Alwan CMYK Optimizer

Alwan CMYK Optimizer

Alwan CMYK Optimizer® Photo for photographers and small agencies.

It allows photographers, designers and prepress companies to quickly and accurately produce documents for problem-free printing. Printers gain the capability to control and improve the printability of files containing four-color separations by optimizing the separation according to the actual process/press/paper. Standardized files using CMYK Optimizer will generate reproducible proofs as well as plates and cylinders that allow optimum printability and runability on pres.

This software optimizes RGB images for output on CMYK devices and delivers images according to color standards.

This CMYK Optimizer version guarantees professional quality four-color separations for all your images and offer great benefits for photographers & designers:

• Problem-free printing of images by the printer • Reproducibility of proofs by the printer • Standardization of images in accordance with ISO standards and ECI ICC profiles • Compliance with ECI and Ghent Working Group specifications

Alwan CMYK Optimizer® PrePress is designed for publishers and small sheet-fed printers.

At the very start of the process, it is crucial for a service provider or publisher to supply files that comply with current industry file standards. This enables partners at every stage of the graphic production line to accurately proof and reproduce the files without any printing problems. Alwan solutions ensure standardized files that can be used by anyone in the production line, anywhere in the world.

CMYK Optimizer offers many technical innovations which are unique to Alwan software like preflight features, dynamic analysis and calculation of optimal total area coverage (TAC) of ink, , dynamic DeviceLink profiles building and XML reporting.

This CMYK Optimizer version guarantees publishing professionals to produce quality four-color separations for all your publications and offer great benefits such as:

• Preflight and Standardization • Problem-free printing of documents and advertisements • Reproducibility of proofs by the printer • Standardization of files in accordance with ISO standards and ECI ICC profiles • Generate PDF files compliant with the certified PDF/X1a and PDF/X3 file format

Alwan CMYK Optimizer® Press produces optimized files for problem-free printing.

PDF files come from a variety of sources; they contain elements having different color spaces and separation options. These files need to be harmonized and adapted to suit the printer's actual printing conditions to ensure accurate rendering of the approved proofs.Alwan CMYK Optimizer® Press allows a pre-press company or printer to check and correct automatically and dynamically the colors and ink weight characteristics of incoming files, before sending them for film or plate output. It can be used with any four-color process (+ spots) regardless of the output technology so is suitable for litho, flexo, gravure, digital, screen etc. The hotfolder-based system offers automatic and dynamic dot gain compensation, TAC correction and black generation for optimal printing.

In everyday production, the printer has to deal with files received from different sources that do not print well on the press. This may be due to a variety of reasons, such as a mismatch between color separation and press profile or between the black generation in the file and the optimal black generation for the used process, or between ink values in the file and press and paper requirements.

Overmore, printers often do not know a long way in advance on which press a job will be produced. Therefore, it is not possible to use the press profile for the CMYK separation on the pre-press system. The stock to be used on a job is sometimes chosen or changed at the last minute depending on price or availability, color and dot gain reproduction can vary dramatically accordingly.

The benefits of using Alwan CMYK Optimizer Press include:

• Standardization of CMYK files from all sources • Output files made compliant to the printing press requirements- Improved printability, faster make-readies and finishing • Improved color rendering and quality
• Better match with color managed proof • Solves virtually all set-off problems caused by heavy ink weights • Easier and more stable printing • Substantial ink savings of up to 30 per cent • Uses state-of-the-art Alwan LinkProfiler technology to build high quality ICC DeviceLink profiles in a dynamic way

Alwan CMYK Optimizer® ECO offers unequaled ink savings capabilities thanks to its Dynamic Black generation.

It is aimed at medium to large printers This version brings you all the benefits as the « Press » version offers (for more info go to the product info section of CMYK Optimizer Press) and additional benefits are:
• Maximum GCR option • Dynamic Maximum Black generation

 

 
 

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Choose Version Web Price
Photo  $1,300.00
PrePress  $7,790.00
Press  $12,990.00
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