Colour management: it’s harder (and easier) than you think

by Toby Saalfeld, U.S. Director of Colour Management & Jonathan Vena, Colour Management Consultant

For more than a decade, Ricoh’s colour management experts have been dedicated to helping our customers achieve consistent and accurate colour every time they print and wherever their brand shows up.

Colour management is a complex business — and it’s not just about ink on paper. Our clients understand the value of strategic brand management, and when it comes to colour, their expectations run high for accuracy, consistency and quality from print output to monitor displays, scanners, cameras and everything in between.

Pinnacle Award Winner The RICOH Auto Colour Adjuster is a 2023 Pinnacle Award recipient in the Non-Output category. The panel of judges lauded the device’s innovative technology for featuring the fastest spectrophotometer in the printing industry.

A consultative approach

At Ricoh, we provide consulting services and step-by-step training to empower newbies with the skills needed to manage colour all on their own. We make colour management as easy as possible without sacrificing the quality our client’s customers expect. No unnecessary, confusing jargon. Just better colour!

Over the years, we’ve learned that every one of our customers prioritizes consistency from print run to print run. Accuracy is top of mind too, but in a high production environment, it often takes second place to that consistent brand output. Ricoh helps our customers ensure both consistency and accuracy through our deep knowledge of industry standards and years of expertise getting colour right.

Through close collaboration and consultation with our clients, we learn what is most important to them and their customers and then recommend solutions across different platforms that will deliver against their goals. From there, we stick around and work closely with our clients to ensure the solutions are working and also tackle any emerging colour management needs head on. Throughout the journey with each of our clients, we focus on the things that are most relevant and valuable to them — so that they can achieve the results they want.

Get a professional colour management assessment

Get a professional colour management assessment with the experts at Ricoh. We can demonstrate the magic of the RICOH Auto Colour Adjuster in action for your business and show you just how easy colour management can and “should” be.

About the Author

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Toby Saalfeld

U.S. Director of Colour Management, Ricoh USA

Toby has been in the production print industry for two decades, expanding his knowledge and skill set in all areas of print — technical services, sales, marketing, and engineering — to design innovative solutions for businesses to thrive independently. Jonathan Vena, Colour Management Consultant, advises businesses on the best and easiest way to achieve the colour they want. Ricoh’s resident colour expert on calibration and 5th colour station, Jon helps customers like the Philadelphia Eagles keep their colour as bright as their business.

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