Alwan CMYK Optimizer Press

PDF files come from a variety of sources; they contain elements having different colour spaces and separation options. These files need to be harmonised and adapted to suit the printer's actual printing conditions to ensure accurate rendering of the approved proofs.

Alwan CMYK Optimizer allows a pre-press company or printer to check and correct automatically and dynamically the colours and ink weight characteristics of incoming files, before sending them for film or plate output. It can be used with any four-colour 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 colour 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, colour and dot gain reproduction can vary dramatically accordingly.

Benefits

    * Standardisation of CMYK files from all sources
    * Output files made compliant to the printing press requirements- Improved printability, faster make-readies and finishing
    * Improved colour rendering and quality
    * Better match with colour 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

For further information and competitive pricing please contact Pro2col on 0870 250 2220 or email sales. 

Key Features

	Standardisation of CMYK files from all sources
	Output files made compliant to the printing press requirements
	Solves virtually all set-off problems caused by heavy ink weights
	Improved colour rendering and quality
	Better match with colour managed proof
	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