Expanding the Possibilities of Color

Opaltone: Opaltone reportedly gives digital, flexo, gravure, letterpress, lithography, and screen printers the ability to use CMYK plus Opaltone red, green, and blue (Opaltone R'G'B'). Originally developed for use on high-end drum scanners, the Opaltone R'G'B' color separation algorithm is said to automatically separate up to three additional R'G'B' saturation plates using Photoshop 6.0 or later. The resulting separations complement CMYK without modifying the source image. Opaltone's DCS2.0 format is supported by most RIPs and most popular graphic assembly programs, including ArtPro PackEdge, Freehand, Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, and Pagemaker, as well as QuarkXpress. Earlier this year, X-Rite Inc. and Opaltone Inc. announced a partnership to further develop multicolor profile measurement solutions for the implementation of Opaltone Digital Color. Opaltone-certified proofers include the DuPont Waterproof and Kodak Approval systems.