For saving A LOT of time and PAPER, download Colorsource software applications and test forms,
and match your
printing presses to CMYK ISO12647-2-3-4-6 and/or G7/IDEAlliance standards
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Learn here how to
normalize, document, and match all CMYK or N-Color print processes:
Matching
any existing print standard and creating your own print standards using the best
practices and methods with Colorsource. Download the PowerPoint as PDF file:
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The best ISO
12647-2-3-4-6, WAN-IFRA and G7/IDEAlliance press
setting apps:
MagicPress and MagicPrepress applications can use all your measurement files
of all control strips printed with one to ten inks.
As a result, MagicPrepress and MagicPress can
process the measurements files produced by almost all 45/0° spectrophotometers on the
market (eg. X-Rite i1Pro family, Konica-Minolta, Techkon,
X-Rite eXact, (although using a spectrophotometer of the i1Pro 1, 2, 3 family
is much more efficient AND far less expensive than eXact!)
Actually, you will find that quality and productivity of
your color prints does not depend on the spectrophotometer model you are using, but
mainly on the software applications that exploit your measurements. And
that's the specialty of Colorsource applications.
Do
not hesitate asking us remote demos using Microsoft Teams or Zoom applications.
Please
note the trial versions of our paying software have some deliberate limitations: For example, the 100% Magenta ink optimal print density
and the according workflow correction curve are not displayed. If you want
a temporary license key for testing without any limits, please send us your
request by email with your full professional co-ordinates. The
applications require Excel 2010,
Excel 2013 or Excel 2016 or later 32- or 64-bits versions on your PC running
Windows 32 or 64 bits
(Windows 7/ 8.1/ 10/ 11).
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MagicPress
and MagicPrepress v2.5: For fast, easy, and reliable ISO12647-2-3-4-6
and WAN-IFRA and G7/IDEAlliance and custom CMYK press setting, and much more:
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In the installation zip of each Colorsource application, you will find many
examples of measurement files that allow you to quickly familiarize yourself
with how it works.
Well-suited examples of printable sights to incorporate into
your test shapes, proofs, and prints are provided in the installation zip of
each Colorsource application. These printable sights are accompanied by their
standardized reference files in CGATS format allowing their rapid measurement in
scanning using any 45/0° spectrophotometer. For CMYK calibrations to ISO12647
standards, you can also directly use our free CMYK test shapes available at the
bottom of this page, which have all the necessary sights.
MagicPress and MagicPrepress N-CLR
options:
MagicPress
and MagicPrepress trial versions can open and process any 1 to 10 colors press chart
CGATS measurement file with or without a CMYK base, but only partial results are
displayed. If you want
a temporary license key for testing MagicPress and MagicPrepress
and their N-Color options without any limits, please send us your
request by email with your full professional co-ordinates.
Do not hesitate asking us remote support or demos using Microsoft
Teams or Zoom applications.
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FREE ISO12647-7
and WAN-IFRA and G7/IDEAlliance
Proof and Print control software:
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Magic_Proof_&_Print_Control
v1.5:
Free
and
reliable and
fast control of all color proofs according to ISO12647-7 or WAN-IFRA or G7/IDEAlliance
standards:
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Worthy successor to CMYK_Print_&_Proof, Magic_Proof_&_Print_Control allows
you to instantly control all classic CMYK control bars, including UGRA/FOGRA Media
Wedge 2 and 3, G7/IDEAlliance 2006 and 2013, and Colorsource 2007:
The control bar type is recognized automatically and the nearest
ISO12647-2-3-4-6 standard is automatically offered as the control target for
CMYK inks.
But going much further, Magic_Proof_&_Print_Control also allows you to
control any proof or print using one to ten inks, and with or without a CMYK
base.
Magic_Proof_&_Print_Control offers
you all its features for free, for a period of 30 days. Beyond 30 days,
all control functions for color proofs between 1 and 10 colors keep free of charge,
but you are asked to register by email with Colorsource.
The print control
functions
(Control of
densities and TVI/ dot gain curves for 1 to 10 colors print processes) are subject to a
low fee, in the form of an
inexpensive license that can be acquired at any time.
Magic_Proof_&_Print_Control is
the most flexible and powerful software available. It allows you to produce a
proof validation ticket and also a complete and detailed control report in PDF
format.
In addition to standardized print and
proof controls according to ISO12647, Magic_Proof_&_Print_Control
also allows you to set your own target colors and tolerances, for the control of
all your digital and traditional prints, according to your own printing
standards.
An
interesting
Fogra Media Wedge 3 control file: This Epson proof is considered BAD on
yellow 100% by ISO12647-7 ΔE76 and ΔH control, while ΔE2000
control shows the Yellow 100% patch is printed much better than many other
patches including C100% and M100%! Check it by yourself by using
Magic_Proof_&_Print_Control:
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Convert
all your CxFv3 format swatch books to CGATS text format and use them with the
best market applications:
This product is suppressed: You can download MagicPress
or MagicPrepress trial versions and use their Inks Libraries InksLib
in order to import any CxFv3 PANTONE ink library and export it as
CGATS file. Following user's guide keeps useful because it explains you
how to get all up to date PANTONE spectral libraries, that are the reference for
any PANTONE ink formulation or ink quality control or print quality control:
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Lithographic plates control and CtP calibration:
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PLATE: For lithographic
offset plates control and CtP calibration
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Advanced printing
press and digital printer's characterization:
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Spot_Color_Manager:
For controlling PANTONE and all spot colors ink's formulation
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CMYK_Backgrounds:
For printing on colored or transparent print medias with or without white
ink
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ICC_Profile_Convertor:
For N-colors
design, prepress, and color proofing
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Colorsource free CMYK test forms:
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These CMYK test prints allows easy setting of all your presses for matching ISO 12647-2-3-4-6
or G7/IDEAlliance standards,
or any custom CMYK standard.
Important note: All CMYK images in these test forms are
color separated using an ISOCoatedv2 CMYK ICC profile with 300% total ink
coverage. You should use these CMYK test forms unchanged for setting your
offset presses matching thick coated, or white uncoated offset paper ISO
standards.
But if reprinting the test form on white uncoated offset paper
with appropriately corrected CMYK plates, you should do CMYK conversion on your
prepress workflow, from ISOCoatedv2 (Fogra 39) to the appropriate ISO Fogra 47
color space; in perceptual mode. (Use two ICC profiles or a DeviceLink computed
from these profiles). This in order to get a nice print appearance on white
offset paper.
Another solution consists into modifying our original CMYK
test form with ISOCoatedv2 color separations into a new test form with Fogra_47
color separations, which is easy to do, by opening its PDF with Illustrator, and
then converting all CMYK images (except CMYK charts, of course) from ISOCoatedv2
into the appropriate calibrated press color space.
The CGATS reference text files for measuring all CMYK charts
present in these test forms are supplied in the distribution ZIPs of MagicPress (Computing the optimal CMYK print densities), MagicPrepress
(Computing the optimal correction curves), and PLATE (Checking the offset
plates and calibrating CtP's if necessary):
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