Absolute Proof News 2008

Christchurch, New Zealand, August 7, 2008: Gimlé, developers of AbsoluteProof® digital inkjet proofing software, today announce the launch of AbsoluteProof Live, the world's first subscription proofing system.

A special thank you goes to Mike Lambert at Heidelberg for help with the reference printing, Peter Constable at Adobe for clarifications about Creative Suite using of n-colour profiles, John Setchell and Andy Hatkoff at Pantone for help in defining spot colors as spectral values, Peter Brugman at Screen for help in defining dot gain curves for spot colors and to Peider Fried at X-Rite for help with multicolour profiles. And of course to the vendors who dared the challenge and participated.

Christchurch, New Zealand, September 9, 2007: Gimlé, developers of AbsoluteProof® digital inkjet proofing software, today announce a release of AbsoluteProof 5.0 with revolutionary new color tools and Intel Mac support.

AbsoluteProof® is designed to deal with the most challenging issues in the packaging sector and was wolds first digital inkjet proofing system to offer true support for HiFi color workflows such as Hexachrome® and other multicolor systems via the advanced Intelligent MultiColor Engine®.

Christchurch, New Zealand, May 23, 2006: Gimle announces AbsoluteProof EXTRACHROME, an inkjet proofing system capable of simulating Opaltone and other N-Color processes. Ever sincethe Opaltone process was introduced to the printing industry, proofing has been a major problem —only achievable with the most expensive and time consuming specialized proofing solutions. Finall, using AbsoluteProof EXTRACHROME, the industry can rely on affordable Opaltone proofing with InkJet printers.

Grandville, MI – March 8, 2006: X-Rite, Incorporated (Nasdaq: XRIT) a leading provider of color measurement solutions and Gimlé, developers of AbsoluteProof® digital inkjet proofing software, today announce the inclusion of X-Rite ColorPort® with the AbsoluteProof software.

Christchurch, New Zealand, September 7, 2005: Gimlé, developers of AbsoluteProof® digital inkjet proofing software, today announce enhanced support for expanded gamut inkjet proofing designed to meet the needs of Flexo/Packaging markets with AbsoluteProof® PRO and Extrachrome® technologies.

San Jose, CA (September 7, 2004) ˆ Strengthening their product mix, Color Management.com LLC has signed a Master Dealer Agreement with AbsoluteProof USA to sell and provide services for AbsoluteProof branded products. Under this agreement, the Color Management Group will introduce AbsoluteProof proofing solutions to U.S. companies involved in prepress and printing as well as graphic arts, photography and advertising. Several group members have been certified and are ready to sell, install and provide training on AbsoluteProof systems nationwide.

Christchurch, New Zealand, September 7, 2005: Gimlé, developers of AbsoluteProof® digital inkjet proofing software, today announce their partnership with The Whole Proof (TWP International) to deliver accurate press match proofs for corrugated packaging and folding carton printing companies.

Absolute-Proof EXTRACHROME®

System Capable of Accurately Simulating over 90% of PANTONE® colors

Christchurch, New Zealand, December 1, 2004: The Printing industry can now finally rely on accurate PANTONE Color representations on affordable ink jet printers. AbsoluteProof’s unique Multicolor engine with the Extrachrome® ink set now expands the color gamut and capability of standard Epson Stylus PRO 4000, 7600 or 9600 printers to achieve accurate simulations of over 90% of the PANTONE color library.

This totally revolutionary proofing system is more capable of matching Pantone and other spot colors than any other proofing system (digital or analogue) on the market. It is capable of matching the whole Pantone library with accuracy of an average of below 2 Delta E, that is an average of 1109 colors. 90% of the Pantone colors totals. This is a performance no other current proofing system can repeat.