Choosing spot colour libraries

After Eddy Hagen pointed out in this posts, that there were some major colour deviations between the brand new PANTONE Solid Coated Guide 2023 and the previous version especially for  … read more

Several errors have crept into the new PANTONE 2023 fan decks. In both the PANTONE Solid Coated and the Solid Uncoated color fans, there are colours for which the new  … read more

Over the last few months, we at Proof.de have been thinking about further improving our already very good colour measurement technology in terms of speed and measurement precision. Relatively quickly it  … read more

In the current issue of Fogra News “Fogra Aktuell” Proof GmbH is involved in two places. Firstly, a summary of the Fogra report on our first FOGRA55 certification for seven-colour  … read more

Whether it’s a large global corporation or a small company, the following often applies to designs or redesigns today: we develop everything for digital first.

A few days ago Proof GmbH was the first company to be certified for proofing for the new 7C exchange colour space FOGRA55. Fogra has developed characterisation data for extended  … read more

From now on you can order proofs for metal decor printing on white sheet metal at proof.de: The ICC profile for Fogra60 is Metal-Printing_MPC1_FOGRA60.icc

Peter Jäger is an expert in colour management that reliably works across the boundaries of printers and monitors, web and print – essentially: cross-media.

In this short image video we – the Proof GmbH – introduce us and our work. Find out who we are and what drives us. What do you think of our short film?

Offset and Newsprint ISO Coated v2 (ECI) / ISO Coated v2 300% (ECI) Profile: ISOcoated_v2_eci.icc Standard for glossy and matte coated paper Paper: Types 1 and 2, gloss and matte  … read more

In 2021 proof.de was again Fogra certified including Fogra “Spot cert” certification, i.e. for the display of spot colours such as PANTONE C and U.

Shortly after Adobe’s announcement to remove PANTONE colours from their products, PANTONE removed the popular PANTONE Find a Color from their website

The announcement was hot: As of March 2022, Adobe software products will no longer contain PANTONE colour libraries. What follows now? Who loses, who wins?

The future speaks PDF 2.0: Only recently the ISO published a new revision of PDF 2.0, with which the new printing standard PDF/X-6 also takes shape.

The sphere head technology and the differences between SCI / SPIN or SCE / SPEX are explained using the measurement of glossy and diffuse objects.

We now have more environmentally friendly parcel labels for our shipping sleeves: Instead of PVC, we use offset-printed paper labels.

  Proof GmbH is a member of Fogra – Forschungsinstitut für Medientechnologien e.V.. Why? In recent years, we have been able to draw on the support of Fogra with numerous  … read more

Proof printer of the latest generation – now available at Proof.de: The new EPSON SureColor P9500 Spectroproofer. More speed for large proof jobs.

Once again we passed the Fogra certifications and were even the first company to be certified with the Fogra “Spot cert” for Fogra59 eciCMYK-V2.

A few days ago Fogra published the characterisation data for the new printing standards Fogra56 and Fogra57 while ECI provided the respective ICC profiles for download on the eci.org website.  … read more