the magazine of GMG worldwide June 2013
CONTENTS
News 3
OpenColor wins award 4
Case Study: CSW and
OpenColor 6
ProductionSuite changes
the world 9
Case Study: Innomark and
GMG color management 16
TechSpecs 18
www.gmgcolor.com
However wide a color goes, it stays that color.
GMG ProductionSuite is the only workflow a Wide Format
printer will ever need. It manages and controls the entire
process from pre-press to print, through to finishing. The
modular based software incorporates GMG's renowned color
management and ink saving solutions into a seamless, efficient
and profitable resource for any business.
For more information go to www.gmgcolor.com
New version of GMG
ColorServer released
GMG’s ground-breaking color conversion software,
ColorServer, is now available as version 4.8. The new
version features many upgrades and improvements.
Some of them include:
• Improved processing of large files
• Revised PDF hotfolder import and export
functionality
• Improved system performance
• Brighter spot colors on digital printers
• Better bright spot colors on digital printers
Other new features include
the Paper Adaptation Tool,
which allows calculating
conversion profiles to a
user-defined media white
point. This is an answer
to an everyday problem
experienced at almost
any printing house in
the world. With 4.8 there is also the ability to directly
output a PDF to a Windows printer from a PDF hot
folder. More information in the next issue of trueColors.
ColorMaster 2.0 release
brings process-neutral
RGB image workflows
GMG ColorMaster 2.0 supplies predefined settings and
optimized profiles for most popular target color spaces.
It also offers a color space that covers all common
printing gamuts.
“ColorMaster helps to provide a color-accurate latebinding RGB-workflow, meaning that images are not
converted from their RGB space until as late as possible.
It is ideal for those who create data from a wide variety
of media and printing processes, or who process
printing data for production in different countries and
have to consider different print and online standards,”
comments Michael Farkas, GMG director of marketing
“It is a solution to a problem people have been talking
about for twenty years. It offers the right way to work
with RGB files in an effective and productive manner.”
ColorMaster concept born from IKEA/GMG relationship
GMG Director of Marketing, Michael Farkas, worked at IKEA before he joined GMG.
There he developed the ColorMaster concept with GMG. “At IKEA, I was responsible for
the process quality of over 200 million catalogues annually. It was imperative to match
color exactly, no matter where the images were printed or what substrate was used.
Unfortunately, ICC technology offered limited capabilities and a static rendering engine,”
explains Farkas. “The ColorMaster concept was conceived and created between GMG
and IKEA to individually adjust separation profiles to a common appearance. It offers the
opportunity to avoid multiple correction rounds for mixed media production. At IKEA, we
not only reduced our repro effort significantly but also offered our print service providers
ready-to-print images that allowed faster makereadies and consistent output, worldwide.”
GMG Director of
Marketing,
Michael Farkas
Marc Welch, GMG Americas (middle)
receives the FTA Technical Innovation
Award from Joe Tuccitto, FTA Education
Director (left), , and Shelley Rubin, FTA
Educational Services Manager.
OpenColor:
OpenColor FTA award
increasing
its profile.
At a gala awards banquet that took place in San Diego, California
on April 28-30, GMG OpenColor recently received the prestigious
Flexographic Technical Association Technical Innovation Award in the
category of Prepress-Graphics.
What about this revolutionary new software is creating waves in the
flexo industry? Read more...
The Technical Innovation Award recognizes companies and/or
individuals whose visions and perseverance bring new products
and technologies to the flexographic marketplace. For more
than 15 years, FTA has been rewarding those creative thinkers
and risk-takers who seek ways to further refine and advance
the flexographic printing process and who bring significant
contributions to the industry in terms of adoption, change, and
competitive posture.
GMG OpenColor is a proofing technology that precisely predicts
the color appearance of printed inks, particularly ‘overprints’
– inks printed on top of each other. Previously unattainable, a
proof can now accurately simulate a printed result.
A continuing trend in package printing is the increasing complexity
of jobs and the use of multi-color printing while reducing time
to market. Many jobs require different combinations of inks,
substrates, screening, and other variables. One of the most
difficult challenges facing a converter is accurately and reliably
communicating color between all parties of the supply chain,
from the brand manager to the printer. To understand colors by
mixing them, every combination would require a specific test
chart with the different combinations. It is costly to go to press
with color fingerprint charts, making plates, and spending time
testing rather than earning money on a job. GMG OpenColor
resolves this complex packaging problem and provides better
results, with less information. With OpenColor, users do not have
to print combinations of overprints. They can print the single color
patches – e.g. color control strips – and combine the color and
substrate properties in the software. Measurements are centrally
saved and categorized according to print variables. This lets
operators build an archive of measurements and combine existing
measurements to new profiles, whenever a new combination of
inks must be profiled.
“Our entire team is honored
to receive such important
recognition. With GMG
OpenColor we wanted to take
a big step to help customers
increase production efficiencies,
and improve color accuracy
and predictability in the supply
chain. We are working with many
prepress houses and converters
worldwide, to help them
implement GMG OpenColor.
They understand that OpenColor
can reduce time to market, save
the cost of creating too many
press fingerprints, and reduce
lengthy makereadies. Most
important, it improves the color
communication and approval
process between all supply
chain partners, and verifies color
expectations. They appreciate
that.”
Victor Asseiceiro, Director,
Business Unit Packaging, GMG
OpenColor
case studies
don’t get more
convincing
than this:
CSW Inc.,
New York
What CSW are
all about
CSW, Inc. provides integrated packaging services for consumer product
companies (CPCs). This includes brand support, brand visualization,
creative services, image engineering, flexographic printing plates, steel
rule cutting dies, and workflow coordination. Our award-winning
prepress team has been a recognized leader in color management since
1994. We ensure a common ‘look’ across our customers’ marketing
efforts, assuring buying confidence.
On spot colors
in packaging
When you consider the process of overprinting spots, which creates an
unknown mix color, we would say that color reproduction in packaging
is still pretty challenging. Many times we are also working with custommixed inks, beyond what Pantone or other ink suppliers offer. The ability
to predict the behavior of overprints and the interaction of these inks is
critical to managing color. Until about a year ago, we were still looking
for a better way to represent spot color interactions with an inkjet
proofing device. We wanted a better method of predicting multi-spot
color overprints prior to seeing the result on press.
GMG OpenColor
tested
What sold us on OpenColor was the first demo we had with GMG.
We presented them with one of our most challenging separations to
proof. Within minutes, OpenColor provided a proof with the same color
fidelity as one that we had spent hours tweaking. Their live demo was
done faster – and more accurately – than anything we had done in the
past. It convinced us to work with OpenColor.
When GMG said we would only need a couple months to implement this
for full scale production use, we laughed. However, the implementation
of OpenColor was incredibly easy. Despite the newness of the technology,
we were able to run, debug, profile, reprofile and produce successful
commercial jobs very quickly.
Instant success
We like OpenColor’s speed and accuracy. It is robust, based on spectral
data, and really stunning when it comes to ease of use. OpenColor
can use partial targets to confirm previous profiles and build upon
them to create new profiles on the fly. Many profile creators need data
from lots of targets, but it can be difficult to read them all within one
package development cycle. If we are working with a job that needs
to be completed quickly, OpenColor will allow us to read just some
of the data, and will still deliver accurate color. When the client signs
on the dotted line of the proof, we can deliver it to the press with the
confidence that it will be reproduced accurately and repeatably.
What CSW like
about OpenColor
It would be fair to say that OpenColor has cut our color management
and proofing time in half. Printers are not incurring the expense of
makeready and press time for running 800 feet/minute for test charts. We
are also seeing cost savings in the reduction of the consumables needed
to print – and reprint – multiple overprint iterations on our proofing
devices. Nor is our proofer tied up with these iterations and keeping
other jobs waiting in the queue. It is likely that OpenColor has saved us
from investing in another printer.
What OpenColor
has done for their
business
Marek M. Skrzynski
Director of Graphics, R&D
CSW, Inc.
“In my opinion, OpenColor is one of
the first breakthroughs in color
management in the last ten years.
It is a game changer”
GMG ProductionSuite
Released just two years ago, GMG’s ground-breaking
wide format software, ProductionSuite, is proving
adaptable enough to make a difference wherever
and however wide format printing takes place.
trueColors speaks to GMG offices in America, France
and China to find out who uses it, and why.
[read more >]
Type of customer:
They span industries, markets and size.
We have a customer focusing on mass
production of canvases. We have a customer
producing mainly car wraps and other decal
work. Others are more into large volume of
banners, billboards. Other are specialized
in corrugated or retail market, with a strong
emphasis on structural designs.
What problems do your customers face?
Efficiency problems: With a mix of creative
applications and various RIP’s, often from
different vendors, they often find themselves
with a difficult and unreliable workflow.
Color matching issues: Most of our customers
wanted an easier, more reliable way of
getting consistent, good colors. The process of
changing the file in order to match previously
printed material, or get the color approved by
the end customer is tedious, time consuming,
error prone and extremely difficult to
reproduce when having to reprint a job a
month from now.
Adding new machinery: A couple of
our customers started looking at GMG
ProductionSuite when they were buying
new equipment: printers and/or cutters. In
some instances they were buying over 5
extra machines, also adding die cutting. They
needed a powerful, complete system to drive
all that, while keeping it simple at the same
time and without hiring additional staff.
What they are getting from ProductionSuite?
• Standardize their prepress work. Jobs can be prepared much faster with time savings
of 50% and more. It also means that the whole process is much more predictable and consistent.
• Speed up the complete process from file to finished product
• Reduce training needs and support to a minimum
• The use of a simplified, yet complete and powerful workflow also reduced the stress inside the company, very much appreciated by all the employees.
• Better image quality, predictable colors, neutral greys.
Quick turnaround without compromises on
quality
GMG ProductionSuite has allowed our
customers to speed up their complete
prepress and printing process and increase
their quality output. The quality output is
consistent time after time, print after print.
The future
Our customers that implemented multiple
machines at the same time, sometimes even 7
new printers, testify that they could not have
done this without GMG ProductionSuite.
The simplicity of the system and the
standardization of color during prepress
procedures make such implemetations easy.
Type of customer:
Our ProductionSuite users work with large
format printers among a whole range of other
different printers and cutter devices.
How does ProductionSuite help?
With our software they have the possibility to
drive all of them. For example our customer
MignoGraphie is pleased to be able to use the
same solution to drive his FB 7600 and all his
other printers. Handling only one interface
to drive all their printers and cutting device
is a blessing for them. It helps them a lot if
they compare with the time when they used
different softwares from different suppliers
and had to wait for responses…not to
mention the knowledge required for all these
tools, so now they are saving training time
and do not depend on the only colleague
that is specialized on a product. They can
also share their knowledge and experience
between them. They don’t feel as dependent
as they were before from the editors. They
also loved the fact that the Editor tool was
also included and allowed them to do some
last-minute changes.
Color management issues
What’s more: they had been looking for a
solution to their color management issues and
they had quite a lot! Now they know they can
get the exact same result whatever the printer
and its format and it is repeatable with always
the same accuracy. Another very interesting
feedback we had after testing ProductionSuite
came from a user that had been working
for a long time with a competitor. They had
grown used to spending hours of manual
adjustment once the profile was generated
to get a result that would be close to their
expectations. They tried ProductionSuite and
were impressed when getting this very result
right after the profile had been created and
without manual intervention!
Ink saving tool
Additionally, our users unanimously see the
benefits from our integrated EcoSave tool.
Ink consumption is drastically reduced and
so are the costs. Yet, the quality of the result
is higher. It is also one aspect that helps us
with the dealers who always want to compare
with the big competitor that has been ruling
over the French market: EcoSave is part of
the solution, not an extra module. It’s a sales
argument that the decision maker can easily
understand, whether he is technical or not.
Flexibility
They also praise the flexibility and
adaptability of our product that really allows
them to implement the software on any
computer. The operators like having the
software running where they need it instead
of running from one place to the other. And
again, they have, right on their desk, access to
the color management tool, the editor and the
printer and cutter drivers all at once.
Type of customer:
There is a growing large format sector –
especially in Hong Kong. They range from
specialist singage companies to general
graphics suppliers.
What kind of problems do your customers
have?
Usually in the production line with color
matching of the clients proof – they often
need to generate the proof more then 5 times
in order to match the customer proof with
the specific printer. And because the printout
color is way different from what the prepress
guy saw on the monitor, they sometimes need
to guess the color! Once they get the proof
back from the client they have to wait for that
specific printer to become available.
As we see the LFP market growing in Hong
Kong, production schedules are getting very
tight. Due to the booking for advertisements
and new product launchs in the region, time
is always limited.
Other advantages:
• With the second printout they are able to match the customer proof.
• Now they are doing monitor calibration with the same ISO target, and GMG SmartProfiler is doing the recalibration with all the printers.
• Once they get the approval back from customer, they can just place the job with any printer that is available.
• Tiling with ProductionSuite Editor is much easier and efficient.
• Fast generation of horizontal and vertical with overlapping.
• Send a single file size to RIP, and print at the same time. They now complete the job in 2 instead of 4 hours.
• FM screening helps them reduce banding. Now they just clean the printhead every 5 or 10 jobs instead of after every job.
One ProductionSuite customer we have is
doing more on the cosmetic product side –
these sectors are really particular about color
and banding.
The future
All these ProductionSuite features are really
making their job easier, and solving all the
problems they have faced for the last 10
years. With productivity speed up more then
30%, they gain more than 30% business
income for the company.
How is ProductionSuite helping them ?
Our customers have seen the speed of their
production increase by more then 30%, and
they have significantly more flexible.
They are glad to have GMG ProductionSuite
in their platform, and they are looking
forward to the introduction of CoZone, which
they believe will improve their workflow.
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Thirteen GMG
technicians pass the
Fogra digital print
standard test.
GMG has shown its commitment to the digital print
industries with proactive support of Fogra Process
Standard Digital (PSD), with thirteen members of the
global GMG Professional Services Team completing
the internationally recognised certification DPE, Digital
Print Expert of Fogra e.V. (Graphic Technology Research
Association). Achieving this certification is part of
GMG’s continued commitment in addressing the issues
of process stability and output consistency within all
applications of digital print production. This expertise
complements GMG’s ongoing mission of offering the
best possible applications and services to the digital,
large-format and grand-format print markets and
allows GMG to offer an extended range of services and
customer training programmes worldwide.
All certified members of GMG’s Professional Service
team are authorised to prepare and conduct Process
Standard Digital (PSD) audits with their customers.
“GMG has long held the belief that an industriallyorientated, standardised process for digital print
production is a crucial component for the continued
growth of all areas of digital print production,” says
Volker Wechselberger, Operations Director at GMG.
“GMG ProductionSuite, for example, produces results
complying with the Fogra PSD standard within a single
solution: File preparation including file preflight as well
as colour management and job submission, according
to the PSD handbook, is easily performed with just
a few mouse clicks. The tight interface between the
prepress application Editor and the RIP reduces errors
and speeds up the entire process in a standardized way.
For a digital print services provider, attaining Fogra
PSD certification delivers the benefits of a faster, more
cost-effective production workflow, a higher and more
consistent quality of output, and reduced costs and waste.”
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Can 12 large
format digital
printers operate
off one driver?
GMG ProductionSuite drives
InnoMark Inc.’s many different models
and brands of wide format printers from
one screen. It’s a solution that’s putting
the company in the driving seat.
I
nnoMark Communications is a premier provider
of innovative visual merchandising solutions.
They offer a unique and completely integrated
approach to creative design, production,
fulfillment, and distribution of merchandising
projects. The company operates from a 32,000 sq.
ft. facility with state-of-the art digital equipment,
as well as an experienced team of digital printing
experts. “InnoMark is a full service corporation
that includes everything from concept and design
through fulfillment. Processes include digital,
offset, litho, flexo, screen, we are also able to do
die cutting. Everything on the job from inception
to completion…” explains Mark Long, Digital
Manager at InnoMark.
Equipment
Their digital printing equipment includes the latest
large format printing equipment from HP such as
three HP FB 7600 digital presses, a HP Scitex XP
5500 grand format printer which produces flexible
material printing up to 196” wide, two HP Scitex
FB 700 flatbed printers which provide unrivaled
versatility for short run graphic applications, and
the HP LX 850 latex printer which represents the
latest in sustainable ink technology. Additional
digital equipment includes HP indigo 5500,
Kodak Nexpress 2500, two Inca UV flatbeds and
a Roland NexPress print and cut solvent printer.
All of these machines are driven through the
GMG ProductionSuite workflow software, which
guarantees the best possible output on each
machine, matching colors over the different
machines and substrates. Next to that it also
provides a standardized prepress environment
which ensures fast and reliable turnaround times
in prepress.
GMG ProductionSuite has played an essential
role in the tremendous growth that InnoMark’s
digital department has seen. “At InnoMark
GMG ProductionSuite has been instrumental in
our success in the digital division.” says Long.
GMG ProductionSuite has helped them keep
turnaround times short, yet achieving above
standard quality and consistency in the products
they make. The powerful prepress tools of the
Editor and the unified RIP engine has meant a
reduction of more than 50% of time spent in
prepress and RIP.
Another important fact is that InnoMark uses
GMG ColorProof to create a standards compliant
proof of every job that goes through prepress.
This proof then accompanies the job through the
various steps of the process, whether it is a job
printed digital, offset or even flexo. “At InnoMark
proofing is an important part of our process.
We’re dedicated to delivering the highest possible
quality to our clients. Therefore, we use GMG
ColorProof. We make proofs that we match to all
of our digital equipment,” emphasizes Long.
Recently InnoMark also implemented GMG
ColorServer with InkOptimizer for their litho
work. This allows them to print to the standards
even easier, while saving ink and reduce press
make-ready time, at the same time.
Using the various GMG color management
software means that InnoMark can deliver the
highest quality products, with consistent quality
and with the shortest turnaround times. Long
comments: “InnoMark handles large campaigns
that require us to use multiple forms of output
including screen, litho, and/or digital. What we
have to do as far as color management goes is
ensure that all these different types of output
wind up looking the same in the end so that the
customer has a consistent look across their store,
regardless of how the product is produced. And
that’s what InnoMark is capable of, thanks to the
GMG solutions.”
“At InnoMark GMG
ProductionSuite has been
instrumental in our success
in the digital division.”
Mark Long, Digital Manager at InnoMark.
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Latest features:
• Spotcolor Optimization Wizard.
• Spot Color Verification.
• Automated remote proofing.
• Quick access to recently used proof standards and calibrations.
• Drag and drop jobs between printers.
• Easier maintenance and configuration.
• Seamless integration with ProofControl 2.0
Latest features:
• DotProof files print faster with better
memory usage.
• Automatically detects the ink order from Esko files for efficient
configuration.
• Plus all the advantages of ColorProof.
Latest features:
• Direct output to digital printers.
• Brighter spot colors for digital printing.
• Paper Adaption Tool.
• New profile set Direct output to digital printers.
• Brighter spot colors for digital printing.
• New profile set.
Latest features:
• Smooth integration with
ColorProof – jobs are shown in ProofControl and can be selected
easily. ProofControl sets all settings (strip type, print standard) correctly
• Support of spot color strips. Target values of spot colors are sub-
mitted from ColorProof
• Support of OpenColor strips.
• Easy generation of target values from MX-profiles.
• User Interface in the look
of ColorProof.
Latest features:
• New Layout application for easy and fast job composing incl, true shape nesting, cutting and double sided printing tools.
• Interior decoration option Incl. color ways and step and repeat.
• Easy and fast profile creation due to new SmartProfiler V2.
• GMG device Link creation on the fly.
• Full automated workflow capabilities incl. XML
interface for fast workflow integration.
Latest features:
• Efficient and simple
calculation of savings.
• Easy-to-create
hotfolders.
• Plus all the advatages of ColorServer 4.8
Latest features:
• Consistent quality throughout all images in source database.
• Once-only color correction – regardless of the ultimate output standard.
• Fewer and shorter production cycles
through process automation.
• Direct output to any media standard, without further file alterations.
• Shorter print makeready times, and consistent print quality.
• Efficient use of resources
and considerable cost savings.
BackPage Quiz
answers top
to bottom:
Lenin
Malcolm X
Shakespeare
VanGogh
John Glenn
Axel Rose
Darwin
Existing features:
• Optimal simulation of substrates.
• Exact simulation of spot colors.
• Increased production reliability.
• Higher productivity
cutting costs, e.g. no imperfect prints, less paper waste.
Feature to enhance the
workflow integration
Color managed PDF files
can be printed now
directly into a Windows
printer what helps to
integrate Digital and LFP
output devices better into
ColorServer.
Improved Image
compression
All flattened images can
be treated with either ZIP
or JPEG compression,
considerably reducing
file size.
General Features:
• Production reliability through quality assurance
• Simple operation and rapid evaluation
• Support of international industry standards
• Automatic evaluation and documentation
• Flexibility due to customized quality
criteria
Some existing features:
• Standardized and optimized prepress
workflow for up to 50% time savings.
• Intuitive tools for preparing production
jobs in seconds.
• Extensive options for last-minute corrections in PDF documents – image and text.
• Integrated data preflighting.
GMG InkOptimizer
with G-Turbo
Reduce ink usage by up
to 47% compared to
the original file which
is an increased CMY
reduction of around
17% over previous
strong ink optimization.
This extreme reduction
of ink also improves
drying time, reduces rub
off as well as chemicals
that are associated with
the solvent inks and pays
for itself quickly.
Barry Singelton, Marketing Executive GMG UK
Ginger
Ginger hair facts:
• Approximately 1-2% of humans, or about two in 100 people in the world,
have red hair.
• It is the most rare hair color in humans.
• People with red hair have twice the risk of developing Parkinson’s Disease.
• There is a common perception that redheads could become extinct in 100 years.
• Bees are thought to sting redheads
more than others.
The science of Ginger.
Ginger hair is a mutation of the
MC1R gene on chromosome 16. The
mutation blocks the production of
eumelanin (dark brown and black
pigment), which causes a buildup
of the phaeomelanin
(red and blond pigments).
The Devil and Ginger
Baker.
Ginger Baker was the
legendary drummer of
Creme and Blend Faith.
Notirious for his outrage
behave and heroin
additiction, he was (and
still is) wildly regarded as
the best drummer that ever lived. He
once moved with his fortune to Nigeria
to track down new African drumming
beats and his idol, Fela Kuti, only to
be forced out by the military. A new
documentary about him – The Devil and
Ginger Baker – is to be released soon.
He now lives in the only country that
would toterate his antics: South Africa.
You have to love
tradition.
English and Scottish tradition says that
at New Year, your first caller will bring
you luck depending on their hair color.
Brunettes bring the best luck. Blondes
bring no luck. A widower brings bad
luck. And a redhead brings the worst
luck. This custom was so strongly
practiced at one time that some homes
would hire first callers.
http://www.purgatory.net
Can you name these famous ginger people? Answers on page 18
the
back
page
color
the backpage interview
What is your favorite color? Orange – it's the color of my hair and it defines
who I am as a person, part of the global ginger community.
What color best describes your personality? Orange again because it's bright,
arresting and attractive.
What books are you reading right now? Manuscripts Found in Accra by Paulo
Coelho and The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins. Just a bit of light bedtime
reading.
Tell us something about you that will shock and amaze? Medically, at 2m tall, I am
a giant, therefore very few people were aware that my hairline is receding.
When you’re not working what do you do? I love to read and am learning to
play the acoustic guitar. In the summer, I play league cricket for North Leeds.
Your dream dinner guests? Keith Richards to lay down some riffs and Ian
Botham (legendary English cricketer and bon viveur) because he's my hero.
Who would play you in a movie about yourself? Obviously Brad Pitt, but if he
wasn't available, Eddie Izzard.
If you could work for GMG in another country, which would it be? The U.S of A,
primarily because of the chance to see how business is done in the States, but
also to check out the birthplaces of most of my favourite music
genres, from rock’n’roll to disco, house and techno.
What’s your favourite GMG product and why? GMG CoZone
because at my height people say my head is in the clouds,
so it feels natural to become a fan of a cloud dwelling
software solution. ColorServer seems like magic to me.
If you weren’t at GMG what would you want to be? Writing
feature articles on cricket, music, culture and touring the
world. And making music documentarys.
What was the last movie that made you cry? The Hangover 2. A
bro-mantic story always puts a lump in my throat.
What do you like to do once in a blue moon? Colonic
irrigation.
What or who makes you green with envy? Nothing
really, I tend to be impressed by successful
people rather than envious.
Red or white wine? Red, but not too much
because it can end in tears and a furry tongue.
What’s the last white lie you told? I benefitted
from appealing for a caught behind on the
cricket field when I knew the batter hadn't
hit the ball. This may not make sense to
many GMG colleagues or clients.
The Stones’ Brown Sugar or Beatles Yellow
Submarine? Stones.