Color Management

Within Portland Color, we use a color managed workflow. Our certification as a G7® Master Print facility means we are able to deliver consistent, accurate color on all of our printers and media for your projects. This also means that your files will print consistently across multiple vendors who are also G7® Master printers. Logos and images printed by your G7® certified offset, flexo and web printer will match the color we print on our latex, dyesub, and UV curable large format devices.

We create our own profiles for our devices, and build these profiles using sophisticated measuring tools, and then refine them with our trained eye. We feel that the craft component of color management is highly significant – our ability to know a ‘good print’ developed in our fine-art photo days – and it makes our color profiles just a bit better. Our transitions are smoother, our grays are cleaner, and shadow detail doesn’t block up or posterize.

While color management is a useful tool, it is only the beginning point of our proofing process. We expect that color management will put us in the ballpark, but not at our goal. Our printers use their trained eyes to assess and correct each job so that the Pantone colors match as closely as possible, not just where color management places them, and that photographs have the depth and immediacy that the photographer intended.

We are not just a printing plant; we produce quality work for discerning clients. Whether it is a lifestyle graphic for an L.L. Bean store or work for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, we make sure that the color is as perfect as possible.