You don’t have to be a colour management guru to get great prints.
ImagePrint is a complete printing solution right out of the box.

ImagePrint 8 is now released.

• Includes 27,000 Profiles for over 400 Different Papers
• Personalized Technical Support
• Phatte Black Option
• Available for Mac OSX 10.4/10.5/10.6 and Windows 2000/XP/Vista/Windows 7
• NEW Support for Epson 7900 and 9900
• NEW Support for Epson 3880
• Built-In Profiles – Forget about linearization curves and endless hours profiling your printer by trial and error. Each of our built-in profiles includes 5 color temperatures that will give you better than custom results and we include them free of charge with every copy of ImagePrint. In most cases, we’ll even profile your favorite paper at no additional charge if we don’t already have one that will work for you.
• ICC Compliant – ImagePrint is fully compliant with the ICC standard.
• Easy to Learn – Every ImagePrint package ships with a Quick Start guide to get you set up and printing fast. For more in-depth coverage of the tools that will make your investment pay off, each CD includes a comprehensive User’s Manual and guided tutorial that walks you through every aspect of the ImagePrint package. We’ve even included a special section on the best approach when working with Photoshop files, and making the right color management choices.
• Repeatable Results – Fine Art print makers need to print a wide variety of image content on a wide variety of media. ImagePrint shortens the time it takes to get the print right the first time and then makes it easy for you to repeat the process over and over again by automatically keeping a record of how the job was printed. This technology is your assurance that the finished print will look the same on the one hundredth copy as it looked on the first.
• Mac/Windows Networks – ImagePrint is the only advanced printing environment that is both Windows and OSX compatible. You’re free to install ImagePrint on an unlimited number of computers, and feel free to mix it up with both OSX and Windows machines. ImagePrint works as a print server in mixed network environments where both Mac and Windows exist side-by-side making it the perfect solution for creative groups that share a single printer resource .
• Drag and Drop File Browser – It couldn’t be easier to load images into ImagePrint. Our integrated file browser shows you thumbnails of your images, so all you do is drag, drop and you’re done.
• B/W Dark Room Effects – ImagePrint duplicates traditional dark room techniques like Selenium and Sepia toning on warm, cool and neutral papers. Advanced image adjustment tools include Split-Toning and Reverse Sepia and Selenium. Use our exclusive Tint Picker tool to enhance gray scale images from warm to cool, moss to mauve and all points in between – without changing your ink set. No more annoying hue shifts from highlights to shadows that plague monochrome printing just seamless tonal transitions with no loss of detail.
• Phatte Black Option – Phatte Black is an ImagePrint exclusive. It gives you the option to maintain matte black and photo black inks in your Epson 4800, 7800 or 9800 printer, rather than swapping them out. With the Phatte Black option, the light-light black cartridge is replaced with a specially programmed matte black cartridge. Prints made with Phatte Black show virtually no difference when compared with prints made with the standard configuration. Using Phatte Black is totally optional, and the standard configuration of K3 inks is fully supported. In fact, users can switch between Phatte and LLK cartridges at any time, using less ink then a standard matte black/photo black purge.
• Advanced Screening – No grain, no patterns, no visible artifacts on your prints. Our screening technology is second to none. ImagePrint delivers perfectly smooth transitions in skin tones, shadow areas and other hard to reproduce transitions.
• AutoPrint Hot Folders – The AutoPrint utility saves you time and media by grouping files together for batch printing through the Hot Folder. An indispensable tool for any digital work flow. The unique Drag and Drop shortcut lets you customize job settings as images are added to the Hot Folder. Improved functionality now enables AutoPrint to smoothly integrate with our package printing feature. You choose how many copies you want to print and which template(s) to apply. You can even customize the cropping of an image within the template frame. AutoPrint lets you customize a ‘hands free’ workflow to suit your individual printing needs.
• Queue Manager – ImagePrint’s queue manager puts you in full control of ALL your print jobs. View job status, reprioritize jobs, reprint jobs, and edit print jobs. Queue manager gives you access to jobs running on multiple computers and multiple printers.
• Rebuild Layouts – The spooling interface in ImagePrint keeps track of all your printed jobs and allows you to instantly reprint them. Everything about the job, including the page layout and profiles used will be set back up in ImagePrint. You then have the option to modify the job any way you see fit and reprint it.
• Workflow Options- Depending on your workflow needs, you may prefer to print directly from Photoshop or InDesign rather than the ImagePrint interface. Our inexpensive Print-Through-Application option lets you print from any other application right to our spooling system. Easy.
• Embedded Profile Management – ImagePrint automatically detects embedded image profiles found in JPG and TIF files. You then have the choice of using the embedded profile or selecting our preferred default profile.
• Free Email Support – Beginning with Version 7, email support is included for the life of each version, or one year from date of purchase, whichever is longer.
• Money Back Guarantee – How do you put into words something as subjective as “easy” or “quality”? We try our best but, dare we say it, “A picture is worth a thousand words.” So we invite you to buy ImagePrint and try it yourself.

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VisualCut is Caldera’s solution to directly drive cut machines (it is physically linked to the PC or MAC).

The VisualCut application is used after printing:

• concerns all types of roll cutters: Graphtec, Summa, Mimaki, Mutoh, Roland
• concerns the cut tables Zund with the Caldera “edge sensor”.

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A fully redesigned and upgraded cost management tool.

Is your production really making a profit? CostView 2.0 is a fully integrated production management tool which extracts information about jobs directly from the RIP spooler, thus enabling a production manager to control, modify, study and export all costs pertaining to a job.

All the necessary tools for an optimized and fully controlled production are at hand, ready to use through an ergonomic Graphic User Interface.

CostView 2.0 is positioned to be the ultimate dashboard for a manager sensitive to production costs. With this module you can calculate all costs pertaining to a job: printing costs, finishing, shipping, machine amortization or other overhead costs. At the end of the day you can export your job listing with all relevant costs as a spreadsheet ready for further analysis.

Any production manager can:

• View all jobs in the spooler
• Monitor ink and media costs
• Add optional or automatic costs to each job
• Update client information.

Its webdriven interface can be accessed by any user in your company network using a simple web browser. The added value of CostView 2.0 is being able to fully monitor production costs in order to improve your business profitability.

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CopyRip is a powerful and easy to use desktop RIP solution which delivers all the features you need to print professionnally.

Discover Caldera’s intuitive interface and super fast prefight and preview features. CopyRip enables you to quickly crop, rotate, resize and color enhance the document before printing. Whether used for processing PostScript, PDF or raster files, CopyRip delivers high quality output with its powerful ICC compliant RIP engine.

CopyRip also includes Step & Repeat and Nest-O-Matik™ features that will automatically optimize your media usage. With it’s Super Spooler, you get live control and simultaneous access to your files in process, on any driven printer. Stop, release, reorder, change the number of copies of any job in real time, on your workstation or using a remote web browser.

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VisualRip+ is Caldera’s software solution for professional large format Print and Print-to-Cut workflow.

This solution is the ideal RIP tool for printing wide format jobs with eye catching colours and contrast. VisualRip+ supports in standard major printer manufacturers such as Xerox, Canon, Epson, HP, Seiko, Mimaki, Mutoh, Roland, Kodak/Encad, Océ, Colourspan, etc.

VisualRip+ adds two major components to VisualRip:

• Layout with Compose, which lets you lay out multiple file elements to create a single job.
• Tiling, which enables you to split up documents in various strips for big format jobs.
• Caldera enables you to RIP a second file while you RIP and print another job at the same time.
• You can print and RIP while preparing, layouting, nesting, colour matching… other jobs to be sent on printers.
• Automatic file capture in dedicated folders for workflow printing tasks.
• Enables to see all jobs on all printers (directly or indirectly connected to RIP servers) from one central spooler.
• Sophisticated preflight and preview of all jobs before printing.
• Automatic detection of spot colours with full rendering simulation based on media profiles.
• Automatically positions files across the roll or sheet for media and ink optimisation.
• Sophisticated automatic feature to repeat files on a page. File is RIPed only once.
• Split up documents in various strips for big format jobs.
• Merge, nest, stitch, rotate and combine different file formats, with manual or numeric positioning.
• Place marks on the tiles, add eyelets, stitch, fold or and place margin mark.
• Overprint white on coloured medias or to make colours stronger.

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VisualRip is Caldera’s software solution for professional large format Print and Print-to-Cut workflow.

This solution is the ideal RIP tool for printing wide format jobs with eye catching colours and contrast.

VisualRip also includes Spot Colours, ICC support, Task automation, RIP PS/PDF, SuperSpooler, Raster File-to-Print and Fotoba digitrim features.

Caldera enables you to RIP a second file while you RIP and print another job at the same time.

You can print and RIP while preparing, layouting, nesting, colour matching… other jobs to be sent on printers

Automatic file capture in dedicated folders for workflow printing tasks.

Enable to see all jobs on all printers (directly or indirectly connected to RIP servers) from one central spooler.

Sophisticated preflight and preview of all jobs before printing.

Automatic detection of spot colours with full rendering simulation based on media profiles.

Automatically positions files across the roll or sheet for media and ink optimisation.

Sophisticated automatic feature to repeat files on a page. File is RIPed only once.

Split up documents in various strips for big format jobs.

Merge, nest, stitch, rotate and combine different file formats, with manual or numeric positioning.

Place marks on the tiles, add eyelets, stitch, fold or and place margin mark.

Overprint white on coloured medias or to make colours stronger.

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Print to Industry Standards!

Quality, consistency and reliability are essential for competing in today’s printing industry. And, as the industry becomes more process oriented and standards continue to increase, color control is vital in every step of the production process. To meet these challenging demands, you need a tool that removes the guesswork and provides the facts you need for color decisions.

ORIS Certified Press provides the information necessary to guarantee the color consistency and reliability your customers demand. Simply put, ORIS Certified Press is the ideal press quality assurance system enabling you to print to industry standards – quickly and efficiently. The end result? Improved quality, new efficiencies and increased customer loyalty.

ORIS Certified Press provides the graphic arts market – including ad agencies, print buyers, color separators and printers – with a measurement tool designed to evaluate the printing press in a comprehensive, yet easy-to-understand report. With ORIS Certified Press you can quickly analyze uniformity across the press sheet and in the press direction; tone value increase; primary and secondary colors; and grey balance. Additionally, ORIS Certified Press provides control of spot colors. Variations in press parameters can be instantly spotted and corrected to ensure the press is running to standard, while at the same time, prevent waste and costly mistakes.

With ORIS Certified Press control strips are designed small enough that they can be read with common hand-held scanners. Individual control strips can also be used and spot colors can be measured in single patches or strips – being compared to the pre-loaded spot color libraries from Pantone and HKS. All measurements are secure and can be used for trend analysis, allowing you to monitor color quality and detect color drifts over the entire print run and over any period of time. ORIS Certified Press along with ORIS Certified Proof and ORIS Certified Monitor completes ORIS Certified Suite, providing simple, trackable proof output measurement using “pass-fail” reports to accurately comply with SWOP, FOGRA, 3DAP, GRACoL and other standards. ORIS Certified Suite can be used for any hardcopy or virtual proof or press sheet, regardless of the system or software that was used to create colourcorp.dev.co.za/it.ORIS Certified Press along with ORIS Certified Proof and ORIS Certified Monitor completes ORIS Certified Suite, providing simple, trackable proof output measurement using “pass-fail” reports to accurately comply with SWOP, FOGRA, 3DAP, GRACoL and other standards. ORIS Certified Suite can be used for any hardcopy or virtual proof or press sheet, regardless of the system or software that was used to create it.

The Benefits of Using ORIS Certified Press

• As with any investment, the value of ORIS Certified Press provides substantial benefits to the graphic arts market including:
• Improved operational efficiencies with easy-to-use press reports that quickly provide information on deviations during the press run
• Simple “pass-fail” approach to industry standards compliance
• Significant error reduction due to early detection of problems
• Increased reliability and faster decision making due to the ability to track performance and trends in press condition over the job or over time
• Increased customer loyalty due to reliability and consistency of color production process
• Decreased waste and costly re-makes.

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Power Tools for Printers!

ORIS PDF Tuner is a full editing environment for PDF and PostScript files. It can open customer-supplied files, allow for a full range of last-minute corrections, and output print-ready pages in all major file formats. ORIS PDF Tuner provides a complete array of page editing and creation tools, including image retouching, linework and text editing and full control over print-related page and object attributes.

No more customer file headaches!

Adobe’s Portable Document Format (PDF) is rapidly becoming the “standard” for submitting files for print. However, as customer choices for PDF creation become more complex, the potential for costly errors increases. ORIS PDF Tuner is the cost-effective way to fix customer-supplied files – quickly and accurately creating print-ready files, including PDF/X-1a and PDF/X-3.

ORIS PDF Tuner (formerly ORIS Page) is the world’s most powerful page editing environment for PDF and PostScript files. Offering a full range of editing tools, ORIS gives you full control over text, fonts, color, overprinting and even complex image retouching and transparency effects. No other PDF environment gives you this level of power to control customer-supplied files, and reduce costs associated with file-related errors and production delays.

ORIS PDF Tuner Benefits

• Reduce operational costs and billing disputes resulting from improperly created PDF or PostScript files, or files that fail to RIP or print correctly.
• Save time, money and customer good will involving last-minute file changes and corrections.
• Enhance print quality and efficiency by making sure your customer’s jobs RIP and print correctly – the first time!

ORIS PDF Tuner Features

• Open any PDF or PostScript file, or create a new layout, in ORIS DDP format.
• Edit any text, or make font and style changes.
• Correct overprint problems, convert CMYK drop shadows to black-only, create soft-edged image vignettes, retouch images, and accurately convert RGB, Lab and other color spaces to CMYK.
• Apply comprehensive ICC color management to match display and final print output (optional).
• Automatically trap files (optional).
• Output print-ready files to PostScript, DCS and other common formats – or to PDF, PDF/X-1a or PDF/X-3, using Acrobat Distiller.
• Output print-ready files to Scitex or TIFF/IT-P1 formats (optional).
• Integrate with ORIS Works automated workflows and the ORIS Color Tuner proofing system.
• Available for Microsoft Windows (2000, XP and 2003) and Apple Mac OS X.

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Automatic file conversion

The complexity of digital file formats is a major source of inefficiency for printers, service providers and print buyers. Both digital presses and CTP systems use a confusing array of PostScript and PDF RIPs, which do not always handle every format. Some systems prefer one file format over another, and older, outdated RIPs can create havoc for those who simply want their job printed! For all of these issues, ORIS Normalizer is the answer. Whether used in connection with Press Matcher or Ink Saver, or as a standalone process, Normalizer automates the file conversion process, saving on operational costs and greatly reducing output errors and related billing disputes.

ORIS Normalizer uses network-shared hotfolders to process digital files, in all major prepress formats. Color management may be applied, using Press Matcher or Ink Saver, and new files are generated in the desired format and automatically sent to the desired printing facility. Both composite and separated file output is supported. Normalizer can create industry-standard formats, such as DCS, PDF/X and TIFF/IT, as well as proprietary Scitex formats. Older RIPs are also supported, with ORIS’ ability to create flat PostScript and PDF. Automatic preflight is included, as well as automatic FTP, and easy integration with third-party file transfer and job ticketing systems. As with other ORIS Color Tuner PLUS! workflows, remote, contract quality proofs may also be sent along with the high-resolution files.

ORIS Normalizer Benefits

• Supports both composite and separated digital file formats
• Supports industry standards: PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-3 and TIFF/IT
• Supports proprietary file formats, including Scitex
• Automatic preflight
• Creates print-ready, color managed pages or signatures
• Supports multiple print locations, even those with outdated RIPs
• Eliminates manual file editing; avoids disputes over file/RIP issues

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Automatic, Color-Managed Ink and Toner Reduction!

In most printing companies, the cost of printing inks or toners is a significant part of the total cost of printing. Additionally, color separations produced by different repro suppliers can lead to instability in grey balance on the press when the complete job is printed. ORIS Ink Saver is based on award-winning CGS color management technology and our advanced 4D gamut mapping algorithms for color-managed, intelligent ink reduction. In a one-step, automatic process, ORIS Ink Saver significantly reduces the CMY components for all printed elements, and optimizes the black separation – while maintaining visual and colorimetric integrity.

ORIS Ink Saver goes far beyond ordinary Gray Component Replacement (GCR) and Under Color Removal (UCR). CGS’ advanced algorithms process linework as well as image data, using a true CMYK-to-CMYK process to match the true color appearance of the final piece. The process is also fully automated, using network hotfolders. Once the optimum ink reduction level has been achieved, files are simply dropped into the appropriate hotfolder and sent on to the RIP.

ORIS Ink Saver Benefits
The benefits of using ORIS Ink Saver go beyond the cost savings in CMY ink or toner – although these are significant (up to 25%). This is especially important for medium and large volume printing plants with a high volume of process ink usage. The additional benefits include:

• A more stable gray axis, providing better press stability, superior color representation, easier press control and reduced makeready time
• Faster ink drying time, resulting in improvements in run performance and printing speed
• Reduced total ink coverage with less print-through, resulting in the ability to print on lower weight paper, with significant savings in postal costs.

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Color Manage Once; Output Many.

Color is essential to a successful print marketing campaign. Pleasing, eye-catching and brand-recognizable color may mean the difference between success and failure. With so many different printing choices, however, consistent color is not always easy. Conventional press output may vary, if multiple presses and locations are used. Short-run digital press output often varies widely from conventional offset. Even two identical digital presses – or two identical wide format printers or digital copiers – may produce two different-looking versions of the same job! The answer to this color dilemma is ORIS Press Matcher™.

ORIS Press Matcher uses the color management technology of ORIS Color Tuner, CGS’ award-winning contract proofing system, to produce high-resolution files for your CTP system, digital press, wide-format printer or any other device. The results are standardized color across multiple platforms – bringing high-quality, consistent color to all your print projects, regardless of how or where they are printed!

Any digital press… any conventional press… any wide format printer… same color results!

ORIS Press Matcher is ideal for maintaining color consistency among multiple digital presses or between your conventional and digital presses. It can also be used to color manage wide format output, so your customer’s signage and point-of-sale materials remain color-consistent with offset or gravure printed collateral.

Because every printing environment is unique, we recommend that you contact us to discuss a custom solution.

ORIS Press Matcher uses hotfolders to automatically transport and process digital files from any Windows or Mac OS computer on the network. Each hotfolder can be configured to handle the color requirements of a particular RIP or output device. Automatic FTP, email notifications and many other workflow features are standard. Ink or toner optimization is available as an option, via ORIS Ink Saver. Automatic file format conversion is available via ORIS Normalizer.

ORIS Press Matcher Benefits

• Uniform, reliable color management provides new business opportunities and business retention with customers whose print requirements include multiple devices or locations – without loss of quality.
• ORIS’ automatic, hotfolder-based workflow means increased operational efficiency, providing color consistency without the need for manual file editing.
• RIP-ready files result in significantly increased processing speeds and fewer output errors in your CTP or digital press environment.
• ORIS Press Matcher is a powerful extension of ORIS Color Tuner, which provides efficient, integrated contract proofing, on site or at any remote location.

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Color Facts, Not Guesswork!

In any graphic arts business, color quality and consistency are much too valuable to be left to chance. Subjective evaluation is becoming increasingly expensive – in expert labor cost, in lost time, and in potential lost revenue over billing disputes. As printing becomes more process-oriented, color control must become a reliable, measurement-based Quality Assurance (QA) process.

Fortunately, ORIS Certified Proof provides the ideal QA platform for all your color output, from contract proofs to on-screen “virtual” proofs to final press output. Using simple, handheld spectral measuring devices, the software provides simple, trackable results for every proof you produce. From simple “pass-fail” reports to practical, detailed analyses, ORIS Certified Proof removes subjective guesswork from the process, and provides a factual basis for color decisions. Your graphic arts business business will be more efficient, and your customers’ confidence (and repeat business) will increase.

The keys to a good QA system are accuracy and ease of use. ORIS Certified Proof provides both. The system includes test targets and color characterization data for TR001 (SWOP) and FOGRA, and can easily be configured to measure any other standard or specification. The target – a strip containing the critical color patches – is printed in the margin of the contract proof, regardless of what proofing system is used. For each proof, the operator scans the target, and the software does the rest.

ORIS Certified Proof is not limited to proofing and spectral color (Lab) values. The software also measures density values, which allows the user to check press sheet quality and control dot gain. In addition, users can also check the quality of monitor calibrations and profiles, by measuring specific colors displayed on screen.

The Benefits of Using ORIS Certified Proof

• As with any investment, the value of ORIS Certified Proof is in cost savings and revenue enhancement. The system provides both advantages, including:
• Increased operational efficiency from ORIS’ fast, automatic proof checking workflow, and its simple “pass-fail” approach to standards compliance.
• Lower labor costs and a faster approval process realized by reducing the dependence on subjective color evaluation by publishers, advertisers, prepress shops and printers.
• Significant error reduction based on early detection of potential equipment failures, color drift, incorrect paper usage, improper profiles, etc.
• Increased reliability of both systems and personnel, thanks to the system’s ability to track performance over time, by identifying specific equipment, operators and color requirements.
• Increased customer confidence in the reliability and consistency of the color production process. This results in more repeat business as well as new business opportunities.

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How do you embrace virtual proofing without the risk?

Improve quality and productivity while increasing customer loyalty and ROI with the industry’s only integrated hard and soft proofing solution – ORIS Hybrid Proofing ™. Through the integration of two industry-leading products, ORIS Color Tuner and ORIS Soft Proof, CGS provides the ultimate flexibility in color proofing technology.

With the complexities of the production supply chain, flexibility is critical to remain competitive in today’s graphic arts environment. ORIS Hybrid Proofing provides that flexibility, with the ability to deliver any proof your customers demand – from one solution. By creating a parallel color managed workflow for ORIS hard proofing and soft proofing technology, ORIS Hybrid Proofing will optimize production and increase quality to save you time and money.

With new industry standards, complex workflow processes and rising pressures to increase throughput, color quality can suffer. Overcoming these challenges requires a solution that provides:

• Color consistency
• Color verification
• Flexibility of delivery
• System simplicity

The Solution is ORIS Hybrid Proofing™

• Flexibility: CGS provides the only solution with hard and soft proof technology integration to create proofing options based on customer need – without the cost, management and inconsistencies of maintaining two separate systems.
• Speed: The proofing process is streamlined through the integration of hard and soft proofing, enabling efficiencies in the production process.
• Color Management Control: Through an integrated system, color management is guaranteed regardless of the type of proof, meeting SWOP and GRACoL standards.
• Proofing Efficiency: ORIS soft proofing technology is integrated with Acrobat 8, which can be utilized as viewing engine and collaboration tool; Photoshop users have the option to run the graphics program simultaneously only with ORIS Hybrid Proof.

Cost Savings: ORIS virtual proofing technology decreases – and in some cases eliminates – shipping and media costs through its digital production capability.

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Virtual Proofs; Real Results!

As print production becomes more distributed globally, and as deadline pressures continue to tighten, print designers and producers need a practical, integrated approach to color collaboration and approval. Hard copy proofing, the most reliable means of assuring contract quality color, must be combined with the speed and convenience of display-based approval systems. The answer to this problem is ORIS Soft Proof.

ORIS Soft Proof uses the same professional color management engine as ORIS Color Tuner – technology that made the system the first of its kind to be certified by SWOP, FOGRA, PPA and 3DAP, as well as winner of the 2003 GATF InterTech Award for innovation. By using a common framework for both hard and soft proofs, and by maintaining a link between the two, ORIS provides a “best of both worlds” approach to collaborative color workflow.

The workflow is simple, and very effective. ORIS Hotfolder Manager (which ships with Color Tuner for Windows) automatically generates a color matched PDF/X-3 file, and sends it to a predefined location. Email notification is a standard part of the system. At the same time, a hard proof file is also created, and is placed in a “hold” location, for optional, on-demand output by the person viewing the soft proof.

The PDF/X soft proof can be viewed by anyone, using Adobe Acrobat (Professional or Standard). Acrobat’s powerful color measurement and annotation tools can be used at any time to record user feedback, and legally-binding digital signatures may be attached to the file. The annotation tools may be used locally, or as part of a collaborative, online review process. The ORIS plugin is used to verify the file’s status (namely, was it created by ORIS, and to the required color standard) and whether color management status and the display profile is correct. There is also an ORIS Soft Proof stamp, which records the current color status (approved or rejected) as well as the date and user ID, as a trackable Acrobat annotation.

The ORIS plugin serves another very important function: on-demand hard copy output. Even when display-based review is used, any user may output the current version of the job at any time, at contract quality, using the ORIS Digital Proofing System.

Unlike proprietary soft proofing systems, ORIS Soft Proof does not require a “per-click” or “per-job” fee. Viewing is unlimited, and is designed to fit any standard, Acrobat-based review process. Monitor calibration of high-quality displays can easily be done, using low-cost hardward and software from companies like GretagMacbeth and X-Rite, and the monitor profiles are automatically read and verified by the ORIS plugin.

The ORIS approach to soft proofing is beneficial to graphic arts businesses in many ways. Commercial printers can use a combination of ORIS Soft Proof and a remote copy of ORIS Color Tuner Light to provide better service, and much faster turnaround, for their key customers. Because the ORIS solution uses Adobe Acrobat, packaging and label printers can easily incorporate it into their digital review process – for brand managers, prepress companies and printers, in different cities or countries.

Publishers will also benefit from the ORIS approach. Magazines and their advertisers will enjoy shorter, more efficient review cycles, without losing the ability to produce reliable, contract quality hard copy proofs at any point in the process, at any location in the world! Catalog publishers will also increase efficiency during the design and production process, no matter where the catalog is produced or printed. Publication printers can also use ORIS for integrated soft and hard copy proofing, of single pages or whole signatures, to improve their operational efficiency and retain their key customer’s confidence.

ORIS Soft Proof is part of a powerful new color-managed workflow system from CGS: ORIS Color Tuner PLUS! This includes options for color managed, high-resolution output for any digital press or CTP system, as well as automatic GCR/UCR and file conversion. When combined with the flexibility and efficiency of ORIS Soft Proof, these workflow options will make your business truly competitive in the global graphic enterprise.

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Perfect Proofs Every Time!

ORIS Color Tuner™ is the world’s premier professional contract proofing system for inkjet devices from Canon, Epson, HP and other manufacturers.

Version 5.2 includes Setup Wizards, automatic device calibration, accurate spot color simulation and much more. The award-winning software is part of the ORIS Digital Proofing System™ — which also includes proofing system ink and paper. Users simply print or drag-and-drop files to pre-configured hotfolders, and the system automatically matches any desired press condition using affordable, high-speed inkjet technology.

The ORIS Digital Proofing System™

ORIS Color Tuner is much more than an inkjet RIP. It is a complete proofing system, combining automation, color management, high-speed output and proofing-specific ink and paper. With ORIS, you can create contract quality proofs on affordable inkjet devices.

Winner of the GATF InterTech Award, ORIS Color Tuner was the first system of its kind to be SWOP- and FOGRA-certified (and PPA-accredited) for Epson and Canon devices. Its features include a Setup Wizard, automatic color matching and automatic printer calibration (AutoCal™), so anyone — not just color gurus! — can easily calibrate a proofer. It also has selective color correction (fine tuning) to adjust for inherent inkjet behavior, as well as independent spot color handling and support for Hexachrome®, for true proof accuracy in commercial printing and packaging environments.

CGS proofing papers provide maximum proof accuracy and consistency over time. Multiple printers can be handled from a single system, and color-accurate imposition proofing is included.

ORIS has a ScreenDot™ option for color-accurate screened proofs. It also accepts all major digital file formats, making it ideal for any prepress system. An integrated ORIS Soft Proof™ option and a Mac OS X “Personal Edition” make ORIS Color Tuner the perfect environment for remote proofing at agency and print buyer sites.

ORISPROOF™ Benefits

• Significantly lower cost-per-proof, compared with analog or so-called “high-end” digital proofs
• Consistently accurate color, using ORIS’ exclusive fine tuning, AutoCal™, qualified ink and CGS proofing paper
• High-speed, efficient throughput, reducing the amount of valuable time spent on proofing
• Lower integration costs, thanks to ORIS’ compatibility with major workflow systems and digital file formats
• Lower labor costs, thanks to ORIS’ new Setup Wizard and automatic device calibration — which can be done quickly, even by non-experts
• New business opportunities, made possible by ORIS’ support for Hexachrome® and custom color proofing

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