Generates a PPF / CIP3 file and a color control ink report for faster make ready time. Ideal for older offset presses which need a key adjustment for every job.
NEW VERSION 3
Minimum requirement: Ghostscript already installed. (Free/GPL license)
Product Benefits:
Ink Ready will help you reduce your make ready time considerably by generating a report showing the density of each key on your press from your file. Ink ready will read information from a PDF of PS file, and may output CIP4 PPF information, as well as a report in PDF format.
Main Features:
Ink Ready is a tool to take prepress digital plates to control ink density on the printing press. Ink Ready does this for both presses that have digital connectivity (CIP3/4 PPF) and presses that do not.
Ink Ready takes the digital plate in PDF or PS format and produces a PPF ink density data that can be exported to any color control console on a press that supports PPF, or it produces on screen, and as a printout, the ink densities of each ink zone, as defined by the user, for how many ink zones the press has.
Ink Ready also works with any workflow or RIP that produces a PPF file for printing presses. INK READY can provide a preview of the PPF file and can output one divided into ink zones when the printer does not have a PPF driven color console, or has a shop where it is mixed between PPF ready presses and non PPF ready presses. INK READY works with digital plate files from any source and supports CMYK and spot colors. The preview can be composite or in separated layers.
Ink Ready supports dot gain curves to optimize ink reports on the basis of specific plant needs.
