Color Management
Using Neon/Fluor inks in PrintFactory
Overview of Neon/Fluorescent Ink Handling By default, PrintFactory’s gamut builder in VISU primarily utilizes Cyan, Magenta, and Yellow ink channels, guided by standard naming conventions. Neon Yellow/Magenta or other fluorescent inks are not ...
Auto-disable not found spot colors
What For packaging proofs the technical channels like die-lines, varnish etc must be disabled (not-show, not-print) automatically. Only leaving process and recognised spot colors enabled. Available from V6.7.0 onwards Where to find 1. Editor: ...
Standardized LFP Printing
Introduction This document aims to clarify the difference between “Regular” printing in the LFP world with the newer concept of “Standardized” printing. Both concepts will be explained, as concept, but also how to actually do it in PrintFactory. ...
Spot Color Handling
Understanding Spot Color Handling in PrintFactory PrintFactory offers advanced spot color handling to ensure vibrant, accurate results that adapt to specific ink and media combinations. This article explains how PrintFactory manages spot colors, ...
Certification
Certifying Jobs in PrintFactory Certifying jobs in PrintFactory ensures that printed colors meet specific standards, whether proofing industry standards or a printer's calibrated baseline (commonly referred to as the Golden State). Certification ...
Standardized LFP Printing
Introduction This document aims to clarify the difference between “Regular” printing in the LFP world with the newer concept of “Standardized” printing. Both concepts will be explained, as concept, but also how to actually do it in PrintFactory. ...
Clean Spot Colors
As well as being able to ‘tune’ a spot or named color, these colors can now be further ‘cleaned’ close to 0% noise removal to a maximum close to 100% cleanliness. From Calibrator a Spot Color can be selected and be independently adjusted within the ...
Custom VISU variants
This document explains all options available to amend a color profile variant: To start, please create a custom VISU variant by selecting + This will show up all amendments possible to the profile: Amend the Name to a unique name to reflect the ...
VISU profiling variants
This document explains the different profile variances or color mapping for VISU as well as all advanced tools to adjust profiles to suit customer requirements. e.g. Chroma boosting, purify colors,… Printer Media Mode variants The PMM variants offer ...
Recalibration interval
The recalibration interval allows the company to enforce a strict printer recalibration policy on the production floor. If the printer has not been calibrated within the specified time, the jobs in the RIP will no longer be processed. When the ...
Separation and Black generation
The K in CMYK stands for “Key”, NOT black as many might have you believe. The Key plate, in traditional color separations, is the plate that holds the detail in the image. In CMYK this is usually done with black ink. In the modern color-managed ...
Spot color black generation options
VISU profiles allow very detailed control on how spot colors are calculated as they are calculated independently from the profile. The following settings can be defined using the options button in the lower right corner of the Spot Color list in ...