The Print Refinery

How The Print Refinery doubled their volumes and revenue by automating colour correction with Perfectly Clear

As an IPI board member, TK Broecker, owner of The Print Refinery, spends as much time helping other professional print labs modernize their operations as he does running his own. When it came time to solve his own lab’s biggest bottleneck — keeping colour correction consistent and processing results quickly across two Kentucky locations — he turned to Perfectly Clear’s QuickServer solution and automatic photo correction technology.

“Before Perfectly Clear, our manual editing process was eating up hours our editors could have spent on strategy and growth. Trying to get consistent correction results depending on lighting, change in the monitor, or the editor’s day is difficult,” Broecker said. “We needed something that could scale with us, at a price and reliability we could count on.”

To help prevent unpredictable costs, the Perfectly Clear team collaborated with TK on a solution: QuickServer. Since implementing it, The Print Refinery has been able to apply consistent, high-quality corrections across both sites automatically, helping editors eliminate hours of repetitive manual work.

“We were initially deployed on their legacy solution. When we were ready for more automation and centralized processing, the Perfectly Clear team worked with us to ensure the transition was smooth as we migrated to QuickServer,” Broecker said.

The impact The Print Refinery saw when deploying Perfectly Clear:

• Over 50% reduction in time spent per image on manual color correction
• 4,000 unique images processed per week, approximately doubling their volumes with Perfectly Clear
• 4 hours saved per week for their main editor, redirected to business strategy

“The time savings and consistency in the edits have been immense for the editing team. Perfectly Clear’s diverse suite of technologies will help print labs scale faster in the long run,” Broecker said.

Within the IPI community, TK has long advocated for adopting automation. And The Print Refinery’s experience shows what’s possible: reliable quality at scale, without adding headcount or complexity.

For a limited time, IPI members receive exclusive pricing on QuickServer. Contact Sales for details.