color, Inc., creator of Remote Director, the #1 digital-proofing system worldwide, announces it has entered a strategic partnership with Alder Color Solutions. Effective January 1, 2021 Alder Color Solutions will take on a dual role of reseller and technology partner with ICScolor, Inc., supporting customers with installation and training as well as playing a role in hardware development.

Under the leadership of Keith Voigt, Alder Color Solutions is a team of consultants with many years of experience specializing in brand quality, color management, automation, workflow integration and press calibration. With this background, Alder Color Solutions is uniquely qualified to enable the implementation of Remote Director as the backbone of a digital proofing solution for brand owners, pre-media companies, agencies and printers.

We recognized that analog hard copy proofing was a major hurdle to overcome in an otherwise digital graphics production workflow,” states Keith Voigt, President, Alder Color Solutions. “With their industry leading Remote Director, ICScolor, Inc. has the solution set needed for color critical work and is our de-facto solution for digital color proofing. Adding ProofCheck to Remote Director was a great accomplishment for ICScolor in 2020. We look forward to the expanded product roadmap for 2021 that will close the loop on digital color proofing throughout the supplier food chain.”

“Remote Director is the backbone of an eco-system of solutions to tackle the issue of an end-to-end digital color proofing solution,” comments Dan Caldwell, President, ICScolor, Inc. “With our core competency in color and software development, we are thrilled to have Alder Color Solutions as a technology partner. They will bring their expertise to prototyping and integrating a hardware component to our product offering that will complete our mandate of digital color proofing from think to ink.”

Remote Director is the patented software of ICScolor, Inc. that not only guarantees that all key stakeholders are viewing the same color on calibrated monitors, but “heals” that break caused by analog hard copy proofs in an otherwise totally digital workflow. As a cloud-based system, Remote Director captures color conditions, version control, auto compilation of comments, approvals and full audit trail assuring accurate end-to-end digital color proofing.