X-Rite InkFormulation 5 PrinterBasic > PrinterPro
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1. see that the maximum quantity of the ink leftover was attached This is because this brown matches well to the brown color draft 8 The use of the ink leftover of the InkFormulation contains a semi automatic quantity maintenance This means that the used quantity have to be charged manually after formulating This happens as following Menu Formula Reduce ink leftover am OW e 5 FE 9 Inthe window Reduce ink leftover the state before and after the charge of the used quantity in the formula is showed Click on OK to realize the charge 10 Please save the formula as following Menu Formula Save Please enter as name Brown with ink leftover and click on Kxrite 35 11 Reopen the window of the ink leftover database Menu Database leftovers Here we can see that the original stock of 25 was reduced by the used the formula and has now a new stock of O Remark To work with the quantity is not mandatory but an option You can work without quantity without any problems The user has to control by himself that the ink leftovers which are used in the formula are avallable in the required quantity 12 Hereby the formulating circle under use of an ink leftover is finalized Please click Close Kxrite Enter a formula by hand This function enables the creation of2. Fix number of decimal The number of the digits after the comma which are shown in the main window and on the printed formula can be defined Maximum color distance borderline until where the formulas are shown b Database If this option is activated only formulas of the current loaded assortment are shown in the formula database c Tolerance With this setting the dE Tolerance borderline can be fixed In the display of the color space this borderline is shown as a gray circle d dE Formula For the identification of the used Delta E Formula 2 Close the window with Cancel E map n E Show ny eer of net F Stam ne eran FEB m E FE tanan Catur Spe Pd Kxrite s Settings Batching systems 1 Menu Settings Batching system In this window you can define the connection to the dosing arrangement 2 Inthe column Available dosing systems please choose Universal Batching System and click on the right showing arrow 3 Mark the system and click on Edit 79 Kxrite 55 56 and the order of the dosing 4 In this window you can fix the formula edit 5 Click on Setup Indicate the initial path for the formulas to be dosed TT 6 To leave this setting please click on Cancel Kxrite Settings 3PM 1 Menu Settings
3. basic colors Kxrite 1 Click on the symbol formulate Basic formula 2 Firstly the guideline color has to be defined Instead of measuring the color you can load the color data via ColorNet Color Guide or Lab entry ColorNet is the connection between the various X Rite Applications InkFormulation ColorQuality Spectrophotometer Saved colors can be exchanged via ColorNet You can enter the color data with defined colorimetrical terms via the Lab Entry However this definition of the guideline color has the disadvantage that the InkFormulation doesn t experience any remission data but only the calculated color data Via Color Guide you can choose the Pantone coloring according to the substrate coated uncoated matte and the lighting conditions this button assumes that the color guide libraries are provided Kxrite Please load a saved color via ColorNet for the exercises DU c ng EF E f n Cee mm m 1 Mark the draft of Table Brown in the index InkFormulation Default Formulation Default Table Brown 2 Click on Choose to load the coloring as color draft After double appear ing the supreme folder X Rite ColorNet all available applications mark The structure of the ColorNet is analog to the one of the Windows Explorers By double icking the folders the ones below will open Should
4. existing formulas into the InkFormulation 1 Menu Formula 2 In practice only the proof of the formula would be measured In our example we load the color via ColorNet Click in the window Entry of Formula on ColorNet Remark The case which we are regarding is based on existing proof resp dross If only the formula is available you can enter it via Menu Formula New Calculate The color of the formula will be then calculated by the InkFormulation pon Oe mma Kxrite il 3 double clicking the window ColorNet on the concentration stage of 55 of the assortment color Orange in InkFormulation Default Assortments Flexo gravure printing incl Colorant elements Pol Leneta This would be our mixed color 4 For our example please choose the substrate of the current assortment Click eee iiie Remark In practice itis very important to measure the original substrate on which the formula printed Kxrite s In the window Entry of the formula above on the right side the color shade appears with the corresponding color data under Formula measured 5 Entitle the color Formula Orange 6 Inthe left window please double click with the available assortment colors Orange 7 Enter the quantity 55 into the field Color quantity 8 By double clicking on Transparent white in the
5. left window with the assortment colors the transparent white changes as well to the right side of the formula window 9 Please enter the quantity 45 into the field of the color quantity 10 The formula is now completely composed Please click on 38 39 The formula appears in the main window Xe xrite Create a new formula folder We save the just created formula in a new formula folder Therefore we have to create a folder first 1 Click on the symbol Formula Save Symbol disk or choose the option over Menu Formula Save 2 In the window Save color formula click on Change folder 5839 cee 388 mr 3 In the window Choose current folder please click on 4 Entitle the new folder with Test formula folder and click on OK Cee Kxrite d 5 Mark the Test formula folder in the window Choose current folder and click on Choose 6 Over the button the formula will be saved in the chosen folder zm EE De T E E5984 x 5 5 0 4 Search a formula by name This research helps to find formulas again 1 Click on the symbol Formula Load The window Database appears 2 We are searching ou
6. loading the formula please click on the symbol Formulating adjustment formula In the appearing color selection window the colors of the formula are already preselected 3 Click on OK Remark It s mostly beneficial to realize an adjustment calculation with colors which are already Contained in the formula Should the adjustment result not be satisfactory you can realize an adjustment calculation with all colors Kxrite 2 4 In next step you have to enter the current mixture In practice it s normally realized by measuring the mixed and printed basic formula In our exercise we take this color via ColorNet For this please click on ColorNet 5 Mark the color Formula calculated in the ColorNet in InkFormulation Default Formulas Table Brown Click Choose 21 22 6 After the calculation the window formula choice appears Click on the downwards arrow to open the formula list As we can see there was only one adjustment calculated 7 Click on OK to adopt the adjustment The adjustment of the formula is shown well arranged By activating Total color quantity the color quantity becomes editable Reduce the color quantity to 100 by actuating the upwards arrow and click on Remark You can see on the result of the adjustment that in this case there was no improvement of the formul
7. the option Overwrite Confirm the now appearing warning signal with OK aniy sci wh we matin the conem database Remark Attention with the option Overwrite You should only choose this when you really want to overwrite replace the existing database With the option Amend new data since the last backup will be added to the existing data The existing data will not be changed End of exercise On the next page you ll find an overview about general settings Kxrite 9 Settings General 1 Menu Settings General a Standard measuring conditions normally analog like the display below whereas under the file Filter there has to be taken a choice only by creating a new assortment Apart from that the program requires automatically the filter with which the current loaded assortment was created b Color system Here you can always switch between CIE Lab and LCh The values are shown accordingly in the main window c Illuminant for metamerism With above mentioned settings possible metamerism is shown under warm yellowish and cold bluish with parts of UV F11 light This is a usual setting d Averaging for homogen color films one measurement may be sufficient If the color film is broken or turbulent we recommend 2 3 or more measurements 2 Click on Cancel to close the window 5 EE a DE Lx Ces Kxrite 55
8. the substrate color can be correctly compensated 6 Please enter Ink leftover brown into the window Prepare color 7 Inthe field Available quantity please enter 25 and as unit LE 000 Fu J anepo Docet pecentage ge El m pim p tat E 8 The ink leftover is now saved on the database Quit the process by clicking Close sem Ey Mets Remark This process to enter the ink leftover is not the only Further information provide the online help or the user s manual Kxrite m Formulate with an inh leftover We recalculate the formula Brown by involving the just defined ink leftover First of load the saved formula Brown Menu Formula Load 1 Activate the control Use of ink leftover yes no below on the left side of the main window 2 Menu Formulate Recalculate Remark Recalculate can always be used if the draft color and the substrate keep being unmodified and only the formulating process should be realized again 5 p ED Resin tose Toth 3 In the window Entry of color quantity please activate the control field Restrict ink leftover Click on OK Kxrite 3t 4 In the next
9. SPM In this window you can search and calibrate a connected spectrophotometer Furthermore you can choose the serial interface COM and eventually set the baud rate On the down side of the window you ll find information about the connected device Serial number software version 2 Please leave the window with Close Remark Besides X Rite measuring devices some devices of competitors are supported as well These are listed in the window for the choice of devices 57
10. SSS ES Display of settings Loading of assortment Kxrite Remarks 1 In this description you ll find an overview about the most important functions of the InkFormulation 5 1 2 Our main target is to bring you the main functions a bit closer on the basis of exercises These exercises can be realized without any measurement device The colors which are contained accord to the assortments which will be installed with the new installation 4 The images were created on the basis of the version Manufacturer with all modules Depending on the installed version some symbols or menu items might not be visible This is irrelevant as no special modules were used Trademarks X Rite ColorQualityry and X Rite InkFormulationy are trademarks of X Rite Windows is a registered trademark of the Microsoft Corporation Copyright X Rite All rights reserved Duplicating processing or translating beyond the scope of the copyright arre expressly forbidden without previous written permission Kxrite Description of the toolbar Basic Formula Create a new formula Adjustment Formula Adjust an existing formula Load Formula Retrieve an existing formula Save Save current formula Spectrums Formula in various graphic displays Printing of Formulas Print current loaded formula gt gt Send to dosing system Send current loaded formula to the dosing system Kxrite Formulation Send the formulatio
11. Settings Formulation 1 Menu Settings Formulation a Adjustment of the formula In Addition Mode the adjustment quantities shown as second row in the main menu In Basic formula Mode the adjustment quantities are immediately added to the quantity of the basic formula b Formula edition The available options depend on the printing process and the installed modules Following are possible Printable colors Master colors and dissolvent and Basic material c Control of the coverage only color optimization is the usually used setting Are colors with partial or complete coverage available and was the assortment threaded in by white and black there could be fixed a specific draft regarding the coverage on the basis of another setting d Coat thickness Coloring calibration 100 If there is a difference of the coat thickness between the coloring calibration and the printing process there could be done a general adjustment by an adaption of the percentage values e Furthermore the user has the option to tum off several steps of the formulation You can i e deactivate the window Choice of color 2 Close the window with Cancel Ink nickel colt 112 EE 93 Caim sion abe trai ord eie ege gt ise grey rays Settings Display 1 Menu Settings Display a Formula edition
12. a possible anymore This is not important for our exercise though Kxrite 28 the main window you can see the adjustment quantities in the second row on the right side next to the original quantities The addition of the and adjustment quantity is realized via Add to additional ink quantity This can be done in two different ways Menu Formula Add to additional ink quantity or b By actuating the right mouse button in between the formula window whereby popup window will be opened where you can choose the instruction Add to additional ink quantity 9 Click on Add to additional ink quantity p 2 9 Remark Besides the instruction Add to additional ink quantity you can complete several actions more in the popup window Kxrite dd After adding the adjustment the total of the color quantity the window Formula Adjustment earlier 100 again like we had set in PICO ese owe Remark Basically there are 2 possibilities to realize an adjustment The color will be mixed again with the adjustment quantity In this case you have to choose above procedure or You change an already existing mixture In this case the formula will be printed with the separately indicated adjustment quantities In this case you have to choose the option Existing color quantity instead of Total color quantity in the window Adjustm
13. d click on Choose or double click on the 55 level 5 In the next step you see the window Choice of color You can limit the choice to filter formulas with unwished color components Click on the right side double arrow xrite 44 6 The program now changes to the formula database and lists existing formulas In this list is chromatically arranged and begins with the color with the smallest color distance smallest dE The indicated formula corresponds with our draft The program accordingly calculates a dE Gretag of 0 0 So EN C 3s 3 ERC 1 0 7 Click on the button Search and in the window Show formulas of following folder on All Folders 4 p p Bum Cx me d 8 The search criteria were expanded for the program Therefore there are several formulas shown of folders atoer e UI x ER C 37 p Remark As you can see in the window Search criteria there is the possibility to limit expand the search to Formulas of the current folder Formulas of folders of the current assortment of all assortments Formulas only with contained color limited to one assortment Substate related formulas Only formulas of ink leftovers and base formulas Kxrite 35 Create a substrate It you often u
14. ent of the formula and you have to reduce the quantity by the quantity which was already used for the proof Example Mixture 100g Consumption of proof 150 Existing color quantity 85g Kxrite z 26 10 Save the adjusted formula by clicking the symbol Formula Save 11 Keep the formula name Brown in the appearing window and click on xl NEE TET Dx jos 12 A warning signal shows up with the information that this name is already in use Confirm with Yes So the original formula will be replaced by the adjustment formula 27 1 Menu Database Ink leftovers 2 Click in the window Define ink leftover 0 Suit num Kxrite 3 In the third step you will be asked to define the ink leftover In practice there would be measured only a printed ink leftover Instead of that we load an existing color via ColorNet InkFormulation Default 4 Click on ColorNet and mark the draft Brown Formulas Default Brown Choose Cs Tw Kxrite 28 29 5 Please define the substrate in the next step Choose Substrate of the current assortment and click on OK Remark In the practice the substrate would normally be measured because usually it differs from the assortment substrate For the InkFormulation itis very important to obtain the exact substrate information So
15. ft the blue cross shows the formula Kxrite Comparison of draft and formula on white and black for three different illuminants This aspect gives you a visual impression of the color under three different illuminants with adequate color distance dE 065 D50 and A isplay of the formula under different illumination techniques Display of the behavior by changing the coat thickness Remark The position of the window is not fixed You can remove it while keeping the left mouse button pressed on the blue bar on the upper side of the window By pulling one edge of the window while keeping the mouse button pressed the size can be adjusted bigger or smaller xrite 1 Saving of the color formula 10 In the toolbar click on Formula Save 11 Putin the name brown as formula name into the window and save the formula by clicking Herewith the formulating procedure is finalized and the formula saved It can be printed mixed now ea xrite 18 19 1 Please load the earlier saved formula brown Click therefore on the symbol Formula load 2 Inthe appearing window please double click on brown or mark it and click on Remark In the InkFormulation you basically have two possibilities to choose a color either by marking a color and clicking on choose or by double clicking on the corresponding formula After
16. ns via e mail SPM Connection to the measuring device Switch to ColorQuality Load of the ColorQuality resp switch between ColorQuality and InkFormulation Kxrite settings in the window General Settings Set measuring conditions General settings 1 Menu settings General 2 Please adopt the stored measi 3 Click OK to quit SFPD Tie rese Deere Gt singe Caste aire MP o eiim DO nye a a LES 38 PF an a Remark If you change the language you have to restart the InkFormulation Display of settings O etape Deme Lee EET EO J F shom eee T Fond nodi ena Movi oo dice T Show ory cir octet stranen E Taane 020005 in Diis woe casser E ACC 5 Cal Spare Pi 1 Menu Settings gt Display 2 Please adopt the given settings in the window Display of settings 3 Click OK to quit Kxrite Loading of assortment 1 Click on the up arrow on the left side of assortment 2 Please choose Flexo Gravure incl colorant elements Pol Leneta in the then opening database and click on choose The name of the chosen assortment appears in the main window Remark The item assortment characterizes a database which contains
17. r first created formula Therefore click on Search C 3 Inthe window Search criterion under please enter Brown and click on mum entem ie em To Ban 012 Remark To refine the search you can enter the specific date or period Kxrite 4 4 The window stays empty no formula found change the folder please click the button Folder below on the left side or change the folder via the selected list above on the right side e Seem xs 5 Mark the folder Default 6 Now you can see 2 colors with the character Brown Remark All formulas which contain the searching criteria as character are shown Ce 7 We close the window without choosing the color Click on Cancel Kxrite Search a formula by smallest dE This kind of searching is used before formulating to find formulas which are similar to the formula you want to create 1 Menu Formula Define draft Load 2 Now the color draft has to be measured For our exercise it is sufficient to load a reference of the ColorNet Click on ColorNet 3 To simplify matters we define the 55 level again as draft from Orange to InkFormulation Default Assortments Flexo gravure printing incl colorants elements Pol Leneta 4 Mark the color an
18. se a constant substrate you have the option to save it in the database Instead of measuring the substrate for each formulating process you can load it from the database for the formulation 1 Menu Database Substrate 2 Inthe window Database Substrate click on c ea morte 3 Please enter Own substrate as name Besides the name of the substrate you can indicate the type and the quality of the substrate as well as give information about the surface finish only on uncoated substrates Kxrite 48 4 Choose the option coated for the Quality of the substrate 5 In practice you would measure the substrate For our exercise we load the substrate of ColorNet Click on ColorNet CIIO seA p EC o por 6 For the measurement of the substrate please double click on InkFormulation Default Assortments Flexo gravure printing incl colorants elements 065 Leneta 7 Choose Substrate on white and add it via to Own substrate Repeat this process for the measurement of substrate on black Kxrite 48 8 Finalize the entry for the substrate by clicking on OK C 6 The new substrate appears in a list together with the remaining substrates By closing the window the measurement of the substrate is finished Sho
19. several folders not be visible please double click on the folder above of them 10 11 Deine aace ofthe weaved nae Cose loot 3 The next Step is to define the substrate type of the draft For our exercise please choose coated and click 4 Inthe next step the substrate for our formulation will be announced For our example we choose the option Substrate of the current assortment and click Remark The substrate information is as important as the color to be formulated for the formulating as the program has to account compensate for the color of the substrate in the formulation calculation 12 5 Asfourth Step we can change the thickness of the coating We leave it on 100 and click OK 100 means Irk fim Eje Remark This setting can be conducted in Menu Settings Formulation There is a control integrated to the formulation procedure The window is optional and may be deactivated in the same menu Now the window for the color option appears The available basic colors of the currently loaded assortment Flexo gravure printing incl Colorants elements are listed on the left side of the window 6 Click on the double arrow to bring all colors to the right side Formulation can be done with the colors of the right side Click on Remark You are not forced
20. step you see the window Choice of color On the right side of the window the basic colors of the formula as well as the ink leftover brown are already selected To add the remaining assortment colors please click on the right showing double arrow Ei mes Cea im Le enm Remark The area 0 25 ink leftover indicates that the part of the ink leftover of the existent quantity move between 0 and 2596 The ideal quantity per calculated formula will be established by the program 5 Click on OK to start the formulating process Remark You could have formulated also only with the previous colors plus the ink leftover Since provided all colors the system received a maximum of possibilities Kxrite 33 6 In the window Color choice please click on the downwards arrow As you can see in this case there were only 4 formulas calculated 3 C O Sho ani e best aris w 1 2 Dank 7 Click on OK to adopt the formula Remark By activating the utilization of the ink leftovers the InkFormulation is forced to use at Teast one ink leftover for the formula As consequence an undefined number of calculated formulas can follow as it depends on how good the ink leftover matches to the current color draft Are several ink leftovers available the InkFormulation automatically chooses the best matching ink leftover Kxrite
21. to choose all colors but you can also remove a part of the basic colors to the right window single colors can be chosen by double click or by marking and activating of the right side arrow Please note that that the program may be limited by a selective choice of basic colors in the formulation possibilities Kxrite 19 7 Now the window of the formulation options appears Deactivate the option Show only the best formula with 1 2 3 and 4 components ates J CM 8 In field assorted by click on the upwards arrow There you see the possible sort criteria Choose X Rite Optimum ofthe Remark The X Rite Optimum is a recommended combination of different criteria like Delta E number of components metamerism etc and the criteria are listed by their importance Kxrite 14 The formula appears only in the main window You are not forced to use the first formula Usually you can choose the second or the third because often there are only very few differences between the first three or four formulas regarding the formula performance Please use the ahead aback arrow to choose xrite 1s 16 9 Click Formula Spectra in the toolbar In the window that appears there are drafts and formulas compared in different displays Comparison of the remission curve The red cross in the centre shows the dra
22. uld the substrate information be adopted of the database for future formulas you can click on the option Substrate on the database and arrive directly to the database of the substrate E Om ween DCE ee E Remark The presented possibilities are very comfortable and always guarantee the exact identical substrate values There is no influence exerted on eventual substrate variations though If the quality varies the substrate to be printed should be measured each time Otherwise there can already be incorrect information for the formulation Kxrite Back up a database 1 Menu File Database Save 2 To simplify matters we safe the backup on the desktop Keep the name dbit itbx ee ick on Save All data Formulas assortments substrates etc have a back up in only one file Remark As a matter of course the name of the backup can be change according to the user requirement For security reasons the backups should be saved on an extemal medium or on a network drive which gets a regular back up itself as well The backups should be created on a regular basis Le weekly Kxrite Restore a database 1 Menu File Database Restore 2 Mark just saved backup dbif ifbx and click on Open mesi 3 In the window Restore database please choose
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