Density Control

The KODAK APPROVAL Digital Color Imaging System's ability to produce and adjust true halftone dots gives the system—and your customers—a great advantage. But as we all know, replicating press parameters is more than a matter of dots. It's density, too.

The KODAK APPROVAL System is the only halftone digital color proofing system that gives you density control. The image production process of the APPROVAL System benefits from our authoritative knowledge of colorants, carefully chosen and produced to replicate standard process inks. Our colorant technology enables the user to adjust the amount of color in precise amounts, producing exactly the dots, lines and density desired. Combined with the system's ability to adjust dot gain, this capability gives you full, predictable control over the final image in a way that allows you to match the press.

Other proofing processes may force you to manipulate color using methods that are different than those used in printing systems. The APPROVAL XP System allows participants in the production flow to identify the specific tonal areas that must be manipulated, and communicate them precisely with such comments as “Reduce the cyan 5% in the 3-4 tones.”  When calibrating the APPROVAL System, dot gain can be adjusted in 1% increments throughout the scale. You can adjust solid area densities in .025 increments as well. The ability to control density also gives you the ability to zero in on your existing printing system as well as on a variety of industry color standards. So you can be sure that multiple proofs - even those produced in different locations or made weeks apart - will match.

Value

The KODAK APPROVAL XP Digital Color Imaging System excels at owner satisfaction by delivering excellent economic value in addition to astounding accuracy and speed. Many competitive proofing systems don't include in their base price all the equipment necessary to deliver the quality and productivity you expect. And using that equipment generally requires greater operator intervention at every step.

Features and Benefits for Print

• Reliable contract proofs mean your presses will be running more, and you’ll need to stop them less
• Minimizing make-goods or reprints due to color matching problems
• Keeping on your press schedules
• Consistent proofs that reduce in-line color compromises
• Shorter make-ready
• Fewer plate re-makes
• Proofing without dirt or voids, for more efficient proof production, a better impression of you, and faster customer approval
• Color control to fine-tune to your printing conditions

Design, Agency and Prepress Features and Benefits

• Confidence that the proof will match the printed piece
• Consistency, for a press run with fewer in-line compromises
• Fidelity so good you may not need to go on-press
• Wide range of user-defined special colors
• Seeing the proof on almost any printing stock
• Speed to the finished piece

HQ Selective Color Edit

For superior color-matching control.

The KODAK APPROVAL HQ Selective Color Edit System is an easy-to-use set of tools and techniques for adjusting the color balance of specific color zones. Using this plug-in module, you can fine-tune the color match to a specific printing system, beyond the already Excellent match that the dot gain manager provides.

Features and Benefits

• KODAK Custom Color ICC Software for creation of ICC profiles
• HARLEQUIN ICC Profile Processor tools required Tools required
• ADOBE PHOTOSHOP Software, Version 4.0 or Version 5.0 (for MACINTOSH systems)
• Custom Color Software ICC installed. This software installs the CD as a PHOTOSHOP Plug-in. Follow the instructions provided with the software.
• Color target file loaded. The recommended color target is the familiar CALR target that is available on Custom Color Software ICC installation CD.
• HIPP enabled. At the RIP, the HARLEQUIN ICC Profile Processor (HIPP) enables you to apply the ICC device link profile you create. This software is separately password-enabled.
• KODAK APPROVAL System HQ-1 RIP Version 45R1C.

Productivity

Speed is just one of the many ways the KODAK APPROVAL Digital Color Imaging System contributes to your output and profitability. You'll also see cost and efficiency benefits from its repeatability, exceptional versatility, modest physical requirements and minimal need for personnel. Whether your operation is local or spread out around the world, the system's consistency, practicality and performance can add capabilities to your plant and profits to your bottom line.

The APPROVAL System is the fastest device in its category at a sustained end-to-end rate of sixteen 4-color pages per hour. Spot colors using Recipe Color Software may take longer to image in order to accurately image traps.

• Easy to do things right
• Incredibly flexible
• A consistent winner
• Fits easily into your operation

ScatterProof

For maximum use of proofing material on every proof.

Now, using the ScatterProof application, you can conveniently proof several electronic files on a single proof made with the KODAK APPROVAL Digital Color Imaging System. So, you will get the maximum use of proofing materials on every proof.

KODAK APPROVAL System ScatterProof is specially designed to create scatter proof layouts for PostScript workflows. It is used before the RIP to prepare a single PostScript file from several independent files. On a MACINTOSH, ScatterProof is seen as a Chooser level printer, which allows you to print from your application directly to the proofing flat. The software also accepts the following input file formats: Composite PostScript, Preseparated PostScript, EPS (ASCII, binary, or JPEG), DCS, PDF, TIFF/IT-P1, TIFF, native SCITEX CT and SCITEX HANDSHAKE CT.

Features and Benefits

• Automatic or interactive positioning
• Automatic generation of view files
• Automatic crop marks for individual elements
• Control stripper element
• Step-and-repeat mode
• Preview function
• With appropriate networking software, multiple hot folders can be established for different page set-ups to facilitate unattended operation
• Screening set-up (frequency, screen angles, spot function, dot gain)
• Published as a MACINTOSH Chooser level printer
• Automatic progress log indicates successful layout of the flat
• Multi-Page PostScript

Consistency and Confidence

For more than a decade, the KODAK APPROVAL XP Digital Color Imaging System has been accepted worldwide as the most consistent in the industry. This heritage continues as the KODAK APPROVAL System consistently provides greater precision and reliability.

It does precisely what you want it to do. The KODAK APPROVAL Digital Color Imaging System virtually eliminates the variables associated with film-based proofing methods. The system allows the important press parameters to be considered and, being digital, allows you to input them precisely. Just as important, the KODAK APPROVAL Digital Color Imaging System assures you consistency day-in and day-out. From job to job, you can be confident that the proof you see is based on the parameters you want.

Open Front End

Our Open Front End (OFE) interface ensures our equipment accommodates and supports you and the way you do business. What's more, set-up is intuitively easy and operation is fully automated - the system is designed to run unattended, even throughout the night.

And, KODAK Recipe Color Software can be implemented by RIP vendors through our open front-end interface, without requiring special media. You can use the same file that you sent to your imagesetter or platesetter.