What is new in Color Engine 14?

• Support for eXact spectro
• Improved support for XRGA and measurement standards
• Profile compare tool
• Spot color refinement wizard
• Quality and reliability improvements to FlexProof
• Equinox enhancements
• New PANTONE+ colors

 

Support for eXact Spectro

• The eXact is a high accuracy spectrophotometer from x•rite, designed for professional prepress and pressroom applications.
• High accuracy
• Supports multiple measurement modes
• M standards allow correct handling of substrate with OBA’s
• Recommended device for PantoneLIVE workflows
• USB interface

 

 

XRGA and measurement standards

XRGA is a standard for measurement devices

• Significantly reduces error between different device models
• New x•rite instruments all measure to the XRGA standard

Color Engine Pilot will convert old profile measurements to XRGA

• Allows existing databases to be adapted to the new standard

Color Engine records measurement conditions for profiles

 

Profile compare tool

Compare two profiles

• useful to decide on quality of measured data, for example
• Inspect details of the patches…
• View ∆E using a choice of formulae
• Highlight patches of primaries, patches with high ∆E…

 

 

Refine inks wizard for FlexProof

• An important aspect of proofing (particularly with the increased use of PantoneLIVE) is the accurate representation of spot inks.
• The wizard automates the process of making these spot inks more accurate, saving a lot of time for the customer.
• The wizard works with spectral data so retaining all the advantages of Esko’s Color Engine such as ink profiling and spot color overprint model.

 

 

• The wizard allows iterative refinement of inks, based on measured values.
• Select a large number of inks to refineat one time.
• Test charts are automatically generated for the proofer.

 

 

• Set the desired ∆E tolerance.
• After each iteration, a comprehensive report is displayed showing how accurately each spot ink is being matched, as well as overall statistics.
• Out of gamut inks are indicated by a warning triangle.
• With this wizard, Color Engine and FlexProof are an excellent proofing solution for PantoneLIVE.

 

 

Quality and reliability improvements for FlexProof

• Updated 'Check and recalibrate' function
• Includes a linearization step to improve accuracy of the proofer
• Standard profiles can be used
• Profiles can more easily be transferred between devices
• Ease of use!

 

 

• Improved profiles and linearizations
• Smoother separations and gradations
• Larger color gamut, especially in green colors
• Improved Quality!

 

 

Equinox enhancements

Tool in Color Engine Pilot to print a color swatch book

• Select one or two Equinox strategies, and an ink book (eg Pantone book)
• The tool generates a PDF file showing the inks as they are converted via Equinox
• Print this PDF to obtain a “Pantone like” swatch book
• When choosing 2 strategies you get “split patches” (for example showing a CMYK conversion vs a CMYKOGV conversion of the ink)

Extra control for Blue-Black builds

• Only avoid Blue-Black mix when the tone values are between 10% and 80% for example
• No need to avoid mix for very large or very small tone values (no risk of moiré)

Display color values in Lch

• as alternative to Lab

 

New PANTONE+ colors

• The Color Engine now includes the 336 additional colors that were added to PANTONE+ in 2012
• The Color Engine also includes 84 new PANTONE+ colors that were announced by PANTONE in March 2014
• These colors have numbers from 2337 to 2427
• The data for earlier PANTONE+ colors has not been changed
• These new colors will be automatically installed on updating to Suite 14