Focoltone Color Solutions

Fast, effective and inexpensive calibration tool for digital color printers by Focoltone

6 May 2004, Germany - Focusing on speed, effectiveness and low cost, Focoltone is reinventing the way the graphic and print industry handles digital color control with its revolutionary product, Focoltone Intelligent Color Calibration System (ICCS).
This innovative and high-performance system rewrites the usual industry practice of employing time-consuming tools requiring professional expertise that usually runs into thousands of dollars.

At only US$900, Focoltone ICCS is an easy-to-use five-step system that requires little color knowledge and expertise of the user. Its unique capabilities are due to the use of advanced Artificial Intelligence and Negative Color Comparison techniques in its methodology.

Winson Lan, CEO of KiKUZE Solutions which owns Focoltone, says, "Focoltone ICCS is certainly a welcome boon to graphic designers, print shops, color proofers, printing houses and any organization that require accurate and consistent color from their digital color printers. With this tool, users will be assured of Color OK!, which stands for high-quality CMYK digital color output near to offset process color standards."

Instead of paying steep prices for equipment, such as spectrophotometers or densitometers, and color management experts to calibrate color printers, users can easily run the five-step Focoltone ICCS calibration process in five minutes to achieve Color OK! results at a fraction of the cost. Users can simply follow the automatic calibration process set out in the program, which creates a new ICC profile for the printer to produce accurate color output. They can calibrate as often as required to counter the printer's inherent instabilities like machine drift, humidity and temperature changes, and ink or toner variations.

Focoltone ICCS comes with a Focoltone Calibration Chart that provides an instant visual reference for a printer's output to be compared against. The Calibration Chart provides a perfect target reference with its range of offset-printed CMYK colors.

Operating as a plug-in to Adobe Photoshop, Focoltone ICCS is recommended to work on digital color printers that support International Color Consortium (ICC) profiles. This release is compliant to ICC standards and is launching at drupa 2004 in Germany.