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Name or Function	Contact
Hjortur (Hugo) Kristinsson Managing Director and Technical Director	Hugo@Absolute-Proof.Com Tel: [+64] 3 353-5640 Cell: [+64] 21 446-535
Marketing Division Market Development	sales@absolute-proof.com Tel: [+64] 3 353-5640
Potential Sales Inquiries Marketing Department	Contact your local distributor or email us at Sales@Absolute-Proof.Com
Potential Distributor Inquiries Market Development Department	sales@absolute-proof.com
Technical Information Technical Division	info@Absolute-Proof.Com
Gimlé Web Site	www.absolute-proof.com
Distributor Log On Gimlé Web Site (Secure)	Contact us for FTP access
Facsimile Transmission	Fax: [+64] 3 35 35 640

Gimlé Limited Head Office

Head Office:	Gimlé Limited
Address:	Suite 6, 75 Peterborough St. Christchurch, New Zealand 8001
Telephone:	[+64] 3 353-5640
Fax:	[+64] 3 35 35 640
Email:	Info@Absolute-Proof.Com

EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT

Hugo Kristinsson
Managing Director
and Technical Director

Hugo Kristinsson was born in Reykjavik, Iceland and is a fully qualified and experienced photo-lithographer who has been professionally involved in printing and pre-press since 1978. For many years he worked for one of Iceland’s biggest printing houses and for Iceland’s biggest newspaper group. In 1985 he founded his own printing and publishing organisation which he ran until 1993 prior to moving his family to New Zealand. On arrival in New Zealand he performed the duties of Information Technology Manager for a major national pre-press company whilst specifying and developing AbsoluteProof. He founded Gimlé Limited in 1999 as the organisation to own and market this first product and others still in design. Over the years Hugo became somewhat expert at colormatching and is now a fully licensed ICC profiler in order to support Gimlé’s activities in this area.

Hugo has always followed new trends and has continuously operated in the forefront of printing technology. With the advent of digital imaging Hugo became frustrated at the cost, complexity and/or inferior quality of digital proofing systems. Most of the software on the marked offered third party RIP's and therefore did not deliver imagesetter RIP integrity. With the development of international industry standards for colour management, Hugo set out to do something about it.

The objectives were:	To achieve:
Ease of Use	Non-technical installation and operation
Affordability	To suit all prepress environments, small and large, A1, A2 and A3 versions
Image accuracy	True reflection of what your imagesetter RIP reproduces and therefore what will be printed
Perfect Colormatching	True reflection of the colors and tones being printed
Adherence to the ICC Profiling Standard	Colour management to a true and accurate industry colour standard
Flexibility	Capability to drive all main wide format printers and PostScript devices
Total Automation	Automatic proofing using imagesetter RIP output or any other output deposited in Hot Folder

Resulting in:

A visual image virtually indistinguishable from the final printed article from the press

A proof costing the user no more than the consumables used

The ability to do small jobs directly on the digital printer without incurring the set-up cost of going to press

After two years of specification, design, management of development resources and testing, culminating in a year's trial in 3 different fully operational environments using prototypes under full working load, Hugo had his first product - AbsoluteProof. During the course of the development of AbsoluteProof, which was performed by our Christchurch based software development Technical Division, Hugo has won the support of a variety of organizations which recognized the importance of what was being achieved. These organizations included Technology New Zealand, Trade NZ, Canterbury Development Corporation and Business In The Community (BITC). The product was proudly launched at the end of 2000 and the market development programme began.

We are seeking distributors for Gimlé products throughout the world. Distributors must have a good reputation in their existing dealings with the prepress or print industry at present, be familiar with Macintosh systems and have demonstration and first tier support facilities. Ideally Gimlé's distributors should be competent licensed ICC profilers but Gimlé Limited can assist those wishing to move into this lucrative business activity or improve their skills in profiling.

The terms and conditions for distributing AbsoluteProof are currently extremely favorable. The retail price of the one-off license fee for AbsoluteProof ranges from US$3.500 to US$7500.

Digital proofing is here to stay. It is inevitable that the printing and prepress sectors will adopt the technology as soon as it is seen to be viable and cost-effective. Gimlé's products are quite different from the others in that they are very easy for the end user to operate, affordable to purchase and run, preserve the integrity of the imagesetter RIP and will drive any Epson, Roland or Hewlett Packard Wide Format printer in addition to any PostScript printer. The quality produced by AbsoluteProof is at least as good as specialised products costing many times that of AbsoluteProof.

The ease of use and the quality of the output from AbsoluteProof has to be seen to be believed. In fact, since we know that many printers have been put off by the complexity of many other products, we are quite prepared to offer, through our distributors, a 30 day trial of AbsoluteProof in the printer’s own working environment. Once the client is convinced the demonstration program can be replaced by the full product with an indefinite license in exchange for the one-off license fee.

We do not see that selling AbsoluteProof requires separate or additional client calls to achieve sales; rather we see this as simply another product for your existing sales force to sell during their normal visits to printers. Every printer should be interested in significantly reducing their proof printing costs without loss of quality.

One of AbsoluteProof’s greatest strengths is that it has been designed by the printing industry for the printing industry.

If you would like to receive a copy of AbsoluteProof to see whether it is a product which meets your requirements and one which you would be interested in distributing, please contact us and we can arrange a trial. We are very confident that you will be most impressed with the ease of use of AbsoluteProof and the quality attainable on your existing hardware. Our distributorships are most favourable at present and the market is wide open; distributors selling expensive specialised digital proofing programs will have great difficulty competing unless they either decimate their prices or find some other way to compete with AbsoluteProof.

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AbsoluteProof, a color management workflow tool, processes files from your imagesetter RIP. Proofs traps and overprints, ease of use and value for money. Multiple RIP inputs: Harlequin, Adobe, Delta, Scitex Brisque. Multiple outputs.