ColorLogic History

August 2023

ColorLogic is excited to announce that CoPrA 9 has been honored with the prestigious PRINTING United Alliance 2023 Pinnacle Product Award in the Non-Output device category.

April 2023

ColorLogic GmbH was awarded the 2023 Barbieri Excellence Award for Innovation and Research. The awards recognize three organizations that have demonstrated excellence in color measurement, customer experience, operational business results, digital print integration, and customer advocacy.

November 2021

PRINTING United Alliance awarded the 2021 recipients of the Joe Clarke Innovation Awards. Thorsten Braun won the “Business Innovation and Software Technology” category.

October 2021

Hybrid Software Group PLC (Euronext: HYSG) (the “Company”) announced on 27 October 2021 it acquired the entire issued share capital of ColorLogic GmbH (“ColorLogic”), a company with its registered office in Rheine, Germany.

October 2021

PRINTING United Alliance has selected 27 recipients to receive the 2021 Pinnacle Product Award. This award honors 58 exemplary technologies and products from leading companies across the printing industry. ColorLogic is proud to announce ZePrA 9 Smart Color Server has won in the Software – Color Management and Quality Control category.

April 2021

April 2021

Today, PRINTING United Alliance, announced ColorLogic GmbH as a recipient of the 2021 Sustainable Business Recognition Award. This award honors business operations that focus primarily on daily decisions that reduce a company’s environmental footprint, improve employee safety and well-being, all the while optimizing the bottom line.

December 2020

ColorAnt 7 brings overall new capabilities and enhancements. This update brings more powerful tools to the end-user for day-to-day color management tasks and challenges.

September 2020

This version not only introduces new features, but also enhancements to its current tools such as the ability to extract embedded profiles from DeviceLinks and expanding support for printing with white ink on black substrates.

April 2020

ZePrA 8 offers many new capabilities and improvements such as the new Auto Setup Wizard, an improved Search option in the Configuration and Queues modules, as well as the ability to customize opacity values in spot colors.

January 2020

The release of ColorAnt 6 brings an enhanced MeasureTool, to which end-users can measure multiple print charts without leaving MeasureTool and has the capability to measure partial charts. 

December 2019

In December 2019 ColorLogic moved into its new and larger office in Rheine.

September 2019

The new version of CoPrA introduces significant new features, such as the DeviceLink Iteration module which optimizes the quality of DeviceLink profiles and the SaveInk module, which now includes support for multicolor ink saving for DeviceLink profiles. 

February 2019

ZePra 7 now supports PDF 2.0 in addition to ISO-19593-1:2018, specifically for the packaging sector. Some of the additional features are Restore Configuration, support for non-printing elements and PDF layers, and the preservation and color conversion of Photoshop PSD and TIFF layers 

January 2019

During the #Color2019 in San Diego, the presentation by ColorLogics CTO Thorsten Braun with the title “Nailing Spot Color Reproduction” was a complete success, there was only standing room left.

November 2018

Many thanks to everyone who took part in the ColorLogic Day 2018 at FOGRA in Munich with Impressed! There were many interesting discussions among the three color experts and the participants.

August 2018

ColorAnt 5 is a major upgrade containing many new features and improvements of existing tools requested by customers. The newest standards such as ISO 20654 (SCTV) and CxF/X-4 are more accessible to users in this version of ColorAnt.

April 2018

CoPrA 5 is a major upgrade of ColorLogic’s profiling software. The range of DeviceLink functionalities has been extended with the addition of the Linearization tool and a new algorithm in the SaveInk module provides even greater ink savings to end-users. 

March 2018

Thorsten Braun, CTO of ColorLogic, discusses the creation, analysis and optimization of measurement data for ICC profiles at the TAGA Annual Technical Conference in Baltimore, MD.

February 2018

ColorLogic’ss Product Manager, Dietmar Fuchs, explains the implementation of special colors in printing to more than 230 participants at the FOGRA Symposium.

January 2018

ColorLogic’s participation at # Color2018 in San Diego was a great success. In addition to numerous interesting discussions and product demonstrations in the exhibitor area of the conference, ColorLogic’s CTO, Thorsten Braun, showed how the implementation of special colors can be made predictable, efficient and reliable with the help of the ZePrA color server.

October 2017

At the fully booked event, users, consultants and color management experts listened to the presentations by the experts from ColorLogic and the German sales partner, Impressed. The focus was on “Multicolor”, whereby different tasks were highlighted and solutions based on ColorAnt, CoPrA and ZePrA were shown.

September 2017

ColorLogic’s latest color server, ZePrA 6, now has the ability for a direct connection to PantoneLIVE ™, a cloud-based solution for the digital communication of colors within a complete packaging production. 

August 2017

Printing Industries of America recognized 14 technologies that received a 2017 InterTech Technology Award. This award is given annually to unique and innovative technologies that improve the performance of the graphics industry. ColorLogic is proud to announce that ColorAnt 4 has been awarded one of the coveted InterTech Technology Awards.

April 2017

ColorAnt 4 not only expands current functionalities to its tools, but it also introduces additional support for color measurement devices such as the X-Rite i1iO, X-Rite eXact and Konica Minolta’s ultra fast strip reader, the FD-9. 

March 2017

Thanks to our long-term technology and sales partners, the steadily growing number of customers and our team that has also grown in Germany and the USA, we were able to celebrate our 15th anniversary.

In the future we will continue to focus on what we can do best – developing innovative technologies and products that make everyday work easier for our customers around the world.

December 2016

The annual Color Conference, organized by the Printing Industry of America (PIA), took place in Phoenix, Arizona in 2016 and ColorLogic participated as a key sponsor for the first time, also to meet the growing demand in the USA.

June 2016

The latest version of ZePrA increases productivity with the new multithreading feature, cloud-based automatic import of color tables and configurations, and the expansion of the Spot Color module. 

June 2016

As part of DRUPA 2016, the company organized a ColorLogic day for its partners. The aim was to present the latest innovations in the areas of “Technology and ColorLogic Products” in an undisturbed atmosphere and to intensify the network among our partners.

This was very well received and there were many discussions with and among our partners apart from the presentations. After an intensive 12-hour exchange, everyone agreed: The event was a complete success and will definitely be repeated!

April 2016

The integration of the re-profiling technology for output and DeviceLink profiles in addition to the enhancements of its current features, makes CoPrA 4 the most comprehensive profiling solution. 

March 2015

ColorAnt 3 introduces a new user-interface and innovative features such as the ability to create custom test charts, the CIE Conversion tool and the Edit Primaries tool, just to name a few of the many new features in this release. 

July 2014

ZePrA 4 is a major upgrade, with new features such as Protected Mode to prevent changes to a configuration or queue. There are also improvements to its current features such as a simplified user-interface and an improved optimization of files that contains transparencies when flattening or rasterizing. 

May 2014

The release of CoPrA introduces a new design and improvements to its profiling tools. The user-interface is plainly structured with distinct application areas and new features were the basis for this production-oriented profiling solution. 

April 2013

The tools in ColorAnt 2 generate, analyze and process spectral data. This version also implemented the special requirements for flexographic printing including the exceptional gradation in the highlights.

July 2012

In order to build a successful and competent team in the USA, Barbara Braun-Metz and Thorsten Braun decided to guide it themselves on site. In July 2012 they launched the CrossXColor, Inc. branch office in sunny Cape Coral, Florida.

June 20212

Ten years of developing world-class color management technologies and products.

Ten years of successful and long-term partnership with our OEM partners and introduction of our ColorAnt, CoPrA and ZePrA product range.

And above all – ten years to build a great team that not only works great together, but is also friendly and has made all of these successes possible for us. That had to be celebrated!

May 2012

Together with our sales partner IMPRESSED, we presented our products at DRUPA 2012. The request for product demonstrations and specialist advice was so great that we asked for additional staff from the ColorLogic “Two and a half Men” team over the weekend. In this way, even the most complex questions about color management could be competently answered on site.

May 2012

Version 3 of ZePrA is characterized by the enhanced SmartLink module, the new DLS Manager, a new function for influencing the image quality and the sharpening of pixel images or images in PDF files. 

January 2012

In order to be able to competently and effectively serve the increasing inquiries for ColorLogic products in the USA, Canada and South America, a strategic decision was necessary about which route would be best. We decided to found an independent company in the USA that will take care of both the support of our OEM partners in the USA and the development of a sales network for North and South America.

September 2011

A large number of new functions have been integrated in CoPrA 2.0: measurement data corrections to enable the best profile quality even with non-optimal measurement data, new options for black point calculation, batch profiling for greater efficiency, creation of PDF profile reports and preview profiles that are suitable for the soft proof of multicolor profiles.

June 2011

Our experience in analyzing profiles has shown us that it is often not the creation of the profile itself, but the underlying measurement data that are the actual cause of many problems and the continually poor quality. In order to be able to analyze measurement data better and more efficiently, many tools were created in our development department and thus, our product idea for ColorAnt was born. In June 2012 the time had come when we were able to present ColorAnt 1.0 to the market.

December 2010

Version 2 of ZePrA was characterized above all by the new SmartLink technology, which enabled DeviceLink profiles to be calculated dynamically for the conversion. The new gradation module and the ability to integrate ZePrA into complex workflow frameworks through the command line interface made ZePrA 2 one of the most effective color servers.

September 2008

In order to do justice to the growing role of ColorLogic products, it was necessary to take someone on board to help us drive products forward, analyze customer needs and turn innovative applications into a solution. Our former colleague, Dietmar Fuchs, started with us in September 2008. His many years of experience in product management, print, prepress and his cooperation with development departments made him the perfect addition to our team of specialists.

July 2008

In summer 2008 the time had come – the first version of our ZePrA color server was ready. In the beginning a number of critical voices doubted whether there was even a market for such a product, but it soon became clear that we were spot on with our ambitious intentions to develop a color server with our own PDF technology. Even if version 1 still had its limitations, we were able to quickly recognize the potential of such a product: An ICC-based color server that can be easily integrated into different work processes.

August 2007

CoLiPri was better received by the market than we dared hope. But there were always inquiries as to whether we could offer a profiling solution outside of the Adobe Photoshop environment. The answer was a Color Profiling Application – CoPrA. By detaching from the Photoshop environment, there were also additional options that we could not implement with CoLiPri, such as switching between different color spaces. Another interesting aspect is that we always use our own SDK (Software Development Kit) as the basis for our ColorLogic products.

June 2006

What already became apparent after three years was an urgent necessity after four years – we needed larger company premises, also because we wanted to expand our team.

Since we still preferred the concept of “family and company under one roof”, the move to the new premises was due after a year of construction. With over 130 square meters of office space tailored precisely to our needs, we had created the prerequisites for the company to continue to grow in terms of personnel.

September 2005

The first ColorLogic-branded products CoLiPri and ColorLogic DLS (DeviceLink Sets) were introduced through Impressed GmbH. CoLiPri was created as an Adobe Photoshop plug-in, which enabled users to apply devicelink profiles directly in Photoshop.

August 2005

When a first prototype had emerged from the product idea, we looked for suitable sales partners. Here, too, a partnership was important to us, in which we could work together towards one goal – to position CoLiPri and our DeviceLink sets, or DLS for short, sensibly in the printing industry.

With IMPRESSED GmbH, based in Hamburg, we were lucky enough to find a sales and consulting company that “works” just as much as we do. In August 2005, a long-term, trusting and friendly cooperation began, which connects us to this day and which forms the basis for the successful marketing of our products in German-speaking countries.

April 2005

This idea arose during a drive after an appointment with a partner: What would be … if we, as ColorLogic … would simply develop and offer a small product? More than a technology demo that shows which requirements can be covered with DeviceLinks. Preferably in an environment that most users are familiar with, something like Adobe Photoshop.

When we got home, we had the concept for a Photoshop plug-in that can calculate DeviceLinks and apply them directly in Photoshop. We called it: Color-Link-Print – CoLiPri was “born”.

January 2005

One of our founding ideas was to develop a color server that automatically converts color to PDF and pixel data. We now had a PDF expert on board when Dr. Björn Seegers decided to support our team with his knowledge and experience. His addition to our team made it possible for us to put our idea into practice.

August 2002

Our first OEM project was the development of a monitor profiling for the Braunschweig-based Quatographic Technology GmbH.

In the initial phase, the focus was still on CRT monitors, but already during the development of the first software version, our priorities shifted towards CRT monitors and hardware-calibratable monitors. An industry in transition – and we were able to establish ourselves as a young, flexible company in this area.

July 2002

As soon as the first projects became concrete and the development of ColorLogic technologies was due, Thorsten Braun started as the technological head at ColorLogic.

His experience, especially in the development of color technologies, enabled him to develop conceptual solutions that were designed for continuous further development and multiple use. We, our partners and our customers still benefit from this today.

March 2002

Many years of experience in the areas of software development, color management, printing and prepress paired with many ideas on how to optimize color reproduction was the ideal basis for founding ColorLogic GmbH.

Since it was important to us – and still is – to take care of the company and family at the same time, an expanded basement room in our house became the first company headquarters of ColorLogic GmbH.