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Color fidelity for the printed product
Printopen provides printing and reproduction shops with a
color management tool that allows them to appropriately
communicate color information throughout the entire
prepress and printing processes, from the proof to the
printed product. Printopen is used to create ICC profiles
for color output devices that contain color-relevant
information on the device. The ICC profiles describe the
color space of output devices such as printing presses,
color printers, color copiers and proofers, thus
establishing the basis for a consistent color management
workflow. In a standardized workflow where the appropriate
profiles are available, documents can be printed on
different output devices with a result that can be
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Basis for the workflow color
management
Scanopen, Viewopen and Printopen as ICC profile generation
tools form the basis for color management in the workflow.
In addition, applications are required that support the
ICC standard, such as the Heidelberg applications
Linocolor, Newcolor, Prinergy or Delta. Furthermore, the
features of the output process (e.g. the definition of the
paper, the ink, the amount of ink and many more) should be
standardized and continuously checked. |
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| Gamut mapping that can
be modified individually and detailed black generation
settings for print and proof tables |
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| Profiles with
transformation tables for process conversion (media
mapping) |
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| Editing of profiles and
application of CMYK gradation curves to profiles |
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| Visual representation
of the printing color space to provide information on the
availability of proofing devices for certain printing
processes |
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| Use of various
Heidelberg test charts, the IT8.7/3 standard test chart
and import of measured data in the ASCII format
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| Color separation for
packaging & label printing (4 freely selectable colors) |
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| Identical functions for
Mac and PC |
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| Identical user
interface under Windows and Mac OS X |
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