Color Management
Auto-disable not found spot colours
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
How PrintFactory handles spot colors in jobs Jobs may contain spot colors. If so, PrintFactory will check the profiles and libraries for these colors in a given sequence. If the spot color cannot be found, an error will be generated. This is how ...
Certifying Jobs
Certifying jobs Certifying jobs means that you check whether the proof’s colors are up to ISO or custom standards. The process goes as follows: You print a job with a Ugra/Fogra, ISO, IDEAlliance or PrintFactory control strip. You measure the values ...
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: Further rendering intents Black generation Profile size, color boosting and viewing conditions Optical Brightener compensation Purify primary and secondary colours To ...
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 colour separations, is the plate that holds the detail in the image. In CMYK this is usually done with black ink. In the modern colour-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 ...