What's new in Color Engine 14?
What is new in Color Engine 14?
- 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 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
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…

- 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.

- 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!

Tool in Color Engine Pilot to print a color swatch book
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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
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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
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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
