Winner of PrintWeek India Creative Repro Company of the Year 2013
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01 Oct 2013 | 2352 Views | By PrintWeek India
Group FMG (Chennai)
Tel: 91-44-3351 1200 / melvin.deepak@groupfmg.com
Group FMG, an arm of TWG Applied Services (India), is the Creative Repro Company of the Year. Entering for the first time, the company sent in four entries – source images for restoration, and cleaned up and restored images. All the images in RGB were converted to CMYK using One Vision workflow, and the clean-up was done using selective masking and creative colour-up.
According to TWG, the images received were in a poor state and needed quite a bit of image restoration work. The repro work produced for final printing in newspapers and magazines, had brief included instructions like – “Please colour up and cut out the top of man’s head as pop-out”, “Cut-out and crop image and create an old torn-paper portrait effect”, to a more complex, “Please resize, sharpen picture, clean up, boost colours and montage on to background image provided. Make it look natural and vibrant. Add the chip images as per brief and complete the front cover.” And the company says it cleared the jobs in the first round of submission.
Drawing attention of the judges was the work done to the image sent by IPC Media for a magazine cover. A jury member who judged the entries, said, the fact that rich colours go deep down the magazine cover in which the image was used, the reworked image had to be powerful to make it immediately noticeable. “The creative repro work was handled well and supports the magazine’s cover.”
Group FMG’s Indian subsidiary, which employs around 300+staff in its ultra-modern 25,000 sq/ft centre, is the biggest office for the group. The UK office has a staff of 100+; and the US-office is manned with a staff strength of over 70. The factfile is impressive. What with 1.1 million images, 10,000 e-books, 528,000 PDFs and as Prakash Gurumoorthy, director (India), pointed out, “0.0003% error rate.”
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