Hi I was wondering If anyone here can give me some advise ? I have been pushing for the company I work for to adopt a ink Optimizer/GCR solution as a method for reducing make ready time and keeping colour consistent over the length of the press run, the ink savings are a nice benefit but the increase in production is what I am really interested in.
We are GRACoL G7 certified for proofing, and in the press room too, and have already realized significant gains in production by having these two areas running to GRACoL standard.
Does anyone have any experience with Kodak's Ink Optimizer or Alwan's Ink Optimizer software? What do you think of them, I am primarily concerned with colour fidelity, is the colour from the original the same as after GCR is applied ?
We do have some tools at work for building ICC's and I created one from some GRACoL data we have. I set the ICC up to apply GCR and plugged this into our Prinegy 5 workflow, the end results were a close match to our original colour before applying GCR although there are a couple of areas that this workflow falls short, that being that the ICC tends to re-separate all colours and will put a little black in almost everthing, making these files actually more difficult to print instead of easier (not my intention).
Outside of this particular problem I am pleased with the result, does any one know of an ICC editor that can direct the ICC not to re-seperate colours that are made up of 2 or fewer colourants, so that it only applies GCR to where there is actually a grey component?
Thanks very much
We are GRACoL G7 certified for proofing, and in the press room too, and have already realized significant gains in production by having these two areas running to GRACoL standard.
Does anyone have any experience with Kodak's Ink Optimizer or Alwan's Ink Optimizer software? What do you think of them, I am primarily concerned with colour fidelity, is the colour from the original the same as after GCR is applied ?
We do have some tools at work for building ICC's and I created one from some GRACoL data we have. I set the ICC up to apply GCR and plugged this into our Prinegy 5 workflow, the end results were a close match to our original colour before applying GCR although there are a couple of areas that this workflow falls short, that being that the ICC tends to re-separate all colours and will put a little black in almost everthing, making these files actually more difficult to print instead of easier (not my intention).
Outside of this particular problem I am pleased with the result, does any one know of an ICC editor that can direct the ICC not to re-seperate colours that are made up of 2 or fewer colourants, so that it only applies GCR to where there is actually a grey component?
Thanks very much