AbsoluteProof developed the world’s first practical Hexachrome ink jet proofing solution in 2002. Now they offer the first and only solution to achieve an accurate colour representation of over 90 per cent of the Pantone colour library in a proofing workflow.
“The issue of Pantone colour matching in digital proofing workflows has been a significant hurdle for the printing industry from day one”, says Hugo Kristinsson, CEO of Gimle. “It is evident from the IPA Proofing Roundup earlier this year where 26 proofing systems attempted to match only 11 Pantone colours, results varied from DeltaE 2.9 to 20.59, returning an disappointing average DeltaE of 9.57. We are pleased to be able to offer our clients a solution that can accurately reproduce the whole 1114 Pantone colours with average DeltaE as low as 1.87. The printing industry and design professionals have never had more colour and control available at their fingertips, they can now reproduce Pantone colours with ease”.
Field-testing of the AbsoluteProof Extrachrome system has demonstrated accurate Pantone colour simulations for over 93 per cent of the Pantone colours under a DeltaE 3, the system has proofed it self to be robust and reliable and capable of processing over 100 special colours in the same job. Even with standard inks this system can simulate over 85 per cent of the Pantone colours below DeltaE 3.
AbsoluteProof is a high quality, low cost, digital proofing application with licensed Pantone colour libraries that delivers Rip integrity and colour integrity, It can take input files directly from the Plate or Imagesetter Rips as well as design applications. AbsoluteProof then recombines and colour manages the information before sending the output file to the printer. In an imagesetter workflow AbsoluteProof gives an extremely precise simulation of how the job will reproduce on the press, showing Pantone colours, halftones, all traps, overprints, fonts, etc. In fact every file attribute that is matchable on a press.
AbsoluteProof’s advanced features include; 6-channel linearisation feature allowing individual inks to be ‘tuned’ for optimising proofer output, Halftone proofing with full control of Dot Gain, Remote proofing and consistency checking via support provided for GretagMacbeth’s ProfileMaker MeasureTool.
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