Re: Proofing Progressives on Clear Substrate
Re: Proofing Progressives on Clear Substrate
- Subject: Re: Proofing Progressives on Clear Substrate
- From: Brian O'Neill <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:31:16 -0500
- Thread-topic: Proofing Progressives on Clear Substrate
I currently use CGS's ORIS RIP for exactly this purpose, and I am very happy
with the ease-of-use and result.
I calibrate the machine (an Epson 4880) using the normal calibration and
color match procedures on the ORIS material for GRACoL and then set up a
hotfolder for our standard GRACoL proofing. This hotfolder maintains the
calibration set and any spot color tweaks I have done.
I then create a new hotfolder to be used for the separations, and swap out
the GRACoL paper for the ORIS clear material (a little hard to come by, but
it holds the color beautifully as compared to the reference GRACoL print).
The features I have enabled in the separations hotfolder (we call them color
keys) are the Separations option in the Printer Layout tab, CMYK + Spot, and
then the Scatterproofing option in the Scatterproofing/Tiling Hotfolder
Properties drop-down.
I then can drop images or PDFs on the hotfolder, and it will take care of
the separations and placing the documents multiple-up to best fit the clear
material.
Hope this helps.
Brian O'Neill
Graphic Systems Group
www.gsgnyc.com
On 12/15/09 1:06 PM, "Robert Lyon" <email@hidden> wrote:
> Objective - Produce individual digital separations + spot colors
> efficiently on clears substrate, preferably on the Epson 4880
>
> Ideal Methodology:
>
> Send PDF files to CM RIP driving an Epson 4880 or equivalent. The rip
> will need to be able to recognize the cmyk and spot color and print
> each color individually on clear substrate. While these are not
> contract proofs, the spot colors will need to be a reasonable
> facsimile. It is also necessary to have a RIP that will automatically
> nest or gang the images automatically to utilize material to its
> fullest and save time.
>
> Our current EFI XF 4.0 RIP when set to "make separations" works but
> it makes each color a "page" and is not able to nest the separation
> across the sheet. It ends up printing one after the other in the
> vertical direction. These files are only 3 or 4 inches wide so there
> is considerable waste in time and material. We have been working
> around this by sending individual postscript for each color. This is
> tedious for operators, especially with multiple versions of 10 color
> jobs. 10 colors x 3 version = printing postscript 30 times!
>
> Any ideas out there? We are looking to by the appropriate RIP with
> the most efficient workflow to achieve our objective.
>
> Thanks, Bob
>
> Robert Lyon
> Image Processing
>
>
>
>
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