Epson EMX What: Epson provides EMX profiles for their printer containing the settings and ICC profiles for many Media & Mode combinations...
ICC Profile Variants ICC based printer profiles (PMMs) are created with 2 default variants: Colorimetric: paper relative colorimetric conversion from the normalisation color...
Import and Export Profiles Import a profile Proceed as follows: In the calibrator, Click Import. Navigate through your finder to the Profile/ Profiles required. Click...
Ultra Violet (UV) and Optical Brightening Agents (OBA) with M0,1,2,3 Measuring Modes M0, M1, M2, M3 measuring mode settings These ‘M’ modes have been defined in order to standardise the illumination conditions...
Xrite i1 Device connection/reading issues Connection issues The i1 devices are known to be sensitive to low powered USB ports. Those port are common on MacBook and...
Calibrating Printers Preparing the printer, media and spectrophotometer Preparatory steps Prepare the following items: Printer, of the target model, and connected to...
Dot Gain Correction Curve About Dot Gain correction Dot gain correction allows for 2 uses: Compensate for dot gain curves in the imagesetter or...
About Calibrator and Printer Profiles (PMM) About printer profiles PrintFactory controls the output of inkjet printers through the use of printer profiles or PMMs (Print Media Mode). Printer...
Spot Colors A key feature in PrintFactory is the precise spot color processing. In digital production, spot colors such as Pantone™, DIC or HKS can...
Spot Color Tuning Spot colors can be manually fine-tuned to meet special requirements or to improve the visual match. The spot color tuning is...
Installing the spectrophotometer When do you need a spectrophotometer? You need spectrophotometers to perform the following tasks: Creating printer profiles Recalibrating printers that...
Setting up the spectrophotometer Configure and calibrate If you use a spectrophotometer with PrintFactory Calibrator, you need to configure and calibrate it on the PrintFactory computer. Configuring the spectrophotometer is...
PrintFactory Visual Evaluation test form At the end of the wizard to create a profile the option is offered to print the Visual Evaluation Test...
Full Light Ink Control The Full Light Ink Control Splitting tool allows infinite customization of the ink splitting between light and dark inks as well...
Setup environment for profiling Preparing the printer, media and spectrophotometer Prepare the following items: Printer, of the target model, and connected to the RIP...
Import and Export Color Libraries Import a Color Library Proceed as follows: In the Calibrator, Open the Mode to reveal the PrintSettings and Spot Colors. Highlight...
Setup and tune named colors Setup a named Color Proceed as follows: In the Calibrator, Open the Mode to reveal the PrintSettings and Spot Colors. Highlight...
Profiling variants for MX and VISU PrintFactory includes two color management engines, MX and VISU. MX is based on GMG’s MX4 color management technology and VISU...
Custom VISU variants This document explains all options available to amend a color profile variant: Further rendering intents Black generation Profile size, color boosting...
Recalibrating the Printer Profile Recalibration is the process of adjusting the existing MX or VISU printer profile to the color shift that this printer...