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Color Control Network is a service created by a team of highly experienced print medium practitioners with in-depth knowledge of both the art and science of 4/C process lithography. Combined, the principals offer over 100 years of commercial print industry experience and decades of software engineering for graphics and publishing applications. They have faced the same challenges as other 4/C process offset practitioners to produce high-density color print materials for ad agencies, in-house agencies, publishers and other clients requiring high-impact visual communications. CCN's principals recognized that to master high-density print work required tools to control a greater number of variable and interdependent print parameters beyond the scope of conventional and traditional printing practices.
Henry Martinez, Chief Executive Officer of Color Control Network (CCN) and the inventor of the CCN technology, is a noted authority on commercial color printing who has been respected in the industry for more than 45 years.
Henry began his career in the commercial printing business in 1961 as a general industry apprentice in color separation and offset printing. More than working to produce jobs, studying all aspects of printing has been a part of his every day at work. Henry became part owner of Graphic Arts Services Inc. in Corpus Christi, Texas in 1968. Moving to Dallas in 1972, Henry founded and became majority owner of Martinez Graphic Arts Inc., which was sold in 1984 to Beatrice Foods Co. and merged with a subsidiary of BFC, Techtron. Henry became General Manager of the Martinez & Rutter/Techtron Dallas operation after the successful sale of his company. In 1991 Henry founded MGI Studio, a prepress services company which has also served as the incubator for CCN. A lifetime of being in the prepress segment of the industry has continuously positioned Henry between the creative content producers and the commercial printers. The opportunity to interact with both produced an intimate understanding of their concerns and needs, and thus the genesis of CCN. Based on this close-at-hand understanding, in 1996 Henry embarked on a lifetime project to resolve the two most pressing obstacles to quality that faced the industry -- printing with a small-gamut CMYK four-color format and poor predictability on press. Henry created and patented CCN as the first new way to make accurate color richer and more vivid within the confines of the traditional CMYK process, using the 4/C presses commercial printers already have. Henry has been granted two patents for his work on CCN, System Admixture in 2004 and Tonal Reproduction in 2006. In October of 2006, Henry launched the company that is changing the commercial printing industry by making colors and images better than they've ever been: Color Control Network.
John Jeffus, Chief Technology Officer, joined CCN during 2004 and became the system architect who designed CCN's delivery system described herein. Currently, John divides his time between shepherding the technical aspects of CCN's systems and business development. John began his software engineering career 20 years ago as a research scientist at Atlantic Richfield Oil and Gas Companies ("ARCO") R&D group in Plano, Texas. During his tenure at ARCO John was involved in fundamental research in the application of artificial intelligence techniques used for oil and gas exploration. In 1991 John founded and became majority owner of Raindrop Software Corp. ("RDS") in Richardson, Texas. As President and CEO of RDS, John created the companies' business plan, recruited investors, and secured first and second-round funding. RDS, an engineering services firm, created software solutions for a wide variety of businesses. In 1995, Outlook Software Corp. purchased RDS, where John remained as President and CEO. After leaving Outlook Software Corp., John served as a consultant for companies such as Circuit City, Nissan, Wal-Mart, and Brierley & Partners designing enterprise software applications.
John graduated from the University of Texas at Dallas with a B.S. in both Mathematics and Computer Science.
David Culotta, Vice President of Finance and Administration, and Vice President of Public Relations for Color Control Network, has been in financial services for more than 18 years. He joined Color Control Network in 2002.
David began his career with FirstUSA Bank in Wilmington, DE. He was hired soon after graduating from college. Beginning in an entry-level customer service position, he was working as a liaison between the Customer Service and the Marketing departments when he departed FirstUSA.
In 1993 he accepted a position with JP Morgan. His new position concentrated on coordinating the information exchange efforts of the department that was in charge of the main client data systems with all other departments of JP Morgan globally. The position gave him wide exposure to the inner workings of the many different aspects of large investment firms. It eventually piqued his interest toward learning more about the investment side of the business.
In 1999 David earned the Series 6, Series 7, and Series 66 NASD license designations. Soon after, he became a financial advisor with Edward Jones Investments.
David received a Bachelors Degree from Texas Tech University.
Don Ashe, Director of Customer Support for Color Control Network, has worn many hats since joining the company in February 2003. During his first two years at CCN, Don wrote source code in development of an extraordinarily robust software engine described in one of CCN's pending patents "System and Method for Color Image Transformation". Since then Don divides his time between supporting CCN's growing customer base and developing on and off site training for customers and resellers. Don combines his in-depth knowledge of CCN's technology with his easy going nature to make learning and support a pleasant experience.
Since 1995, Don has consulted in the arena of graphic communications. He has worked to provide solutions to prominent printing and publishing companies such as Hallmark Cards, Taylor Publishing, and Freisens Yearbooks, as well as to niche business entities such as Serichrome, Wellness Works, E-spec, and FredMiranda.com. He has written source code for software spanning major elements of color science such as image processing, color management, workflow automation, color separation, and proofing. His coding expertise includes augmenting functionality in Photoshop, Illustrator, Quark, and Indesign. His titles have ranged from Senior Scientist at Piranha, Inc., a Dallas based image and video compression company to Customer Support at Alcatel Telecom in Richardson, TX.
Don also takes special pride in having served his country as a U.S. Navy Submariner.
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