The establishment of digital proofing personalized service

After the printing company successfully adopts the digital proofing technology to achieve actual proofing production, the user shifts from the initial phase of merely proofing the output of the document to how to satisfy the performance of some personalized content, resulting in the realization of more difficult personalization of digital proofing. service. Therefore, how to build a personalized solution for digital proofing based on the functions of existing digital proofing software is an urgent problem to be solved by technical service providers and users.

The performance of user's personalized demand

In the current domestic production environment, the following aspects are now available.

1, proofs and labels

Signs and callouts are an expression of the user’s pursuit of corporate image construction. They can provide the final image sign for each customer who wishes to have their own company logo, and can also automatically indicate some tips on the proofs with eye-catching text. Production management personnel and operator's job number, etc.

2. Pre-proofing and preview

Some design and production departments need proofreading of text and image colors before the output wars. The documents that need to be proofed are first processed by digital proofing software and converted into PDF or JPEG files that can be transmitted over the network. Customers pass through the remote terminal. You can see digital proofing and printing afterwards without leaving home. In addition, when the user first uses, it can also preview the processed files according to the input correction screen and the printed ICC characteristic curve, and the high-resolution preview job file can predict the proofing results.

3. double print

In the short-run, fast-printing industry, where color quality requirements are increasingly demanding, the advantages of using the advantages of fast color printing with a color laser printer are the ability to print simple monochrome or single-sided four-color printing and double-sided four-color printing.

4. Print proofs of the box

In the packaging and printing industry, resolving packaging-like problems is a key issue for companies. Therefore, packaging companies adopting digital proofing to make packaging boxes is a manifestation of their competitiveness. It not only requires that the documents be printed on matt photo paper, and then printed on the printed card paper, folded into boxes for approval to the user, also requires digital proofing, can be printed on imitation paper, folded directly into color quality stable. High-efficiency packaging boxes are provided for end-user acceptance.

5. Spot color and single clip color

In the gravure printing industry, when designing and producing images, it is customary to use CMYK to create spot colors in Photoshop software. In the case of traditional proofing, for different color versions, only spot color inks need to be formulated for proofing. However, digital proofing software only has the ability to identify CMYK four-color files. Therefore, the digital proofing software must establish different proofing relationships between the CMYK color version and the spot color, which can provide users with personalized requirements such as single clip color proofs.

Digital proofing personalized service solutions

In the process of establishing a digital proofing personalized service solution, it is first necessary to analyze whether digital proofing can directly print four color samples, but also through what kind of technical configuration to achieve various personalized features of traditional proofing or printing, so that users are very Easily realize the production of existing product samples. Therefore, the key to establishing a digital proofing personalized service solution is as follows.

1. Understand the content of existing personalized requirements

The content of user's personalized requirements mainly comes from how to use the digital proofing system to solve the functions that traditional craftsmanship and equipment have achieved, such as spot color logos, double-sided proofing, and sample box sample making. Single folder color, remote proofing, etc., allow users to experience the convenience brought by new technologies.

2. Choose the right software and different control methods

At present, there are more optional digital proofing systems, but in real production applications, especially in personalized applications, the color management of BLackmagic digital proofing software is the most prominent. It can output high color quality products with relatively simple settings, it also has double-sided color proofing, CIP3 interface technology, multi-task automatic control. Multi-media printing and remote proofing can satisfy quick printing and proofing. Individual requirements for different types of users, such as design and sample production.

In short, after the printing industry has matured the application of digital proofing to meet the personalized needs of the future printing market, it is inevitable for the market to develop. Therefore, the coordination and cooperation between the fully functional digital proofing software and the customer's understanding of the technology and process control can meet the new requirements of the personalized service in the printing industry.
(Text / Tu Changhong)