Predicting Spot Color Overprints

Many profile creators need data from lots of targets, but it can be difficult to read them all within one package development cycle. If CSW is working with a job that needs to be completed quickly, it can now read just some of the data and still deliver accurate color.

"It would be fair to say that OpenColor has cut our color management and proofing time in half," says Skrzynski. "Printers are not incurring the expense of makeready and press time for running 800 feet/minute for test charts. They are also seeing cost savings in the reduction of the consumables needed to print—and reprint—multiple overprint iterations on their proofing devices. Our own proofer is no longer tied up with such iterations, which kept other jobs waiting in the queue."