We are very excited to introduce you to our wonderful new staff Liz and Mal.

Elizabeth Browne has come on board to fill the much needed "Internal Sales" position within the company. She has a focus on customer support and relations, such as responding quickly to orders or requests for information. Liz has an excellent sales and marketing background including formal education in marketing. Please join us in welcoming Liz to the team as she is a valuable asset to cielab and our customers.

Malcolm Ross has been in the wide format supplies industry since the early days of drafting tables changed to the first HP & Encad wide format inkjet printers. His recent position was with one of our competators for around 11 years in an internal sales / warehousing role, and he will be filling a similar role within the cielab team. Mal has an amazing knowledge of product and knows many people within the industry. We look forward to his expertise at stock control and hope that this brings even faster delivery times to our customers, please welcome him aboard if you have th luck to get him on the phone.

Cielab will be making the most of our presence at Pacprint 09 with a large, and full custom stand.
We will be demonstrating the latest in technology including the HP Designjet Z-series printers, The latest HP Dreamcolor displays, Barbieri Electronic colour managemnt equipment & software, NEC Spectraview Colour critical Displays, The brand new Wacom Intuos4 and Cintiq 12UX pen display, SAi Photoprint Rip Software and more.

In November 2008 Nicholas Hellmuth (Flaar Reports) visited a digital signage printing company with more than two dozen wide-format inkjet printers with the goal to see how color management equipment works in the real world. The result is his “Site-visit Case Study with grand format solvent and UV-curable printers”.

Nicholas Hellmuth is a consultant and lecturer in wide format printing and lectured all over the world. He is also president and founder of FLAAR. Their websiteswww.FineArtGicleePrinters.org, www.wide-format-printers.org, and www.large-format-printers.org are reviewing high end scanning and large format printing hardware and software and are read by over one million people a year.

In his recent report Nicholas Hellmuth describes the easy-of-use of color management software and devices in combination with many different UV-curable printers, solvent printers and textile printers. The most interesting part to end-users most probably is the explanation on cost benefits when using ICC profiles.
In this report Nicholas Hellmuth dedicated a part also to BARBIERI electronic and their measuring devices. Thanks to several statements of actual BARBIERI equipment users readers will understand which benefits BARBIERI solutions offer.

This report can be downloaded at: http://www.wide-format-printers.org/FLAAR_report_covers/705527_Color_Management_Site_Visit_BARBIERI_Factory.pdf

Further reports on color management can be found at: http://www.large-format-printers.org/color-management_custom-ICC-color-profiles_wide-format-inkjet-printers_workflow-linearization_color-matching/BARBIERI-electronic_spectrophotometer_Spectro-Swing_Spectro-LFP_introduction_glossary_canned-ICC-color-profiling.php

On February 26th and 27th Nicholas Hellmuth will be present at the In-House Show at WP Digital. During this event Barbieri’s special measuring devices will be shown in a life performance and all visitors can have first hand information about the top quality products Spectro LFP and Spectro Swing of Barbieri as well as the Virtu RS25/35 and the brand new Roll to Roll RR50 of WP Digital.

Our new headquarters in Brisbane northern suburb "Brendale" couldn't have come soon enough.

Our new location gives us one of the larger warehouse and office facilities in the region, including our state-of-the-art "See-Lab" colour laboratory demonstrating colour workflow in action with high quality design, evaluation and output devices previously not readily on display.

We have branded our colour laboratory the "See-Lab" so that it reinforces our intentional selection of identity as cielab as both the central core colour space of colour management, but to also display that it is place to turn colour management into something tangible that you can see in action.

"We have invested significantly into our facilities" says Michael Rooney (Managing Director of the company), "we have not only the latest internal technology to support our customer base, but some of the most amazing products and solution on demonstration. I believe that we are the first specialist company of our type to put the full workflow of tools required through capture, design, and output in a fully colour managed environment. We invite the industry to bring your photos, or design files to our colour lab and actually see a high level of colour management across a wide range of devices and outputs in action as it would be expected in a production environment".

The See-Lab demonstrates one of the largest floor graphics we are aware of, at 8mtrs x 7.5mtrs it's definitely quite amazing and well worth seeing.

You can now contact cielab on our new, easy to remember Australian numbers

Phone: 1300 CIELAB (1300 243 522)
Fax: 1300 4 COLOR (1300 426 567)

And our new address is:
Unit 2, 8 Bult Drive, Brendale (Brisbane)
Qld 4500

Earlier in June, cielab launched a new forums site in order to offer a new level of unique customer support frequently completely unavailable in the region.

www.cielab.com.au/forums/

The site is free for all professionals that require digital output accuracy to join and participate in, with cielab moderating it to strictly topic related posts regarding colour management or mentioned products. This includes member "user group" only sections for both BARBIERI electronic products, and Apple Mac Leopard 10.5 server. These sections are available only by request to restrict the member group to only those verified to have, use and know the related products ensuring interaction with only equivalent or experienced users. We've been kicking off the topics and discussions but you are welcome to get involved and get new topics running straight away.
With a large section on digital colour managent focused into specific rip or printer categories, every user is bound to find a valuable tool in this free site.

Primary manufacturers have already become involved including HP, BARBIERI electronic, Onyx and more, so its not only cielab's colour expertise that will benefit your discussions, but you will be interacting directly with key contacts from most brands of rip and hardware manufacturers.