Colour Graphics Services appointed Myiro dealer

Colour Graphic Services, the Australian colour management, ISO and G7 specialist, is now a dealer for the Myiro-1 and Myiro-9 spectrophotometers in Australia and New Zealand.

Myiro is a Konica Minolta owned company, with its spectrophotometers manufactured in Japan, by the Sensing division.

“The two Myiro colour measurement devices fit perfectly into Colour Graphic Services’ range of prepress colour measurement instruments and ICC profiling tools,” says managing director David Crowther. “In fact, Techkon was so impressed, it is reselling Myiro in the USA – filling the gap of a low investment ICC profiler with high accuracy, and a fast chart-reading version for rapid profiling.”

The Myiro-1 is a hand-held spectrophotometer for any third party supported software such as Mellow Colour PrintSpec, EFI, Oris ColorTuner, Agfa, ColorGate, Creo, ErgoSoft, Color Logic, with others being added to this list.

It relays measured patches, strips or charts (using the measuring guide), wirelessly, avoiding cables and USB cables. In a single pass scan of a Fogra strip, for example, it sends M0, M1 and M2 in one action. List price is $2245 + GST. An optional set of colour management, profiling, QC and monitor calibration tools, MyiroTools, is available at $950 + GST.

According to Colour Graphic Services the Myiro-9 is a “lightning-fast” auto chart reader that delivers data to the majority of third party profiling software used in all print disciplines – 1500 patches in just four minutes. Myiro-9 is the reference instrument used by major print machine manufacturers.

It handles virtually all known colour charts and control wedges, and is never fooled by optical brighteners (OBAs) added to many substrates and papers. Myiro-9 can be adapted to a wide range of substrates. With a list price of $8900 + GST, it is for the seriously busy print shop, which according to Crowther, "can pay for itself in time saved over a short time, where multiple and custom profiles are needed".

Crowther says: “The Myiro spectrophotometers are total quality-manufactured in Japan, by the Sensing division of Konica Minolta, and they measure colour as you see it. Accurate profiling has never been faster or easier, as shown in this video."

Myiro devices will be part of Colour Graphic Services' demonstrations at September’s PacPrint, in Melbourne.