Colorsource links to color management H/W and S/W Vendors

Color Management tools Vendors
Colorsource engineering	Colorsource has developed for the graphic industries a set of paying or free standard applications allowing very fast and easy calibration of presses for matching public ISO12647-2-3-4-6 and G7/IDEAlliance CMYK printing standards, but also for building, publishing and communication publication their own private CMYK and N colors standards, which is almost always requested for packaging printing. Colorsource software such as MagicPress and MagicPrepress are compatible with almost all competitive 45/0° scanning spectrophotometers on the market (X-Rite, Techkon, Konica-Minolta). With Colorsource i1Pro 1, 2 or 3 spectrophotometers become the most efficient X-Rite pressroom spectrophotometers. Similarly with Konica-Minolta, MYIRO with Colorsource apps. replaces their unnecessarily expensive FD7 model!
X-Rite	GretagMacbeth and X-Rite merged in 2006. Most of the color management hardware and software products in the new X-Rite catalog are of course of GretagMacbeth origin. The hardware products of the new group cover almost all the classic applications of colorimetry in photography, in the Graphic Industries and in other Industries.
Konica-Minolta	Historical Japanese player in industrial colorimetry, Konica-Minolta are interested since 2010 by the Graphic Industries, when they launched their first 45/0° pressroom spectrophotometer, the Konica-Minolta FD7. The FD7 is an unnecessarily expensive workshop spectrophotometer (like its competitor X-Rite eXact 2), because Konica-Minolta never listened ... to those who know the real market needs. More recently, Konica-Minolta at last launched a new 45/0° spectrophotometer really competing with the excellent X-Rite i1Pro family: the MYIRO-1, offering quite competitive performances and pricing. And MYIRO-1 users can use Colorsource apps for calibrating their plates and calibrating their CMYK presses, thanks to Colorsource providing the proprietary format .xml reference files allowing to measure the CMYK calibration charts with MYIROtools. But we wondered if Konica-Minolta did want to sell their products to graphic industries, when they use undocumented proprietary formats to describe their CMYK color charts! And what about measuring N-CLR charts? In the end, we have the answer today: After years of erratic marketing, Konica-Minolta just announced in July 2025 that they will drop ALL their spectrophotometers models dedicated to graphic industries. See on this issue: https://www.myiro.com This is a pity when Graphic Industries would take advantages of more competition between their suppliers.
Datacolor - Colorvision	Specialists of industrial colorimetry, Datacolor offer some entry-level solutions for digital color printing. Problem: Is there REALLY an entry-level market in this strategic field for Graphic Industries? We don't think so.
Techkon	Based in Germany, Techkon offer a full set of color management equipment's for the pressroom. Techkon has been bought by the US company Datacolor in January 2025. See following link: Datacolor Expands Global Color Technology Leadership with Acquisition of TECHKON \| Datacolor This is a pity when Graphic Industries would take advantages of more competition between their suppliers. But maybe it could bring more software development abilities to Techkon, who were too much oriented on hardware equipment and no enough of the associated software solutions? We shall see.
Barbieri	Based in Italy, Barbieri offer a full set of products for color management in photographic, prepress, and printing industries.
Just-Normlicht	Based in Germany, Just Normlicht today supplement their viewing booths by a range of interesting light measurement dedicated spectrophotometers.

Color Management tools Vendors