About ColorGeek²

Dan Gillespie is the founder and owner of ColorGeek, Inc., a color consulting company located in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where Dan has lived for almost 20 years.

Established in 1999, ColorGeek, Inc. is an independent organization that has built a solid reputation by providing exceptional on-site integration and training of color related products in the graphic arts industry. As a reseller for and certified in most popular products, the company can tailor customized turnkey systems. It also offers color tune-ups, annual service agreements and annual support contracts, and an online remote profiling service. ColorGeekÕs seminars and workshops can be customized for small or large groups of customer service representatives, sales people, or technical staff. The companyÕs product offerings, as well as its on-site and remote services, position ColorGeek as a complete solutions provider.

Dan became involved with color reproduction in the late 1980s while working as a scanner operator and production artist at a local newspaper. In 1994, Dan accepted a position with a national graphic arts reseller as an application/color specialist and technical trainer. During his seven year tenure there, he created curriculums for new training courses, evaluated products, developed vendor relations, and performed installations and trainings nationwide on color-related products.

Having this extensive experience to guide him, Dan was ready to start his own business - one that would be vital in the new era of digital printing. Since this realization, Dan has worked tirelessly to develop ColorGeek,Inc. and ColorGeek.com, and after just six years, has launched his company to one of the industry's most trusted and highly regarded color consultanting firms. ColorGeek boasts a client list that reads like a who's who of the printing and publishing industries, providing their digital proofing systems and color management workflows. Dan makes it okay to be a "Geek".

Dan Reid, president of RPimaging, is a teacher, color management consultant, writer, and artist.

Founded in 1998, RPimaging (formerly Renaissance Photographic Imaging) was originally established to offer specialized printing in historical photographic processes. A pioneer in combining digital imaging with historical photographic processes, RPimaging provided advanced digital restoration services for museums and private archives with facsimiles printed using the original photographic process. Today RPimaging resells color management hardware, software, and training to ensure consistent and predictable color printing. RPimaging offers training, workflow consultation, and sales for creative and production businesses.

Color Management is an evolving technology. RPimaging has assisted numerous clients through the pains of implementing and using color management, not only in Photoshop, but downstream in page layout, illustration, RIPs, and computer-to-plate or direct-to-press systems. RPimaging helps clients integrate a color-managed workflow quickly and efficiently for current and legacy Mac and PC operating systems.

More than just a recognized expert in the color management industry, RPimaging has the unique ability to teach difficult concepts in way that is easy to understand and simple to implement. We offer practical methods of color calibration borne out of years of hard won experience in the trenches. Our expansive knowledge and relaxed approach allows you to learn at a comfortable pace while tackling complex problems. Our customers enjoy an increase of productivity and profitability through better utliization of equipment and personnel while not impairing current workflow methods.

RPimaging has built a reputation of providing exemplary on-site integration and training of color management and printing process control. Resellers, vendors, and distributors regularly utilize our color management and proofing integration services and pressroom color calibration in addition to working small and large customers who have already have color management tools but are confused on their use and implementation in their shop.

Mr. Reid keeps on the forefront of digital imaging by serving as a beta test site, writing for trade publications, and defining custom color managed workflows for businesses like yours. A founding member of the acclaimed Color Management Group and co-founder of ColorManagement.com.

More than just a recognized expert in the field of color management, Dan has the unique ability to teach difficult concepts in way that is easy to understand and simple to implement.