GMG launches CoZone Collaborate

GMG has launched CoZone Collaborate, an online project collaboration, soft-proofing and approval tool.

CoZone Collaborate is the first module of GMG CoZone, a web-based platform that integrates cloud and project collaboration with color management.

CoZone Collaborate allows project participants to manage, review, proof and approve graphic arts content and, by the end of 2013, multimedia content within an online soft-proofing environment.

The system is completely cloud-based, with no software or hardware to install and manage.

Central to the CoZone Collaborate service is an easy-to-use user interface, allowing end users to use the module with minimal training. Powerful approval and soft-proofing features provide users with a comprehensive yet easy-to-use toolset to mark up, measure, review and collaborate.

While CoZone Collaborate features a powerful soft-proofing engine, future CoZone modules will allow connection to GMG-calibrated hard-copy output devices, delivering an end-to-end color-accurate workflow.

Marcus Wright, CoZone product manager at GMG, said: ‘The way that jobs are produced, and the growing expectations of customers, mean that the industry has to sit up and take note. Adopting a more distributed and collaborative methodology that exploits the clear benefits of the cloud when producing content means easier, faster and more streamlined output, which is good for the industry as a whole.

‘CoZone Collaborate has been developed from the ground up to address the needs of those looking for a cost-effective, scalable and easy-to-use system for collaborating, reviewing, proofing and approving media files prior to production.’

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