Colour Management Tools

Colour Verification

Calibrate your colour and verify your output with the Calcheck application.

Calcheck lets you create colour control charts from press ICC profiles or custom data. Print standalone charts or attach them to jobs to ensure your colour is contract standard.

Measure charts using a wide range of spectrophotometers, against Δe (CIE76, CIE94, CIE2000), ΔH and ΔCh tolerances, using M0, M1, M2, or M3 illuminant conditions.

Contract Colours

• Assign Calcheck Charts to a Jobticket to print with each proofing job.
• Easy to view results with a breakdown of all colours, their results and pass or fail status.

Colour Performance

• Access the Calcheck History to view details for previous submissions.
• Print a label for a job, or a complete report can be exported.

Available with Blackmagic, Megarip, and Veripress (Calcheck Charts only) products.

Set For Proofing

SoftProof is our on-screen proofing application. Combined with Displays, our monitor calibration and verification application, SoftProof can supplement your print proofing - or replace it entirely.

Configure Press simulation settings to view proofs on screen with precise colour accuracy. Check jobs for bleed or errors before sending them to press.

See at a glance how a job will print using a newspaper stock, or a glossy magazine media with a simple mouse click.

Job Previews

• Multi-resolution previews allow for real-time zooming, from an entire job down to a single pixel.
• View a single page, page spread, or load an entire publication, with an option for back page show-through.
• Signature overlay can be enabled for imposed press sheets to confirm correct page orientation and placement before printing.
• Swap press configurations when viewing jobs to simulate different substrates on screen.

Built-in Widgets

• An ink weight calculator can show the amount of ink required for a particular print run.
• View individual channels with the Channels widget.
• Zoom in with the Virtual Loupe to view minute details of a job to check for bleed or image artifacts.
• Use the built-in Spectro application to compare and verify that colours on-screen match printed proofs or press material.

Available with Blackmagic, Megarip, and Veripress products.

Take a look at our SoftProof Youtube playlist to see how easy it is to use.

Printer Control & Management

Blackmagic and Megarip have many features to help obtain and maintain consistent colour for your output, and use the least amount of ink to produce the colours you want.

View current printer status, ink levels, warnings and error messages for the connected, compatible printer.

Media usage can be tracked with the MediaStatus module - a window displaying the current calibration status of a Media, and a progress bar showing the amount of media (substrate) used.

Ink Limits & Paper Profiles

• Use Paper Profiling to individually characterise print media for optimum colour output.
• Ink Limits allow you to set the ink mix of the channels applied in the paper profile. Adjusting the levels for each channel allows for the optimum ink density to be reached, without wasting ink or compromising colour output.

Linearisation

• The Lineariser application measures your colour output and creates curves to balance your printer's CMY or RGB grey output, while calibrating its ink channels.
• If the printer output varies due to ink batches or head wear, a quick re-linearisation process is all that's required to bring the printer back in line.

Legendary Layouts with Studio

The Studio application makes manual nesting and batch layouts quick and easy. Submit your files as Assets (previews), then simply drag and drop them into place. Studio can auto-arrange any layout to minimise media waste, prepare images for canvas wrapping, or set up tiling for printing large images, like billboards.

Various editing functions are available in Studio - cropping, rotation, orientation, grouping and alignment. Create frames with a coloured border, text boxes, pin frames in place to avoid any accidental movements, or insert files with transparencies for overlay or watermarking.

A toolbar is displayed with buttons to quickly enable the selected function. Frame spacing can be turned on to allocate gaps between jobs. Cropmarks can be enabled to aid in cutting.

Step & Repeat, Canvas Wraps

• Create a set of user-defined frames with Step and Repeat for job placement, then repeat them across and/or down the layout area. Repeat the same image, or a combination of images to completely fill the available media for printing.
• Transform a file into a canvas print, ready for mounting with Canvas Wrap mode. Customise everything from frame size, frame thickness, back wrap size and back wrap printing to get your canvas just right.

Tiling & Templates

• The tiling function is available for printing large jobs like billboards, or jobs larger than the available print media. Tiles are automatically generated, with a visual display showing any overlap size and cropmarks placed to aid in alignment after printing.
• Templates for specific layouts can be created and stored for repeat use. Simply create a blank frame design with the step and repeat function, or use an existing layout to save an empty template.

Available with Blackmagic and Megarip products.

Check out our Youtube Studio playlist to see the application in use.