HEXACHROME colorsep

[ar17]

i am looking of doing hexachrome printing for offset printing; mainly 5 and 6 color separations. i hope to get suggestion what module or product to look into as i have been totally doing prepress works using cmyk and spotcolor(solid) for quite some time... i have esko workflow but hope to do the colorsep as plug-in to photoshop only. or any suggestion will be look into. thanks

[gordo]

I don't know if the product is still being sold, but Visu CoCo was such a plug-in. Start your search here:
Aurelon Acquires Visu Technologies and Establishes New Worldwide Color Imaging Company. - Free Online Library

best, gordo

[ar17]

I don't know if the product is still being sold, but Visu CoCo was such a plug-in. Start your search here:
Aurelon Acquires Visu Technologies and Establishes New Worldwide Color Imaging Company. - Free Online Library

best, gordo

thanks Sir

[esmith214]

Best contact for Isis plugin is Specialcolor - Worldwide distributors and implementers of color separation and color correction tools

[tmiller_iluvprinting]

If you have a Hexachrome profile you can do the separations in Photoshop CS5, without a plugin.
Regards,
Todd

[rich apollo]

If you have a Hexachrome profile you can do the separations in Photoshop CS5, without a plugin.
Regards,
Todd

yeah, but you can't use the resulting file in any other Adobe app.

[gordo]

Can it be saved as a DCS?
Or can each channel be brought into a page layout app, stacked and set to overprint?

best, gordo

[Hugo]

i am looking of doing hexachrome printing for offset printing; mainly 5 and 6 color separations. i hope to get suggestion what module or product to look into as i have been totally doing prepress works using cmyk and spotcolor(solid) for quite some time... i have esko workflow but hope to do the colorsep as plug-in to photoshop only. or any suggestion will be look into. thanks

X-Rite has the Multicolor Plugin for Photoshop, it will convert images from RGB to Hexachrome or any other multicolor (3-9color) colorspaces.
You can then save the images as EPS and place in Adobe apps.

Conversion is based on Multicolor ICC profiles. Ideally you have multicolor press profiles of the press to produce the separations.
You can then use these same multicolor press profiles for proofing one bit halftone files from your platesetter rip.
For that you would use a proofing software that supports multicolor separations such as AbsoluteProof. Digital Proofing Resolved | Absolute Proof

If your inkjet printer has wide enough gamut (such as Epson 7900 CMYKOG) you will get a reliable proof for this process.

Esko also has the Ink-Wizard software for multicolor separations.

Hope this helps
Hugo Kristinsson

[tmiller_iluvprinting]

You can place in ID if you save as a DCS2, single file with color composite. Normally, I will use my Hexachrome profile in PS to create the #5 & #6 printer and just treat them as spot colors by adding them to a normal 4/C separation. It's a little easier to work with and edit, and proof. The proofs normally are out the window when we go to press anyway because we are looking for circus color, and the proof is not the expectation. As of late I have been steering our customers towards TOYO's Kaleido Ink Set. A larger color gamut with 4 highly pigmented inks that perform extremely well. I haven't seen a Hexachrome job in about 2 years.
Regards,
Todd

[Stephen Marsh]

Back in the day, PageMaker shipped with a Hexachrome ICC profile and one could print to separations using this profile direct from PageMaker. The separation results were not as good as a proper Hexachrome tool, however the concept worked.

Stephen Marsh