The short of it is that we help businesses that rely on color accuracy in any capacity as part of their business workflow to create and produce consistent, state of the art color – period.

Whether you are a printer, publishing company, graphic design firm, or photographer, we can help you create a strategy combining technology and education into your electronic production departments. What does that mean? It means you get enhanced end-to-end control of the variables that affect the quality of printed images. This helps you reduce errors that lead to lost production time and money due to reprints

If increasing the quality of your work, while saving time and money sounds good to you, then you should call Alder today. We have years of experience on all sides of the printing business.

Bruce Bayne, Founder and President: Bayne brings over 30 years of experience in the printing industry in both production and management at several newspapers, web and sheet-fed plants, color trade shops, as well as with a national supply company.

With hands-on experience in graphic production, prepress production, installation, and training, Bayne brings a unique combination of experience to his work. Bayne set-up and managed the electronic publishing and pre-press functions for The Emporium (a Northwest retail chain) and successfully eliminated all outside pre-press costs including color separations.
Bayne co-founded the Pacific Northwest Color Management User's Group. He is considered an expert by the printing industry on production workflow and color management. He was one of the first printing professionals to be trained as a GRACoL® Expert and can train GRACoL MasterPrinters™.

In 1993, Bayne started consulting for a national graphics arts reseller and in 1995 went into business for himself as a prepress consultant and trainer. His consulting business grew and Alder Technology was incorporated in 1999.

Bayne focuses his consulting efforts on specialized prepress application training, system integration, digital color production, PDF workflow, and process control management. His goal is to provide a service to clients that improves their bottom line and makes their daily operations more effective.

Kevin Wilson is Alder’s Color Specialist in our Portland office. Wilson works with color managed proofing systems and provides technical support & systems integration.

Wilson has 24 years of experience. He started as a Computer Systems Engineering Technician with the US Air Force, where he helped design, install, maintain and train on Large/mini-frame and PC computers.

Wilson started working in the Graphics Industry in 1993 and he has worked as an Information Systems Manager for ArtLab Europe, an international design studio specializing in visual and cross cultural communications solutions, located in Altensteig Germany. While at ArtLab Europe, He was part of the creative team and worked with the production department. He also helped establish the School of Digital Communications at Media Village in Altensteig and worked with the Vienna, Austria based Eastern European Training Institute teaching Design and Prepress workflows in Ukraine, Russia and Romania.

John Horn is Alder’s Color Specialist in our California branch. Horn provides training on printing, workflows and color management. He is certified by Gretag Macbeth to train on their products and create ICC profiles. He is also certified by EFI/Best, Onyx, Absolute Proof, and ColorBurst to install and train on their RIPs.

Horn has been working in the color printing industry for over 30 years and began his career working in pre-press trade shops as a scanner operator. He later managed several color departments and trade shops in southern California.

At the beginning of the DTP revolution Horn took his color expertise to one of the first software companies making products for scanning and color manipulation. He was the Product Manager for the first desktop CMYK correction software. (Before CMYK Photoshop).

As the V.P. of Product Development for one of the first RIP companies providing proofing solutions on inkjet printers, Horn helped create award-winning products that helped push inkjet printing to the level it is at today.

Horn has been a speaker for the APA, ASMP, FTA, IPA and other institutions on color control and printing.