Colour Confidence Press Release

Birmingham UK, 12th June, 2006 - Colour Confidence, the leading independent colour management specialists have today unveiled their brand new colour management package, the Studio XR. Unique to Colour Confidence, it includes a monitor profiling package based around the Monaco Optix XR, the Kodak Color Management Check-Up Kit, and an inkjet paper test pack. Studio XR is available at an introductory price of £99/€149 ex. VAT from www.colourconfidence.com . Studio XR is designed to provide users with an easy-to-use colour management solution in a box.

The contents include:

Monaco Optix XR monitor calibrator
Kodak Color Management Check-Up Kit
Colour Confidence inkjet paper test pack
£20/€30 voucher, redeemable against the customer’s next colour management purchase.
“We are continually looking at ways to make colour management more accessible to a wider audience and help educate the market. Introducing the Studio XR at just £99/€149 will give many customers the chance to incorporate high-quality monitor calibration into their digital workflow as well as the opportunity to learn more about colour management.” Commented Geoffrey Clements, Managing Director, Colour Confidence.

Monaco Optix XR
The monitor calibration device included in the Studio XR is the award-winning Monaco Optix XR. Normally retailing for £150/€225 ex VAT, the Optix XR builds profiles for LCD, CRT and laptop screens. Combining a state of the art colorimeter with powerful wizard based software, the Optix XR is suited to users at all levels.

Kodak Color Management Check-Up Kit
The Kodak Colour Management Check-Up Kit provides users with a visual reference to check the colour accuracy of their screens and printers. It consists of seven colour-managed test prints, their equivalent digital files on a CD Rom and the Colour Confidence guidance document. Providing no-nonsense advice for anyone working with colour, the guidance document has been downloaded by many thousands of users and has helped accelerate the awareness of colour management.

Inkjet paper test pack
Quality of media is an important consideration when trying to achieve accurate colour. To give customers an insight into the real difference a paper can make, Colour Confidence have specially selected five types of paper to be included in the Studio XR. The papers in the pack represent the best-of-breed from PermaJet and are: Fibre-based Gloss, Oyster, Portrait, Matt Plus, and Parchment.

System Requirements
Monaco Optix XR
Windows: 98SE/ME/2000/XP and Pentium (or better), 32Mb application RAM, 50Mb disk space. Colour monitor with 24-bit or greater video card (with LUT support).
Macintosh: OS X (10.2 or later), 128Mb RAM, 64Mb disk space. Colour monitor with 24-bit or greater video card (with LUT support).