Cost Saving with Color Management
Same as in every business also in Digital Large Format and Industrial Printing costs can be split up in fixed costs and variable costs.
Fixed costs are printers, the building etc. These, as the term states, are fixed no mather how many prints will be printed or sold.
Variable costs at the other side influence significantly the cost of every single print and vary also basing on the amount of prints or printing jobs. Some of these variable costs are the media used, the ink, the operators’ time, the time the printer is not working due to set up process.
This document shows the possibilities Color Management offers to reduce these above mentioned variable costs in particular ink, time (operators’ and printers’) and the media.
Ink Saving
Fixed costs are printers, the building etc. These, as the term states, are fixed no mather how many prints will be printed or sold.
Variable costs at the other side influence significantly the cost of every single print and vary also basing on the amount of prints or printing jobs. Some of these variable costs are the media used, the ink, the operators’ time, the time the printer is not working due to set up process.
This document shows the possibilities Color Management offers to reduce these above mentioned variable costs in particular ink, time (operators’ and printers’) and the media.
Ink, no matter whether UV-cured ink, solvent ink, water-based ink, latex ink, is the cost factor which is the most crucial one and were cost saving can be most effective.
Ink saving using Color Management is done by optimized GCR. GCR is the abbreviation for gray component replacement. It is a separation technique where black ink is used to replace a portion of the unwanted component in a saturated color. It also replaces grays made with three colors, with black.
Software that is able to create ICC Profile with „Ink-Saving“ (optimized GCR) is Profile-Xpert Print Pro.
The parameter GCR determines to what degree the black ink is used to replace cyan, magenta and yellow.
This parameter can be defined individually according to operators’ needs. As higher GCR is set as more ink will be saved. But the other side of the coin is if the GCR is set to high the print will become flat and without structure. Therefore the right way in the middle has to be found. This depends mainly on the media used and the kind of image printed.
Time Saving
Ink saving using Color Management is done by optimized GCR. GCR is the abbreviation for gray component replacement. It is a separation technique where black ink is used to replace a portion of the unwanted component in a saturated color. It also replaces grays made with three colors, with black.
Software that is able to create ICC Profile with „Ink-Saving“ (optimized GCR) is Profile-Xpert Print Pro.
The parameter GCR determines to what degree the black ink is used to replace cyan, magenta and yellow.
This parameter can be defined individually according to operators’ needs. As higher GCR is set as more ink will be saved. But the other side of the coin is if the GCR is set to high the print will become flat and without structure. Therefore the right way in the middle has to be found. This depends mainly on the media used and the kind of image printed.
…due to immediately right results and automatic and fast measurements.
If Color Management is applied in the right manner and the whole workflow is done including linearization of the printer and creation of the ICC profile for the media, the desired color true output will be reached immediately.
Thanks to this no multiple sample prints have to be printed in order to come step by step closer to the desired color appearance which would lead to wasted operator and printer time.
Furthermore the calibration process has to be done only once for each media (as long as the color output remains stable) and not for each print job.
By means of an automatic measuring device (spectrophotometer) the operator during measurement can bay his attention to other tasks and is not occupied by measuring manually.
Save Media
If Color Management is applied in the right manner and the whole workflow is done including linearization of the printer and creation of the ICC profile for the media, the desired color true output will be reached immediately.
Thanks to this no multiple sample prints have to be printed in order to come step by step closer to the desired color appearance which would lead to wasted operator and printer time.
Furthermore the calibration process has to be done only once for each media (as long as the color output remains stable) and not for each print job.
By means of an automatic measuring device (spectrophotometer) the operator during measurement can bay his attention to other tasks and is not occupied by measuring manually.
…due to getting the right results immediately.
Same as above, thanks to applying Color Management in the right manner also media will be saved as multiple sample prints are not needed any more.
Printing labs who apply Color Management will also spend fewer medium because they will get less customer complaints about wrong color appearance.
Same as above, thanks to applying Color Management in the right manner also media will be saved as multiple sample prints are not needed any more.
Printing labs who apply Color Management will also spend fewer medium because they will get less customer complaints about wrong color appearance.
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