Established in 1985, CGS Publishing Technologies International GmbH, Hainburg, Germany, is a world leader in digital proofing, color management,  and production workflows for the professional graphics arts market. Headquartered near Frankfurt, CGS also has operations in the United States, Japan and many other countries, as well as sales and support partners throughout the world.

History

When CGS was founded in 1985, the production of magazine and catalog pages was still a manual and time-consuming process. This sparked the original business idea: The development of a page assembly system (Digi-Design) for designing magazine and catalogue pages directly on a computer. Competing with other high-end systems from Crosfield, Hell and Scitex, the original CGS system combined high-end image manipulation and page layout on Digital Equipment Corporation's powerful VAX VMS workstations. In 1991, when CGS began to connect Dainippon Screen's scanners and recorders, CGS also introduced its standalone CEPS environment under the name ORIS (Open Reproduction on Industry Standard.) Originally running on DEC Alpha workstations, ORIS was introduced for Windows in 1997. Following the trend to a manufacturer-independent page description language, a RIP was added, allowing opening and editing any PostScript page. So was functionality to automate the workflow in pre-press, color management and proofing. In the late 1990s, the product line comprised ORIS Page (layout and design), ORIS Works (workflow) and ORIS Color Tuner (proofing). During that time, it was widely adopted among gravure and other large printing operations, as well as by catalog and magazine publishers.

Industry Partners

The aim of CGS is the development of powerful proof and workflow solutions. For this, CGS has long-time development partnerships with companies like Canon, Epson, Hewlett Packard and Xerox. This guarantees that ORIS systems always benefit the most from the current developments in digital printing devices. Moreover, the company cooperates with the leading manufacturers of spectral measurement technology like X-Rite, integrating these devices into the ORIS products for color measurement and analysis. In the area of proofing media, CGS entered very early
R & D joint-ventures with selected manufacturers worldwide. Within this cooperation, innovative proofing media are being developed exclusively for CGS. These media meet even the most demanding requirements for proofing in magazine, commercial and packaging printing.