With 26 years of varied industry experience Berni Gilmore set up Prime Colour Proofing in 2002 to provide an accurate alternative to digital proofing.

Berni started his career in 1976 serving a traditional 4 year apprenticeship at Litho Pre Print. Both work and college based the apprenticeship gave him a good grounding in all aspects of repro and printing.

Moving to Lautrecs in 1981 Berni gained experience in proofing limited edition fine art prints as well as many kinds of greeting cards.
In 1982 he moved to Lund Humphries and gained further valuable experience of running 5 & 6 colour Heidelberg presses, becoming their Quality Control Manager tasked with implementing BS5750.

Another move in 1994 to BPC Digital Labels, responsible for the running of the planning, platemaking and proofing departments, Berni also gained experience of letterpress and flexo.

Finally in 1998 Berni moved to Leebank Proofers. Specialising in fingerprinting presses to establish density and dot gain parameters to ensure proofs accurately matched the finished product on any stock inc. tin, plastic, paper and board.