We have real pressroom solutions since we know and understand the variables that can plague the pressroom causing consistency issues. When you hire Alder, you’re hiring people who have actually worked in the pressroom, not a person that visits them occasionally. We ask questions, review your current workflow, listen and analyze past problems and successes. We look hard to identify any pain you are having and focus on relieving that pain. We work with you to create workflows that will improve your procedures and increase employee effectiveness and efficiency.

We are GRACoL® Experts and can provide quality control tools for the pressroom from handheld spectrodensitometers to scanning spectrodensitometers. We can retrofit your presses with CIP4 ink controls and give you complete control of the process from prepress to pressroom. This gives you the edge by reducing print time, material waste and thus improving your margins.

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Just purchasing the latest printer and software won’t get you the best possible color. It also doesn’t guarantee your prints will be archival or have the greatest possible dynamic range and color gamut.

We can guide you through the maze of profiles, color spaces and application settings to get you to where you want to go, a world of accurate, predictable and repeatable color. With Alder you can focus on your photography – we’ll ensure it prints the way you want it to.

From opening RAW files to UV coatings for your final prints Alder has the experience and expertise to keep your color consistent. Since we are an independent consulting company, we won’t have you buy a $10,000 RIP when a $700.00 one will fit your needs and your budget.

Alder provides service to clients of all sizes. We can come to your facility and analyze your entire workflow or you can get affordable tech support options that give you access to our experts when you really need them.

We specialize in getting your color solutions up and running effectively. We can access your computer and make needed changes as you watch. If your monitor and prints stop matching, we’ll figure it out. Sometimes all it takes is a phone call. With Alder there to support you, you definitely notice an improvement in the amount of time and materials you use on a job with a lot less frustration.

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The latest inkjet and RIP technologies have given the design community the ability to show clients color accurate proofs, mock-ups and revisions in minutes instead of days. Alder can help you integrate these new systems in an easy to use and cost effective manner. We have the expertise to make it simple.

Today, most clients often demand the same finished project in multiple mediums, (i.e. web, print and multimedia). To convert a design and replicate colors in each medium is a tedious time-consuming task for many designers.

Setting-up applications so they act and print the same way and having a good soft proof are essential tools in keeping the look you intended consistent while saving time and money. Proofing with an inkjet printer and color managed RIP gives you the tools and confidence that your project will look as you intended, no matter where it is printed.

Your job is to create great designs. Our job is to seamlessly integrate your software and their updates into your workflow. We help you with questions like “When I receive a scanned image or a digital photo, how do I know what the intended color was suppose to be? Is my screen calibrated properly to accurately represent those colors? Is my system calibrated to output the correct color?”

Alder can help you see the intended colors, profile your monitor, create soft proofs and output a consistent color across all mediums, every time.

Simply put, Alder helps you produce consistent color from your screen, to proofs to the press.

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• Dye Sublimation
• Apparel
• Silksreen

No matter what kind of printing you do, consistent color is important. We help specialty printers by creating solutions that help them reduce color errors, improve workflow and increase margins. Specialty printers have a distinct set of issues given the unique mediums and methods of output you work with. Our extensive color experience can help you accomplish your color management needs. We provide you the tools, training and support to help update and maintain your systems so you can concentrate on the creative – not your support systems.

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