FX-Viewer eliminates guesswork and minimizes costly press time and material wastage by eliminating trial-and-error runs.

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S.M.A.R.T. Centre: The Color-Logic comprehensive resource hub--the S.M.A.R.T. Centre--equips printers and graphic designers with the tools and knowledge needed to seamlessly implement embellishments. From software solutions to training resources, and with marketing tools and an extensive library of tips and tricks videos, the Color-Logic S.M.A.R.T. Centre ensures a smooth transition to enhanced print embellishment. Additionally, licensed Color-Logic printers receive more than 125 press-ready marketing files encompassing more than 300 SKUs to kickstart their marketing initiatives.

"At DRUPA 2024, Color-Logic is proud to showcase our latest innovations in print embellishment and metallic color systems, empowering printers and designers to unleash their creativity and deliver exceptional results," said Mark Geeves, Director of Color-Logic Sales and Marketing. DRUPA 2024 attendees are encouraged to visit the Ricoh Stand to experience Color-Logic's revolutionary solutions firsthand."



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Color-Logic Celebrates 15 Years of Consistent, Reproducible Metallics

West Chester, Ohio, USA; March 2024 -- With the onset of 2024, its 15th year, Color-Logic--the worldwide leader in metallic color and embellishments--is now in74 countries around the globe, distributed by OEM partners and selected regional dealers. Color-Logic today is compatible with virtually every RIP or digital front end, which means that licensed printers can choose from among more than 100 digital presses and printers when expanding production to meet clients' needs. Color-Logic is compatible with every conventional printing process, including offset lithography, flexography, screen printing, and gravure, so long as the press can put silver ink and CMYK on conventional substrates, or white ink and CMYK on metallic substrates. Color-Logic is also compatible with cold foil on conventional presses and digital cold foil on digital presses.

Color-Logic offers only lifetime licenses, making Color-Logic the most affordable solution for printers who want or need to offer. print embellishments. Since Color-Logic embellishments are created at the design stage, the embellishments are limited only by the intent and creative ability of the designer. And Color-Logic provides licensed printers, graphic designers, and their brand clients not just with software, but with training, education, templates, and marketing tools that dramatically reduce design time.

Color-Logic helps create eye-catching metallic print and embellishments for labels, packaging, shrink film, direct mail, envelopes, point-of-purchase, signage, coupons, event tickets, greeting cards, portfolios, and virtually any other print product that needs to move beyond the ordinary.



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Color-Logic is Now Fully Compatible with Adobe Creative Cloud 2022

West Chester, Ohio, USA; February 2022—Color-Logic--the leader in metallic colors systems and print embellishment--has announced their entire suite of products is fully compatible with Adobe Creative Cloud 2022. Said Color-Logic Director of Sales and Marketing Mark Geeves: "At Color-Logic, we believe “All Print Starts with Design,” and ensuring that our software products are compatible with the most current version of Adobe creative tools is a must. The Color-Logic Design Suite for PhotoShop, Illustrator, and InDesign have now been released through the Color-Logic SMART Centre to our licensed printers and designers. Color-Logic Touch7 Photo products for ECG (Extended Color Gamut) inks and neon/fluorescent inks are fully compatible as well."

The Color-Logic Design Suite and the Touch7 Photo products enable both new and experienced graphic designers to add print embellishment into their files in seconds with just a few mouse clicks. See more at
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Color-Logic and Touch7 Products Now Available Through HP PrintOS Marketplace

West Chester, Ohio, USA; January 2022— Color-Logic has announced that users of HP Indigo digital presses and HP Latex printers can now purchase all Color-Logic and Touch7 products through their HP PrintOS Marketplace connections. Mark Geeves, Color-Logic Director of Sales and Marketing, said: "As an HP Partner, Color-Logic is pleased to simplify metallic printing and extended color gamut design for HP printing products. HP users unfamiliar with Color-Logic and Touch7 will find these products bring incredible time savings to metallic graphic design, the effective use of designs using new extended gamut colors, and previously complex printing tasks such as variable data metallic printing."



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Color-Logic Now Available Worldwide

West Chester, Ohio, USA; October 2021— Color-Logic, the software for metallic printing and printing on metallic substrates--is now available around the world. Color-Logic licensees in more than 70 countries offer their customers and brands quick, easy, and foolproof metallic printing. Perhaps more important, major press manufacturers now offer Color-Logic software and training as part of their equipment offerings and customer training. Manufacturers, resellers, and demonstration facilities may be found using a worldwide map on the Color-Logic website at www.color-logic.com/resellers/. Licensed Color-Logic printers may be found at www.color-logic.com/findaprinter/.

Mark Geeves, Color-Logic Director of Sales and Marketing, discussing the increasing ubiquity of metallic printing in packaging and labels, said: "The popularity of Color-Logic software is evident not just from the number of Color-Logic licensees, but the number and diversity of printer manufacturers incorporating Color-Logic in their sales presentations. Printers never cease to be amazed at the speed at which specialty files such as white ink masks can be prepared using Color-Logic software.

Richard Ainge. Color-Logic CTO, commented further: "In addition to metallic printing software, Color-Logic offers Touch7--a specialty software suite enabling designers and printers to take full advantage of extended gamut products such as those produces using the neon and fluorescent inks available on the latest digital presses. Our mission with both of these software suites is to streamline the design or prepress process while ensuring printers receive reliable, reproducible files they can use with confidence."

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Color-Logic Adds 30 New Metallic Gold Colors

West Chester, Ohio, USA; June 2021— Color-Logic—the leader in metallic color communication and print embellishments—has more than doubled the number of metallic gold colors available to Color-Logic licensees. The 30 new metallic gold colors, together with the 25 gold colors previously included with the Color-Logic System, enable licensed Color-Logic printers to provide their clients with 55 unique metallic gold colors by utilizing only one metallic silver ink, toner, or substrate. The 30 new metallic gold colors bring the total number of Color-Logic metallic colors to 280. No longer is it necessary to stock gold inks or substrates, or to match golds using trial and error.

Discussing the issues facing printers using silver or gold in their digital presses (or considering one of the new digital presses offering a fifth-color station for metallic inks or toners) Color-Logic Director of Sales and Marketing Mark Geeves commented: “Manufacturers of digital presses are beginning to offer silver and gold inks and toners to complement traditional CMYK inks and toners. But without Color-Logic, digital printers are limited to a single gold color, while Color-Logic licensees can offer their customers 55 different gold options. And these golds can not only be used as spot colors in designs, but in the many embellishment options offered by Color-Logic as well. Digital press owners using the Color-Logic System no longer need to waste precious production time swapping out silver ink or toner to run gold."

Regarding the importance of the announcement to printers using cut sheet metallic substrate in digital presses, or rolls of metallic substrate in wide format printers, Geeves said: "Color-Logic automatically produces the white ink masks required for printing on metallic substrates. The availability of 55 predictable and reproducible metallic gold colors significantly reduces file preparation time and eliminates frustrating and repetitive on-press color matching.”

Color-Logic licensees may produce their own swatch books, using their substrates, press standards, inks, and coatings. The print embellishments offered by licensed Color-Logic printers enable internal or external graphic designers to dazzle clients with metallic colors. The dramatization and personalization options available with the Color-Logic System provide the most economical and most easily implemented embellishments available to printers.


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New Color-Logic Website Feature Compares Printed Designs With and Without Metallic Embellishments

West Chester, Ohio, USA; May 2021— A new section of the Color-Logic website uses several images and applications to illustrate the results of printing both with and without Color-Logic metallic embellishments. The feature--at https://www.color-logic.com/beforeandafter--shows how an image changes when Color-Logic metallic embellishments are added. These effects may be attained using virtually any popular printing process.

Discussing the new feature, Mark Geeves, Color-Logic Director of Sales and Marketing, said: "The sample files demonstrate the value of print embellishments created with just one additional color on press. On conventional substrate, Color-Logic works with silver ink or toner and CMYK inks or toners. On metallic substrate, the Color-Logic process requires white ink or toner and CMYK inks or toners. The best way to visualize how Color-Logic affects design is to see the metallic image alongside its CMYK equivalent."



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New Color-Logic Release Supports Adobe Creative Cloud 2021

West Chester, Ohio, USA; March 2021— The latest Color-Logic metallic software is fully compatible with Adobe Creative Cloud 2021. Discussing the update, Richard Ainge, Color-Logic CTO and cofounder, said: "Color-Logic continues to maintain compatibility with the latest Adobe creative software. At Color-Logic, we believe that All Print Starts with Design, and we keep up with the most current versions of the popular design software used around the world. With Color-Logic and Adobe Creative Cloud 2021, licensed Color-Logic designers everywhere can add metallic embellishments into their print files. Color-Logic provides licensed printers and graphic designers with access to the latest software updates through the Color-Logic SMART Centre."

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Color-Logic Expands Online Training Program

West Chester, Ohio, USA; April 2020— or seven years, Color-Logic has provided licensed Color-Logic printers around the world with web-based training, suitable for their captive designers, external designers, agencies, and brands. Color-Logic developed these training programs for two primary reasons: Time, because print personnel are often too busy during the day to learn new techniques, and thus need an effective means of learning at their own pace, and Location, because with licensed printers in more than 60 countries, the designer could well be in a different city or country, enabling licensed Color-Logic printers to expand markets in any direction.

A unique aspect of the Color-Logic system is that it enables print embellishment at the design stage, since the Adobe Design Suite is consistent in every language, on both Windows and Macintosh platforms. While it remains unclear how design will evolve beyond the COVID-19 outbreak, online training and web based training will remain, which is why Color-Logic has expanding online resources for licensed printers and their captive and external designers. Color-Logic has added Master Class Tutorials for Adobe PhotoShop, Illustrator, and InDesign to provide extensive instruction about how to add embellishments into artwork and make it truly stand out from the competition.

In addition, Color-Logic offers a wide variety of videos for anyone to review, including a recorded live webinar of the entire Color-Logic system. To learn more about the Color-Logic system, log on to www.color-logic.com/support,


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Color-Logic Announces Amnesty for Licensed Printer SMART Program

West Chester, Ohio, USA; April 2020— The Color-Logic SMART (Software, Marketing, And Related Training) program provides licensed Color-Logic printers with software updates and technical support, ensuring they have the most current Color-Logic software for Adobe, on the most current platforms from Windows and Macintosh. In addition, the Color-Logic SMART program provides 100 press-ready metallic marketing files for use in go-to-market campaigns by our licensed printers. Any printer whose renewal came due since February has been informed their enrollment fees will be pushed out until August 2020.

Discussing the program, Color-Logic Sales and Marketing Director Mark Geeves said: "While Color-Logic, like all vendors, needs to maintain cash flow, we felt Color-Logic licensees should be using their cash at this time to pay staff. We greatly appreciate those licensees that have paid despite the amnesty. When the crisis is behind us, print embellishment will be more important than ever, and the tools and images in the SMART program will enable printers to be competitive very quickly."


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Printing United 2019

West Chester, Ohio, USA; October 2019—At Printing United 2019 in Dallas, Texas, October 23-25, Color-Logic will demonstrate its Process Metallic Color System. In booth 10564, Color-Logic will show samples printed using digital, offset, inkjet, flexography, gravure, and screen.

Licensed Color-Logic printers offer brands a competitive edge to help them stand out and get to market faster. Color-Logic is compatible with any printing device using silver ink or toner and CMYK on conventional substrate, or any printing device using white ink or toner with CMYK on reflective substrate. Licensed Color-Logic printers offer their services in 55 countries, and Color-Logic is supported by every major manufacturer of both conventional and digital printing devices that offer silver ink or toner, or white ink or toner.

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Color-Logic Celebrates Ten Years of Making Metallics Manageable

West Chester, Ohio, USA; June 2019—In early 2009, into the teeth of the most severe recession ever suffered by the printing industry, Color-Logic introduced its Process Metallic Color System--the only graphic design software package that simplifies and standardizes metallic print production, creating foil printing using white ink/toner or silver ink/toner. Since that 2009 introduction, the Color-Logic system has remained affordable and easy for both conventional and digital printers to implement. A key Color-Logic feature links printers with graphic designers and brand managers, making them partners in the successful execution of metallic designs.

Color-Logic was developed by Chief Technology Officer Richard Ainge and Director of Sales and Marketing Mark Geeves, both of whom remain active in the company. Today Color-Logic is supported by virtually every digital printing press manufacturer offering white ink/toner or silver ink/toner. Color-Logic has consistently worked with press, substrate, and coating technology partners around the world and has evolved with process and equipment technologies.

After ten years, Color-Logic has installations in more than 50 countries, and in the past three years some 90 percent of Color-Logic sales have occurred outside the United States. In 2019, sales to printers with digital presses are expected for the first time to exceed those to conventional printers. Labels and packaging are particularly strong markets and consistently demonstrate a speedy return on investment in Color-Logic. For printers using any process, Color-Logic offers educational videos and easy-to-follow training that enable designers to quickly understand the technology and use it to produce metallic files that are consistently reproducible without seemingly endless trial-and-error.
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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