HP ESKO Workflow User Manual

User GuideHP Indigo Labels and Packaging Color Kitpowered by EskoArtwork

Spectrophotometer 9 2. Choose to install the driver yourself. 3. Select Eye-One and click 'Have Disk'.

Spectrophotometer 10 4. Click 'Browse'. 5. Browse to the Documentation DVD under Extra - Spectrophotometer drivers, select

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Spectrophotometer 12 6. Click 'OK'. 7.

Spectrophotometer 13 8. 9. The Eye-One is now ready to be used in Color Kit Calibration of the spectrophotometer 1. Your spectrophot

Spectrophotometer 14 2. Click 'Calibrate'. Note: For hand-held spectrophotometers, you will be asked to put the meter on the ab

Spectrophotometer 15 3. If the calibration was successful, the following message will appear: 4. Click 'OK' to close the spectro

Spectrophotometer 16 Caution! If you have decided to use a filter, please use this filter to measure all profiles. Mixing profiles m

17 Deciding on a testchart First of all you have to decide which test chart to use. A couple of parameters will decide which parameters will deci

Digital Proofing: Step by step 18 As you can see from the overview, different charts will be used for press profiles covering different color

HP Indigo Labels and Packaging powered by EskoArtwork Color Kit User Guide

Digital Proofing: Step by step 19 Choose your FlexRip configuration in the ‘proofer’ window. This can be CMYK, CMYKOV or CMYKOGV. Remember that

Digital Proofing: Step by step 20 You will see some extra information displayed about the configuration. Now you need to save the file, with

Digital Proofing: Step by step 21 You see the name that you have given in the upper-left corner. All you need to do to get the files printed on

Digital Proofing: Step by step 22 Go to the 'Overprints' tab. Color Kit will now check which spectrophotometer is connected to your s

Digital Proofing: Step by step 23 5. Slide the meter along the ruler at a constant pace (still holding the button pressed). 6. Release the but

Digital Proofing: Step by step 24 4. Wait until all the measurements have been passed to Color Kit. ; Note The CMYK combination shown in Col

Digital Proofing: Step by step 25 Note: The chart can be inserted both ways: arrow first or arrow last. Xrite DTP70 1. Have the first page ready

Digital Proofing: Step by step 26 Visualizing the measurements of a multi-color profile looks like this: (mind the device coordinates window,

Digital Proofing: Step by step 27 To find the bad patch on the chart, select the patch by clicking it, and then select the Chart View tab. Th

Digital Proofing: Step by step 28 Recover a profile If you have found mistakes in the measurement (see Verifying a profile (page 25)), you ca

Introduction 2 Copyright © 2008 Copyright Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. Reproduction, adaptation, or translation without prior writte

Digital Proofing: Step by step 29 Note: If you have to re-measure several non-subsequent patches, you do not have to re-measure all the patches i

Digital Proofing: Step by step 30 and other operators just pick one. This makes life easier for operators and makes a color workflow less error p

Digital Proofing: Step by step 31 • Simulate a different dot gain for special colors and process colors (page Error! Bookmark not defined.).

Digital Proofing: Step by step 32 conversion method in an HP Indigo workflow, as the ink characteristics of the Indigo press are different than t

Digital Proofing: Step by step 33 1. Open an ink book by double-clicking an empty patch or by clicking the ink book symbol in the ink toolbar.

Digital Proofing: Step by step 34 Choose the conversion method ‘Custom values’ for the ink PANTONE® 106. You now manually adapt the percentage

Digital Proofing: Step by step 35 • Pantone CMYK Euro (Has been overruled by Color Bridge but we still provide it for compatibility with the pas

Digital Proofing: Step by step 36 Refining the values obtained through the destination profile When opening the refine tool for an ink that is u

Digital Proofing: Step by step 37 Profile, the option Refined Destination Profile is selected for the refined ink, while the selected values will

Digital Proofing: Step by step 38 When making a measurement, the measured Lab values will appear in the Proofed Color column. Comparing those to

Contents Introduction...

Digital Proofing: Step by step 39 • The central value: by default the new custom value selected in the Refine Custom Values dialog box. • The d

Digital Proofing: Step by step 40 We recommend that you use this option in your color strategies for HP Indigo. Note Match inks is the default be

Digital Proofing: Step by step 41 Extra Output inks 'Extra output inks' allows you to specify extra output inks for printers that ha

Digital Proofing: Step by step 42 Also, when mixing custom inks for HP Indigo, they will need to be defined as extra output ink. Export a col

Digital Proofing: Step by step 43 Note If you are trying to import an .FP file that is not a color strategy, the following error will pop up:

44 ICC profiles • Definition of ICC profiles (page 44) • Notes on importing an ICC profile (page 44) • Exporting to ICC profiles (page 45) •

ICC profiles 45 • Stability of the devices. If you downloaded a profile of a particular monitor, it does not necessarily mean that your monitor

ICC profiles 46 ; Note It is not possible to influence the settings for black generation at this moment. The ICC profiles that Color Kit generat

ICC profiles 47 Importing ICC profiles • Import an ICC profile (page 47) • Use the ICC profile in any Esko application (page 47) • Build proce

48 Dealing with Special colors Color Kit features tools that enable you to characterize inks. The standard library of Pantone inks was also char

Introduction 4 Introduction HP Indigo Labels and Packaging Color Kit powered by Esko includes: • software to measure color charts. • software

Dealing with Special colors 49 ; Note If you are working with a Gretag SpectroScan, you will have to align the crosshair on the patch that you w

Dealing with Special colors 50 Info on inks Inks from the standard Esko ink books: Inks based on an LAB value: Export an ink book 1.

Dealing with Special colors 51 Import an ink book 1. Go to 'Ink books' in the main dialog box. 2. Go to the 'File' menu >

Dealing with Special colors 52 and substrate. You can also limit the page dimensions (by default, the full page width will always be used) and sp

Dealing with Special colors 53 ; Note Pages and columns that are completely empty will be skipped automatically.

54 Tools • Links (page 54) • Gamut View (page 56) • Compare Inks (page 58) • Gamut Check (page 59) • Average Profiles (page 60) • Preferenc

Tools 55 The red arrows tells you that the selected profile 'proofer_8x8_black' is referenced 5 times in device links and as many color

Tools 56 ; Note Read-only elements cannot be deleted from “Links”. Gamut View With gamut view, you can evaluate the color gamut of a device and

Tools 57 To delete a profile from the list, press the 'Delete' button on your keyboard or select the icon from the toolbar next to ‘Prof

Tools 58 In the example above, a press profile (blue) and a proofer profile (red) are compared. You can see that the press profile is virtually

Introduction 5 the profile and what kind of profile it is: a proofer, press, monitor or scanner profile. It will also tell you if the profile is r

Tools 59 A list of comparions can be made and exported to a text file by clicking the 'Save As...' button in the bottom-right corner. Ga

Tools 60 For every Pantone, the Gamut check window tells you: • How it will be separated. • If it is inside gamut or not (a tick means it is

Tools 61 You will find the Average Profiles tool in the Tools menu. First, you will need to select your base profile. This profile will determine

Tools 62 To generate and save the new profile, click 'Save Averaged Profile…'. Preferences You can specify a number of preferences i

Tools 63 Spectrophotometer By default, Color Kit automatically detects the connected spectrophotometer. If you always connect your spectropho

Tools 64 (1:1) and CMC (2:1). The selection that you make in the Color Settings tab will be used as default in the dialog boxes of the Compare To

65 Example of a workflow We explain how to proceed if you want to output jobs on your HPIndigo. 1. Make sure your press is in perfect condition.

Extra information 66 In this example we make a profile for IndiChrome output (CMYKOV), choose this inkset from the drop down list. The chosen in

Extra information 67 After you save the file, carefully considering an appropriate name, the buttons are active, send the files by pushing the

Extra information 68 When there are no mistakes in the measurements, proceed by making a new color strategy.

6 Prerequisites Before Esko Color Kit can be of any use to you, the following prerequisites need to be fulfilled: • A spectrophotometer is essen

Extra information 69 Right-click on ‘Color Strategy’ and choose ‘New’

Extra information 70 We choose the same profile for source and destination. Leaving the Destination profile on <Automatic> has the same

Extra information 71 Choose ‘Match Solids. Pantone® inks will be converted by means of the Destination Profile. Set Gamut Mapping to Closest

Extra information 72 Choose inkbook Pantone® and choose your finished strategy. Click the Check Button.

Extra information 73 On the basis of the output percentages that you get now, you may wish to already change some values manually. This is don

Extra information 74 In Pantone® 494, we remove the 1,5% black. As a next step, proof your inkbook by opening the Pantone® book and print it on

Extra information 75 • manually editing values • refining values by measuring the printed result • proofing grid charts. The result will be a

Extra information 76 Appendix, a closer look at the standard Color Strategies Color Kit comes with a set of standard color strategies: Here is ho

Extra information 77 name: HPI-CMYKOVG What is it used for? for CMYKOVG (IndiChrome Plus), so in combination with a HP Indigo FlexRip configurati

Extra information 78 HPI1, 2 or 3, Violet is called HPI1, 2 or 3. There can be either a green or a white ink called HPI1,2 or 3. In this case the

7 Spectrophotometer Supported spectrophotometers The following spectrophotometers are supported for USB: • Gretag SpectroEye • Gretag Eye-One •

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