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1. Alter generation of profiles trom the profiling sofware you need to add them into the Fip by pressing Add output profiles button of the outpyt ICE profile Item In CMS Window Finally you Can manane wehbe caly selling meludii prones b TCR ile lomna wilh sore the setings by pressing Save button of CMS Rem In the Priming Option Tab Check the name of TOM file before saving For your wdngi tis porible io mange whole printing pirantos Getting indornation inchiding color penne amd oher options kgh i TPS tile tonal You can gasi ha settings by Tirst attr Siim Brinker solup bation Settings of CMS window automatic import of settings in the previous steps TCM TLC Total Ink limit and other parameters Output ICC profile should be NONE or that option should be OFF Import ICC Color Charts for Printing Open the profiling patch image file which is located at TNSRip Calibration folder or your own 3rd party profiling software CD and print it Genial Image Layout Pont Opbere ced proies Coke Adhe Pori General Image Loaul Print Opliens Colter Prois Coir Mipi Pooler ere Lege levied pil giari Cabe Profiles Orit bieen Posi gal Dogar Ot Prois Color Moke CMA OMS SSM the KI a Taa Sebup Taky ii 4 ia ROR lasmi Dee G8 om wifes H fi eae Media Trxiunaj Fi Ari Paper Set w if i 1 r RGD Wector Denkm HEET E Eri F Print Hodi i CMTE nagad Coe CPV ier IRET D Ova fa Daimi
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3. value means bleeding increasing area For example 3 mm top will cut top image area by 3mm with reducing image boundary D 13 Color Management Concept of Color Management Process of Color Management eProfessional Profiling Ink Color Level and Total Ink Limit Linearization Gray Balance Level 1 Profiling Easy Profiling Level 2 Profiling Advanced Profiling Quick Profiling Ink Color Level and Total Ink Limit Linearization Gray Balance Level 1 Profiling Easy Profiling Color Management Setup Base of TOPAZ CMS Color Adjustment and Proofing Typical procedure in TOPAZ CMS Various Color Adjustment tools in TOPAZ CMS eCMS Package Management E 1 Color Management Concept of Color Management TOPAZ Rip meets demands of both professional Color Management and Practical Color Management One of major difference of TOPAZ Rips is this easy and practical color management and I CC independent color correction tools to get the widest color gamut and exact representation of color simulation Practical amp Flexible All In One CMS TOPAZ RIP aims for Popularization of Professional Color Management This means the Rip provides everything in a basic package for users to create their own color profiles and manage them in very easy and practical way The Rip provides a real All In One Color Management tools even for those who does not have any profiler software n
4. One Stop Smart Printing Solution For Windows TO PAZ RIP User s Guide Issued in Feb 12 of 2007 Business Version 9 0 English oN VALLOY Incorporation yh Ps Software Information PostScript Level 3 Compatible Raster mage Processor LEADTOOL is a registered mark of Lead technolgy Postscript is a registered mark of Adobe System Inc X rite is a registered mark of X rite Inc Macintosh is a registered mark of Apple Computer Inc WINDOWS is a registered mark of Microsoft Corp MacLan is a registered mark of Mirama system CorelDraw is a registered mark of Corel Corp Photoshop is a registered mark of Adobe System Inc Illustrator is a registered mark of Adobe System Inc All other trademarks and resistered trademarks are the property of their respective owners Due to continuing research and product improvements feature or product specifications may change at any time without notice What s New in Version 9 0 INSTALLATION Our installation wizard is enhanced to safely install all required programs and modules as well as std color setting library CMS packages for major printers New Product Manager program can help you easily add delete printers install distribute CMS packages and upgrade your software or lock key dongle HI GHER LEVEL OF BASIC SPEC Business version 9 0 provides full driver list and 4 selectable active printers as default DI VICE SUPPORT Full
5. O Yell A control Seow 10 O Black 100 ss Bee Total ink limit Total Ink Limit x fk control 0 O Brightness Tweak Curve 100 Lt Default lut Brightness 2 e control Contrast Black Enfancement 100 ngne Contrast J control Curve Preview Tweak curve Black Enhancement Original Preview Simulation Preview F 28 Job Control Ink Level Control Click Job Color Adjustment icon on the Job Control tool set bar You ll see Color Adjustment tab of Job Detail Setup window In this tab you can access to Color Correction Adjustment settings like level ink limit curve tweaking and etc Printed results can be simulated during any steps of your color correction adjustment by just pressing Apply button This dynamic preview option is very useful because you can monitor effects of your color adjustment work in real time If you calibrated your monitor you ll get more precise Soft Proofing feature This level control is basically for non ICC users Color Laval because ICC profiling process covers D max cut Ben W control level control for each color However this a owe ie additional controllability is very useful for both of Bote ICC users and non ICC users with providing more freedom in color adjustment Some graphics or image data requires additional color level control for better output beyond ICC profile You can edit values of each color level in color level menu Tetai ia
6. maintaining the settings as they are WEA Location iik O T aibri aA api LLP i Geaypiialance AA eps jn TP T Babam e Da gUn Evrirr i Ey ma af H Ai ere mil i oer tin bl E kkl ini afn i Lin Seer A se eld nl AA eps aro Che G OT ne Kama iHi POST OM EA E i POTT CY SD HLA HE Type iD Patient migi Fir epi ntp pi n bee A Pps ase Pirina Diara EF ciii a is Finder saig Tinara Kiama EiT ipa iad Hmi pipip eared phere LA ps However there s another very practical me option of faster and media saving way jz lt Close Color Environment Manager om for a while and open multiple Color Chart images in TOPAZ Rip main program In opening images Don t forget to apply the TCM file created in the previous step together After that run TOPAZ Sherry Nesting and merge multiple images together on the nested RI cipe ee Crete Hiem Tini CETER Ne Coe TR i layout And then go back to TOPAZ Rip main program and print the nested image at a time Run your professional profiling software and create ICC profile with using the printed Color Charts Detailed procedures can be followed with referring to user s manual of the profiling software Typical ICC profiler software Colorblind MatchBox Monaco Profiler Pantone Colorvision Profiler ProfileCity Colour Confidence Print Profiler Heidelberg PrintOpen GretagMacbeth ProfileMake
7. Double Click Or Drag amp Drop Command Deriler Loading images by Auto Nestin TOPAZ Sherry Nesting provides simple auto nesting option to load all images at once by arranging the positing with automatic calculation There s no margin between images i Fle Eli Yews fhevlingg obeys iO Aut Nesting Lads al l i foe eeee eee ee H mm fl a Lani Jm 7 Ul 0 Imi Da yi ooo Imm Ta eu rT i 7000 0000 mm Nesting Job aaa ener inc seo 3 hyusfimediaW3 2 CPTNSRip cut rat 4 ERBU mapi CAPTNSRip WC alibrat LW TNS Ain alibrat a Loading all images at once together el Fel wi iioa Ww 105 1279 mm _ ERLE mn Fa alla Deleting images from nested layout h zaage mith Sa y 00000 mm r a epl ea lec Click Select icon and select one of multiple rat ae a aan images in the nested layout You can select multiple images by mouse dragging Selected image s will be out boxed in red Press DELETE key to delete the selected from the nested layout G 16 Layout Management Duplicate image into man TOPAZ Sherry Nesting provides Copy option to import one image as many duplication This is useful if you re printing the same image in many units You can control X number X margin Y number and Y margin Select one image in the nested layout not in the input image list on the left and adju
8. EE Aparna nea clr TPS file can be created and modified by referring to a specific TCM file Information All color parameters Creation CMS manager wizard 2 Gren Images r Application TPS creation print job CMS package creation Daaa gi PRERABT TO TOs os sale e ST aT gt gt E seh Information All parameters Image 1 WOR ES Ey oe wscccecone pocee 3 kapadokya p e We pe 4 Fruit pdf waco 5 erst til 5 5 colour job ps 0 oP free 2 eee Ad Panter Delete Printer Chel Prefraiacad Proin Py ee i P mih Drie Spectr thor H ha fiery ed ve iaip gm ate ad er p paar al Pae mahad es ae Latest Baii jee att oath Ebd ink Feats Creation Save icon and menu Application Repeated job with same image settings including tiling info Global Control In TOPAZ Rip every setting parameter including layout options printing options and color settings can be stored as TPS file TPS is TOPAZ PRINT SETUP which contains every printing parameters in xxx TPS file With Input Queue Setup of Global Control users can create their own Input queues with information of physical location hot folder and printing environment setting TPS file TPS file can be created and modified with Print Setup of Global Control only TPS files does not get any effect from parameter changes of Job Control However it is possible t
9. Media Calibration DATA Feed Uni Bi direction Media thickness Vatum RIP Media Select putut Mode conrdl Pass OPI Olraction Printer Head height Madia tyoe hand of soll and etc Raster DATA Use Media Job Control Some typical parameters in Media Setup A Output size adjustment It is required to calibrate the output size when actual printed size is different from that of your expectation due to mechanical error or media characteristics If your printer does not have media size calibration function or if you need to calibrate the output size with a specific media size on your printers this option will adjust the image size automatically to fit the output size required without any calibration or modification of any mechanical settings Print Size Adjustment Target Width 1000 0 mm Printed Width 1000 0 mm Print target size of image and check the printed size of output e g 500mmX300mm original is printed as 490mmX305mm Printed Length 1000 0 min Type the values in and software will re calculate input side to fit the correct output size automatically Target Length 1000 0 mm B Feed rate adjustment Feed rate adjustment is required because surface smoothness of each media is different and it generates differences in feeding amount per pass It is one of the most important parameter to prevent your output from banding problem When you increase the feed rate band length per pass wil
10. Preserve Pure Hue It is possible to preserve Cyan color of CMYK E Magent Yell Black ae f Preserve Pure Hue L1cyan Akset Lalit d Vector only Also it is possible to preserve Red Red Green _ Blue and Green colors of RGB Raster image only Whether the image is CMYK or RGB you can preserve its own hue separately for Vector and Raster ICC profile mixes colors and the output can have impurities If you use this option your targeted part of output will maintain pure colors Preserve Pure Hue option will preserve pure color without stray pixels Cyan Magenta Yellow Black Red Green and Blue selectively for Image and Vector This is very useful in below cases 1 Pure Logo or Vector Graphics If you d like to maintain colors of Logo or Vector Graphic you can maintain the pure hue for Vector image without applying ICC profiles Other images in the same job will be effected by ICC profile 2 If you have CMYK RGB mixed job you can maintain RGB hue without applying ICC while CMYK is effected by ICC profile Vise versa You can maintain the original hue of your Logo even if the Logo is not vector image with this method F 24 Job Control Spot Color Replacement TOPAZ Rip offers you the ability to change one color with another color within an image It allows you to do color replacement ranging from a single color replacement to a range of colors This tool also help you do color replacement without changin
11. eJob Cutting Option Preparing a file for cutting Cutting option in Job Control Running Cut server program ejob Mark Setup F 1 nmn TD nnmnnn nnmnnn nmn Th a N WWW W WWWWNN NNNNNNF KPRRFEND UW A N BWRFOWRMO VIBWNNOWO NUWO a a W w O Job Control Job Setup Concept of Job Control Dialog windows from Global Control for environment setting can be used with the same way of dialog windows from Job Control icons for settings of each job However users can distinguish one from the other by the existence of dynamic preview window in the right side of dialog windows from Job Control icons The difference is that dialog for printing environment setting in Global Control saves parameters in the current queue and adjusted values of parameters in the dialog of Job Control are not saved for reuse Those parameter settings for each job in Job Control will work on the current job only without saving the data Except for saving features functions of two kinds of dialogs are almost the same Job Control Dialogs do not allow to save TPS Print Environment Setting file and they also do not allow to access to Port Setup But it is allowed to save Job Package which includes a specific image together with all setting parameters including tiling for future use of identical repeated printing The Rip provides very useful Soft Proofing feature in the Job Control dialog windows Dynamic preview window in the Job Cont
12. AB Uere en eee TOT p a Driver Grand Shore 50 8 2 ENPA i A Pordi FILE THS ALE awi m gt pee a ee Printer Setup z 4 as k I onns Sea Fin t Grand saan E Cl C OR CI Aito Prim m Jobe eo P arera eben Prine o Paga Peogenas Stat Ti Elaps TES Mode Sunes High Spaad ETI Badk saan Pia Hosaka ga Grand Sherpa S A A GATF p Ready 3 I F 4 2 ga Grand Sherpa 5 PLAI GATF ps Resi i Ej jru TE jji F i ork ie as hoa an oe ee p SA b F an bal padi Mead alas 2 fe pe z Binara re a ee el a ata om re E ef ps memp Poe ane RAN T p riba at a cl i es pa a PE eo e ee CON ee i i oy H a va E k ih a i ner A oa ae a E Ei et ERA Pari A HH 2A ifa mak TE A d OXTLCMYK S30 D yA he ee ae Se saat ea peewee pel OTET a ay ba ease e aie el ater ae a i Reet ial T E p hal i eee maja oA P Elen rh Original tiled cropped job 4 Copies of the tiled cropped job r r e e ENEFA a taal nas naa nad nae pee r p a p aah ue 1 iat apd G 10 Layout Management Copying After clicking Tile amp Copy tab and activate the check box of Copy Print Users can define number of Columns and margin between Columns Users can also define number of Rows and margin between Rows Rip does not provide any preview for copied layout and it displays only one original file You need to check total output
13. Click Zoom icon on the layout tool bar i and zoom in out with mouse button Zoom in f4 Zoom out Direct send to Print job Select tiles made from Crop tool or tiling tool Mee ned Change the mode into Job Management mode immediately and send the job into Print Queue for immediate printing Select ty Select tiles made from Crop tool or tiling tool esodenttet weccceeooee geewensees eoecccee ee seeeee eocccccess essseet ecssoeeee essoooee eosssosoest es Click Panning icon on the layout tool bar and pan the preview image with mouse drag G 3 Layout Management Layout Tab Click Layout Tab located under the Layout Manager Tab You can control basic scaling positioning Rotating and Mirroring here Output size edit box press ENTER after editing if you do not press ENTER key after editing output size will not change If Constrain Proportion check box is activated edition of horizontal output size will change vertical output size A JF JobManager Gy Layout Manager ies Layout Gal lie amp Copy Input 180 2554 mm automatically The same for the opposite case 239 6589 mm Output E 180 2634 mm Output size by Scale as a percentage for original size 239 0509 mm Change of Scale will change Output Size value automatically Scale 100 0000 lf Constrain Proportion check box is activated output size values and Scale ration
14. Quility ee ak Global Control File Open and Save Job Package File Open Users can simply open a certain file from local hard disk or shared disk on the network Users can also just drag the file from any location of PC and drop it on the window of the Rip software for file loading Also user can just print from any application with using TOPAZ Virtual Printers If users use hot folders or virtual printers it s easier to load file from any location on the network for automatic process environment When opening an image printer model and TPS file can be opened together Rova Users can save all information for each printing job in job package file jpk Job package includes job setting information color profile screen printing mode and etc layout information tiling copy mark and etc and preview image This option will be very useful when you d like to print the file with the same environment as before without repeating complicated tile editing and color management for example car wrapping application Location I Desktop O amp G l Lamp_technology pdt TE NCID pdi fi P1000655 PG AE F 10006561F G TATOPAZ RIP_testo70904 pdt File name fi Format 7 Printer Printer Setup OK Cancel PSalmage Files ps eps pdt jp
15. Same or similar jobs with the same ink and media You can use the exactly same settings used before including ICC profiles But your linearization curve can need to be adjusted by re calibration 4 Different jobs with the same ink and media You can use the same settings used before but you can change parameters in various color adjustment tools provided in TOPAZ CMS window New Environment Repeated job Minor change Major change Change of Total Ink Limit and Ink Color Levels L Cnead Ink Level Adjustment i f Brightness control New Calibration H A eet control gt Linear curve modification Curve tweaking Black enhancement New printing mode New screen applied Unlimited production of New Color Settings E 18 Color Management Base of TOPAZ CMS TOPAZ CMS Color Management Setup program will appear in the final step of Quick Profiling and Professional Profiling processes TOPAZ CMS is an independent program running separately from TOPAZ RIP and it can open image and print it for itself TOPAZ CMS program can be accessed in any time when required If you started from Quick Profiling you ll see all settings and files like print mode Total ink Imit ink color levels linearization curve TLC and ICC profile ICC are imported from the previous steps automatically and those are saved in the given CMS TCM file If you started from Professional Profiling you ll see all setti
16. Spot ink printing like white or gold AAA Spot ink printing like white or gold Contour Cut Rick color printing like CMYKCM or CMYKKK or CMYKCMYK image K __ Normal 4 color printing Color K g See page F 25 to know more about Spot color management Media Setup TMI Fuse Haia Plain Papar ES There s one Media Setup file TMI for every single Sonat _ printer device User can create multiple Media ID with different setting parameters in the given TMI file by the Rip Media options are related with device calibration If you select a specific media name for the printer and activate Use Media check box the Rip will send the media calibration data to printer directly Media setup file includes various parameters related with device calibration like vacuum feeding rate and etc Users can add new Media ID or modify calibration data of existing Media ID in the TMI file Select your media in the list or modify create your media profile by click of the button F 10 Job Control Parameters in the media setup dialog are different for each different printer device Basically the Rip provides media calibration data in many options like media type hard soft vacuum option head height Feed acceleration media thickness and etc TMI file is a Data base file So single TMI file has data of all media created including your custom media Therefore there s only one TMI file for each printer model Various media
17. amp repeat freely without any load of calculation time or CPU The nested Job just a few KB size only can be Riprinted Ripping and printing on the fly in TOPAZ Job manager in a flash without regarding the size of nested job as well as individual images A 5 Overview The most remarkable 14 differences in TOPAZ Rip 10 The smoothest gradient due to proprietary Qubis screen algorithm in TOPAZ TOPAZ has its unique QuBis Screen technology which enables Double 256 256X256 level true color gradation This is a main factor which differentiate printout of TOPAZ from that of others Especially TOPAZ screen is very strong in light area where ink level is very low This screen is also a key factor of success when total ink limit is very low by using 3rd party ink and media Topaz Rip s new screen technology Topaz QuBis Screen allows the smoothest gradation single dual multiple colors 11 Perfect control of HIFI technology Supercell Variable dot and HiFi inks TOPAZ has unique true 2 bit variable dot algorithm to treat with Epson s HIFI technology Further more TOPAZ Rip enables variable dot effect with HP and Canon heads It is very important to use variable dots and light inks in Epson heads But theoretically two technologies are conflicting with each other TOPAZ is one of a few solution which cleverly resolve the confliction and shows the best quality with using both technologies at the same time It is also very diffi
18. gray scales totally 72 gray scales PAL You need to select only one among these 72 gray scales In ideal case you can find a gray scale which is the C most similar to pure black scale However the mixture of CMY B seldom makes similar color to pure K You can select the gray D scale which is close to neutral black Its ok if you select cool gray or warm gray for your own preference If it is very hard to choose one because you cannot find any neutral gray in the charts please measure your linearization chart again For the last option given to you is that you need to select one where the most saturated gray black looks as similar to pure black as possible It is easier to edit middle tones of gray than to edit dark tones later in Color Correction tools Select size of chart Rotate Mirror image and print it 2 Saloct Paith amang Al io Fe from Chart A Met Conca Hep Select one gray scale press Generation button Press Generation button and you ll see Location ig Grand Sherpa 50 a window for linearization file saving p enot Linearization file will be saved as tlc format and the default location and naming rule will be as below Name HE choman Plight lel im FLAN fe High Quality 4 Variable Dot TLAN owe Type iT Lintatisation Files 4 Cancel TNSRip ICCprofile Printer_name Printer_color_paper_resolution_pass_option tic RyRy A Lingarigation curve is net qen
19. ied The opersion was gucceseluby completed Install complete Inset HASP Dongle to your Computer s USE Port and then click OF ASPI module Installation TOPAZ Rip installation wizard will start installation of utilities like ASPI module LD TOPAZ RIP Installation TOPAZ Rip installation wizard will start installation of TOPAZ RIP main program B 5 System Installation Select the location to install the program Browge For Folder Fa Smid Darimana U meabinr Wiame whould TORAZAIP Busters bee rilataj Deisi a lokis on Ghee bel bakra then cik OF ETHS LJ Setup will inital TOPAZAOIP Dunner inta the folowing folder fo SOAS E go GES OAS Fy s pi Topak ii 0 To conn cick Med Pf you voui like io smed a damni folder click Browen Bme MWP2002 PE T Bi lend AAL ME ni fee dnk apaes B recqumed Follow the guide of installation wizard for each step Soup Selec Simt Menu Fikh Whar Hiki Sep place She progam shewtoula Selci Comprens Weh rera ad a mad Select the components pou warnt bo inital cles the components pou do not want bo Fiial Chk Mice when pou one aihe bin garirai iin Setup wall oleate the p gan chovtouts in the follosang Shad Mana inkje Ful ahaa To coninun cick He ft you would ike in ariari a dierri folder chek Brown Curen misninn esquire af kasat A235 ME of ih apea Cia Cae
20. s multiple identical images in Input Queue window Sherry Nesting will import single image for them The default TPS will be applied to the Nested Job in case that each input job has different TPS settings linked See below image and description to get an outlook of TOPAZ Nesting In the left side you will see each individual jobs of the Rip in the nesting job list window Nesting layout size control Load and Save Nesting layout document Copy Cut Paste Selection e Zooming Tool Tool Panning Tool Informati n Sherry Mest Ble Edy wew Nesting ea taco gha ox A i gt Create Nested Job for Riprintng P wi 10000000 mm ag wif mm i uo mm se Rotation of h 00 0000 mm Meh 0000 mee 00000 mm Nesting job Nesting Joo Ire hhn E hen it Re positioning of Nesting job 2 IE Re scaling of Individual Job e Nesting job for Nesting Nesting Preview Corry Copy option Column i Num Margin 0 0000 mm Total Size See So Mi of selected ee se images argin 0 0000 mm Total Size 932 7444 X 856 7883 mm ae S21 245 OEIC G 15 Layout Management Running Sherry Nesting Loading images and unloading images to the nested layout Individual images in the input queue will be listed in the left thumbnail preview window Select one and double click on it or just drag and drop into the nested layout window to load the image
21. space from a much larger colors pace the resulting conversion could introduce banding posterization and other artifacts into the image Relative or absolute If you are going to use the colorimetric rendering intent you still must determine whether to use either the relative or absolute versions These two rendering intents treat all colors the same way and only differ in their treatment of the white point When using relative colorimetric the white point of the source color space is mapped or changed to the paper white of the destination The result White in the original image effectively remains white in the final output When using absolute colorimetric the white point of the destination becomes the white point represented by the source profile To clarify further imagine that your source profile was made from your press printing on newsprint stock The white point in this profile will be the color of the newsprint stock itself which is certainly not a pure white Selection of Rendering Intents In summary if you re printing a final output for signage or poster purpose you re advised to use Perceptual rendering intent This does not gives precisely correct color but it gives as pleasant color as possible without clipping effect If your output is more sensitive to correct color you re advised to use Relative Colorimetric instead Use Saturation or Absolute Colorimetric for very special purposes only
22. w l F r AA Dark l Bright l more ink consumption less ink consumption more ink injection less ink injection This tool can be used to tone up and down the image The concept is the same with Density down or up Ink Injection down or up Contrast Contrast This tool is slide control 100 EE 100 E 1 O OD Dimmer gt Sharper F F 33 Job Control Black Enhancement You can access to Black Enhancement option in the Color Adjustment Tab You can select one of the prepared setting file tgb or select NONE if you do not need Black Enhancement Air Frnhuinn emani E Cyin E Mi epee E Velay Cl Convent Ch ia E You can create or modify your own settings fou Rlack Enhancement In many cases people feel printed color or black is unsatisfactory When printing with pigment black ink the printed black can be less solid than that from dye black ink In case of printing backlit application back lighted black area may not be shown flat or dark enough It is critical problem if dark area of the backlit output looks patched with stains In Digital Graphics and Photographs the role of Black is very important and it can dominate volume and vividness of whole artwork In this regards users need to add other colors to pure black zone for delicate control of black color The easiest way of Black Enhancement is adding the same level of CMY colors to black area However if you d like to control de
23. CD Select your language to use during the installation process B 3 System Installation Lock driver Installation TOPAZ Rip installation wizard will start installation of lock key driver program first Start installation without lock key installed HASP Dongle Driver Install Remove HASP Dongle tram your Computer s USB Port and then click OF Helect Language Please relati the language thal you would ike bo uye dung the intal Device Driver Installation Utility ak Aladdin Cae Copyright ote A eiia bagi Sarkar a Li i Select your language for lock driver installation Insialing Coppe Derai apad DLL CAMA aS yaleman fl a1 Pel HASP Device Driver installation Installation status Follow each step of installation wizard cl HASP Deviow Oriver ioiai eal Welcome Ther retaliation programa instal ee HOSP Deere Dren on ie Pl HASP Device Driver Installation Thin setup val inveial the M amp S Dewi amet we 1 2 leds SSEUME wre Weckoet N 1 Finished Aladdin hepe ASi hi apode 11 PASE Denver Yaon 45 th The HARP fen Crees here beer marasa mairi lh gidir Li adaa thes deena chines Serta Bip deen bend In bee clea Aladdin a ne extent Pierce the Finch baan fri aot fhe rials B 4 System Installation G fLochbriver haspiinst ara i HASH AL Device Oriya Please Wali Aladdin Dorica Driver inmallatian Utility far Wind
24. Linearization D gt ICC Profiling E gt Color Correction Simulation and Total Ink Limit and Gray Balance and Curve Tweaking and Printing Repeated work Adjust Color ink level gb Calibration e Color Correction simulation with fia pelee Dac and Total Ink Limit and Gray Balance and Curve Tweaking and Printing and printer Do You Have a Colorimeter Spectrometer j O QUICK PROFILING YES Levell EASY PROFILING PROFESSIONAL PROFILING PROFESSIONAL PROFILING Levell EASY PROFILING Level 2 ADVANCED PROFILING E 2 Color Management Process of Color Management TOPAZ Rip provides Color Environment Manager wizard as a separate module With using this program user can create color profiles adjust and simulate colors and save the result in topaz Professional Profiling Uneadlsation with Denslometer Spectrometer Levl 1 Profile generalt with Standard Ink Profile Level 2 Profile generate with other protes elonal Profiler Quick Protilina naked eye Uinearleation Level 1 Profile penersty with Stardard Ink Profile Color Management Setup Color Twwaking and Proo ng OMS Fille TOM Generation Teal Printing CMS Package Creation Color Envdronment Manager Version 25 Copyright 0 Se 2005 IMAGEN RORES Oo All tights reserved Ink Level Test Color Ink Level Max Ink Cut Total Ink Limit Linearization Use std linearization curve for the specific ink set Gray Balance Find the bes
25. Modi THO Cuai w E Hai Fai GHE Wecbor 1 Dacor itt EST Fiessuiien T Arii Dt z union e tse Embedded Profile When valahis atime ri i Fa A es i ee Atia a Rava Jiet Micro Weave C J PASS amp al whew amp a io E soo e222 Peace Se a Perren rererere nein tee eel Tonal Indl nie BOZE e E k r Da Sie P sa oo Eh vi aide Cat Pee eecanee tat Gai fil Gick Mera is ianiai a C Cyan iagents e iia 1 iiss Cee jeen jes a Aavanced Setup Check the linear curve an w osi Chek Mona rei E aa ae f Spek Tepe i oeae TLC and ink cut levels Eran Magenta _ oia laih E aot Tipi Line p r treh i a r ser rP i ure i f th Llai Li en jia iD HEI O e curve a TOC CUO Ch Pu Lirene CMEC Ee z EF ir i y EEUU UOROOUOOOCU OCC OC Tet ttre ree ber Setup Mure Iri Lire i a Ee Fee ICC profile option should be OFF during ICC chart printing E 11 Check Total ink limit value Color Management During printing of Color chart you will need to print many images to use More than 800 seissinssers Gunton patches In this case you Emam T Bunot Ey lnkLimit Ag tot PO_CM YE SL TP 41 til need to open each chart image and print one by one in Color Environment Manager program with Mame ihi lype T POST LCMV SSLOTR Ali POSTA CM YE SMTP PA Piilscipyimnige Fisl pi s epe pi g s iE jpk eai co
26. Rip s origin can be different from the direction of printers On the preview image Rip is setting the origin at left top corner with dimension of Horizontal x and Vertical Y Rio s Preview image Arrow means printing direction Printing direction is always the same generally And the origin is always located at left top corner Printing result In the rip MA 151 31 mi Outout Ei aT mii Chiat iH fs TTA mm PERI Te mm Origin 0 0 Origin 0 0 Seeman i Printing result i as l S Note sometimes the location of origin is different for some printers or plotters For example Seiko machines has its origin at the opposite side G 13 Layout Management Sherry Nesting Concept of TOPAZ Sherry Nesting TOPAZ Sherry Nesting program is very enhanced in version 9 now The program is developed for meeting customer s demand of media saving However TOPAZ Nesting was designed differently from other similar modules of Competitor software which need to each ripping process to create huge nesting job In this approach users waste their time during the ripping of large nested job with stopping the printer rather than save their media TOPAZ Sherry Nesting module is running independently from TOPAZ Rip main program In this regards Nested job can be treated as independent job from individual jobs which are contained in the nested job Nested job can be printed even when individual jobs are deleted In TO
27. TPS file with using Color Environment Manager program Almost every parameter can be determined here with simulating of a test image The result of this process will be TCM file including every color related parameters or TPS file including all parameters for Job Settings You can reuse TCM or TPS later For real printing open the prepared TCM file or TPS file and edit image layout with various tools like resizing rotation mirroring tiling cropping positioning copy amp repeat nesting and etc Adjust colors if required with using various color adjustment tools Print your image with using TOPAZ Rip main program C 4 First Running Save the current image job settings as a Job Package for identical printing in the future Scaling Positioning Rotation Mirroring Copy amp Repeat Tiling and Nesting Layout Management Ripping and Printing Brightness Contrast Ink limits Curve tweaking Save overall printing settings as TPS file with referring to any of existing TCM files Reuse 4 N Backup and distribute Apply printing settings TPS Into each hot folder and virtual printer TOPAZ CMS WIZARD Create CMS settings as TCM files Create and Distribute CMS Packages h eh C i Color ink levels Total Ink Limit Brightness Contrast Linearization Gray balance Ink limits Curve tweaking it ICC profiling B
28. The chart will show very different result per each different settings of printing option and printer model K m Find the best ink limits while it does not cause S Cocklina bleedina nuddlina or other problems 80 90 i 1 2 138 Same Ti ae oo 3 UJUUCUOBE ee gt After printing of ink limit chart you need to determine ink limits of CMYK color first The Ink Limit chart shows RGB as well as CMYK data For example the difference between an ink limit of 85 and 90 was barely visible on the CMYK ink limit chart squares but the difference it made to the red green and blue squares on the subsequent linearization chart between 170 and 180 will be huge Combining RGB with CMYK on the same first chart enables a better ink limit choice to be made Criteria of decision for ink limit 1 Find physical burning point the starting point where the square is fully filled with ink without any white vacant area 2 Find physical wetting point the starting point where ink starts bleeding or burning Ink should not exceed the square edges and wet for a long time After drying the surface of the square should be smooth enough Total Ink Limit chart provides various mixed colors for better selection even for the range more than 300 Find the best cut with following the above criteria Wetting oint Burning Select cut point point as higher as possible I lestctnd 3 Find the ink cut point between burning
29. and two types of tiles set TILING METHODS TILES SET TYPE Tiling by Size Regular size tiles set Tiling by number of grid Irregular size tiles set Tiling by Quick Crop mouse drag First of all activate the check box of Enable Tiling Regular Size Tiles Set iregular Size Tiles Set in the Tile amp Copy tab in Layout management mode ea Boat IE A Tiling by size When the tile size is important enable the check BEvable Tiny ee fiPSPt box of Tiling by size and apply size value of unit tile in mm unit Output hier t Press ENTER key and click Apply Tiling button Tiling by grid When the number of total grids is important enable the check box of Tiling by grid and apply total numbers of horizontal grids and vertical grids Press ENTER key and click Apply Tiling button C Overlap If you need to print in overlap for sewing or combining of each tile apply appropriate value here See also sewing mark Apply Tiling n of Mark setup in JOB CONTROL Chapter in previous pages D Apply Tiling You must click Apply Tiling button to apply ort Seed 166 6194 Oyorap J Tiling by Size 2 14H liling by Grid FA Mure Copy Print parameters to the preview display window Colum 1 Nutr Margin 0 0000 LLL nw Murr Margin 0 0000 mim D Fonn Feed Per Ruw att Overlap value mm i Overlap is applied ditterently to tiles depending on the location of each tile Fo
30. chart ar Burd each fot wae dhiki bes cetervered wehbe dots not couse coding beadra pudina and other artelactirg ccs Wil Chet reetrietoh naia af C P Y kocan ba sija te ee BCA CVSS CA piora pi dirian eh Oraa deed plia Aio boal k li ghoid be php bo presser Pese EAT Ed eres that the prope ai of iis placed on hee peper huig printings lt Back Nant gt Cantal Halp Default CMS Name Name of TCM file will be created automatically with parameter information of the previous step e g Printer_color_paper_resolution_pass_ option You can edit the name with your own naming rule Print Ink Limit Chart TOPAZ Rip provides 2 different size of Ink Limit Chart 270 6mm X 155 2mm and 500 7mm X 315 7mm Print the chart with applying rotate mirror and copy option If required It is recommended to fill full width area Status bar will be filled green during printing Setting CMYK Max Ink amp Total Ink Limit You have printed ink limit chart now The chart will show very different result per each different settings of printing option and printer model K Find the best ink limits while it does not cause Cocklina bleedina nuddlina or other problems j BO agt 1 21 1 38 Same UUUUDOD ES gt ai After printing of ink limit chart you need to determine ink limits of CMYK color first The Ink Limit chart shows RGB as well as CMYK data For example the difference betw
31. complicated To begin to understand how UCR and GCR techniques work in the color separation process two basic image areas have to be identified They are neutral and color areas on images Neutral areas are identified by neutral gray areas such as white highlights gray mid tones and black shadow areas On the other hand color areas are colorful hues of a reproduction Color areas are comprised of six basic colors red green blue cyan magenta and yellow Each color ranges from light colors to pure hues GCR and UCR tools are related with how chromatic colors you d like to get by replacing CMY with K ink In GCR setting you can control chromatic level in both of neutral gray areas and color areas by adjusting the length and width of the K Lower values of the length and width of K will give you more chromatic colors in result In UCR setting you can control chromatic level in neutral gray areas only by adjusting Total dot area and Maximum black parameters When total dot area exceeds your setting CMY will be replaced by K to reduce ink saturation However K ink should not exceed the maximum black setting Total ink limit is related with the Gamut of ICC profile You need to set a little bit larger value around 280 300 than the measured value during CMS process of TOPAZ Rip It is recommended to secure as wide gamut of ICC profile as possible with wider ink limit will provide users with various opportunities to
32. fa a peepee eeeeee Upgrade irot or charged pyre ol your penre Manage your program to be the latest version Upgrade your back kay for rnes divers or rew fancies Press Install CMS package button CMS Package Installation Wirard x If there s CMS packages in the CD eo eee it ll appear in the list re s no CMS mud beo to inetall in the het iA Nie Gat Ceao bi IACI AES IN titer aa ata You can browse the CD or other locations manually Installed Printer CMS Package select All fer ENO S0 ers Select one and press Next to install color management settings CMS Packages Inelallatian Ha Cummontly inttading CMS Pacakoo Ko E Profile A H SA PoP heleoradetieas _ 1 par High Qualy MITA EDFA SAT F pa aa z i Amdu Vis iem ICC Profile aL A SARS Pep Phoilis go fab ete roducdon Ws IGD FEM Hele Profile Go ST PP holed Mes ie sodueton OS Enpa Ho reese A O a ne ee is ST AUR gh ceed WT terri lee Profile AH SFL Pog Syrii ape um MCT HGh ann y Se ic Ti CC Protea a SOW FLIGUNGL Pat Sbai Papue iah Sere V zm pi CP rene An A Pije itech apareis fle fe rede tion aa e LP refi A Se ee yne Fapa umn Ib a pden YS 15 lor C Proik Ani SAL Pig Syri Papo un tater enducton YOS Sins D Prot ea BGO SWRLS000 Pig SynteicPapo lena salt Rigs Spad Y Sail icm Ho Pretile A A SAT Py niet cP ape rep es High Speed Y patie ICP rote U Se LD Fg Syni F apar Japin Te FAHA apang i W i HEATHA Heka
33. first for the program to find the correct port in this case In the list of ports there re 2 type of port TNS port and Windows port TOPAZ Rip supports variety of its own ports TCP IP LPT USB Firewire SCSI and etc with its own internal spooler You re highly recommended to use TNS port instead of Windows port Spooler of windows OS is very unstable and there could be a printing error during spooling TNS port has a tag of TNS and Windows port has a tag of WinDrv Add Furl MESAFILE TNS MEGAFILE w TNs TCP AP Port 3 iP Address 1S 168 D i LPT TNS FASTLPT 192 168 0 10_9100 TMS TCP IP pec 2400 series Gt S6cFcF2h aOO01 TNS USB MEGAHILE INS MEGAFILE HEL IMS FFI Port 9100 Ci Local Port ae eae INS USE ceS S USE r Pi 192 168 020 9100 TNS TEPIP 192 168 0 30 9100 TNS TEPPI 192 160 0 1593100 THS TCPAF USODI Wintry hp psc 2400 series poo 2S sons 68 oleic io Ue MTIFORY Win Neien LIMES iad USAOM Winbrvihp pac 2400 seles fax Find your port in the port registration list You can add new port by click of ADD PORT button LETT inir Acrobal POF Wiler LW Documents and setings All Users Al Network Wrin AARAL LO hp pon 2400 erin Some ports are related with a specific driver itself For example Megafile port is for DGI Megajet Driver SCSI port is for Seiko printer drivers and TIFF port is for TOPAZ 1 bi
34. image with high speed at low resolution Drag amp Drop Cing op f Drag amp Dr a Open image together with printer and setting information TPS Simple click on print button On any application Drag amp Drop to hot folders Virtual Printer You also can load any file in much practical way like simple drag and drop or Hot Folder option automatic loading of file with pre defined job settings When you specify any Hot Folders the rip automatically create virtual printers with the same settings You can click print button on any application program and the virtual printers can be shared through network When you double click the file on input queue section the Rip will automatically product preview image and open the job in layout management window This rip s distinct feature is Dual Interface with which user can shuttle from task management mode and layout management mode in a flash Preview process is very important Preview process is not only generating thumb nail image but also finding and checking file error or not interpretable data by pre ripping for reliability problem If file has an error or some factor of the file is above the limitation of interpreting engine you cannot print the file correctly and you have to correct the error in the file in advance If you find object in error try to modify it differently or into simpler one If object in error is Bezier vector you re rec
35. oe ta color profiling too Hew Chat Cal try Hew CHVERS Ey tating a eke Gath Ler LPT Pre fois Gah lie Ler Soon iraran Ph tae yir Sepa o Th eee Prii Goce aie Prii L Lae Soot Caio Sep ni iris hp Soot fou Sep fink Pier Seah Hi i far hie Loja Meeps EB ers L Pahis Lje n ye C jais yee ee CE emcee o meo pee tiomn emcee ick meio save Doe Marve H Toe p er ee ee a oe a coat haere State Mio TE yiree Aiton Adee ore L cd This is an example of CMYKCMYK color mode This is an example of CMYKWWWW color mode from CMYKSSSS With this color mode you can from CMYKSSSS There re some printers requiring use 200 of each device color ink with doubled ink White ink and you ll be able to get 400 of rich drops in the image This enables your much faster saturation of white printing printing low resolution low passes with richer This is very useful for T shirts printing with textile color You ll get increased production speed pigment ink on colored t shirts F 9 Job Control Normal 4 color printing Contour Cut spot channel saeia gt Normal 6 color printing 6666005 Normal 6 color printing Contour Cut spot channel MYKSS v N color separation like CMYKOrGr lt gt N color separation like CMYKOrGr Contour Cut Spot Ink KS amp SSS w N color separation like CMYKOrGrRaBl AS gt N color separation like CMYKOrGrRdBl Contour Cut Spot Ink Spot channels SS I gt
36. of contents eOverview System Installation eFirst Running Global Control Color Management e ob Control eLayout Management e nformation A 1 B 1 C 1 D 1 E 1 F 1 G 1 OVERVIEW One Stop Smart Printing Solution A 2 e ntuitive Interface A 2 eRunning Faster A 2 eSuper scale Print A 2 eMIMO Server A 2 Color Management A 3 ePhoto Quality A 3 eLayout Management A 3 ePractical Nesting A 3 Differentiation of TOPAZ Rip A 4 Different Versions amp Specification A 7 A 1 Overview One Stop Smart Printing Solution Turning your Printers into Geese laying Golden eggs This Rip software is the complete One Stop Smart Printing Solution for your variety of printing jobs If you have a computer and a printer the RIP will lighten your burden of any additional device or software The RIP enables your idea to be truly represented on your output easily promptly and inexpensively Intuitive Interface Fast to learn and Easy to use without asking you hard training This Rip s unique DUAL MODE INTERFACE helps you move forward and backward easily between task based interface and layout based interface for your fast decision and operation with preventing possible mistakes during the complicated job operation Running Faster Accelerate your printing work faster than ever before SPEED for printing work does not mean only ripping speed All processes Software Operation Rip engine a
37. page after printing the previous page without limitation of output size When you print many duplicated big size banners or posters you re recommended to activate this Form Feed Per Row check box The Rip will divide pages within the limitation of the printer and print pages separately one by one in stable way Size 90x1000cm dat gt oe Job order any Jea to vertical j Sa ies m l Da Thea TEEST x E var neni ina 7 p Ki man Ea ig by Sc irme Slice Not using Using ec Tiis bry Gell Form Feed Per Row Form Feed Per Row a A LE N Copy 4ea vertically Copy 4ea to vertically mer Tay aans i co j F Copy Pont Ex Hardware Limitation Ex Hardware Limitation i a 2 500cm 25meter 2500cm 25meter magn PUTT ran ol AA omni Tie mm f Peg nehe Airs IE i Page ending D A E ene and size Heset M Form Feed Per Row ATA AAD Printer Limitation Page ending and size Reset 2500cm Page ending and size Reset 4000cm gap between pages RESULT Complete copy printing Users a litte more media RESULT Cannot complete copy printina Stops at 25m length E la Y Efi De E caused by printer initializatior Layout Management Real Output direction vs Origin Sometimes a specific printer can have different origin position than normal printers It is required to understand how the Rip calculate origin and the real output will be printed Output Direction The
38. pns es dada wa Es g GuntedcPaperlapan Tee tA P roducton vo OUP rote win B000 Sr 00 Pap Suntech agira PCP oduckon VS bt lol Prete AnA SOS as Synthetic apenan a a ducan Vito ES lp Back Next Cancer System Installation CMS Pockage insiallation Wirerd After completion of CMS package installation press Finish button to go back to the Product Manager main window Completion of CMS package installation wizard FJ 6000 50 me J i THE Duy BackightFiin Lae aac GOW RAEI i S000 SIRIEN Dy 26 BackitghiFien 14A 14i SUPA FSU Deo Tx IC CP rosie A00 GAR BACON ah Aae aha TAH poetics why a BWR SEO Dye Bac ldighthiirn ETH IoC Prodie Wh 2000 SOW A000 yei Bac kigh rn ATH IE C riiat Ai Ai ale hey starty Salin E CCPH A 3000 SRI ynny Satin T W you d like to finish CMS package installation wizard press Finish Back Cance Product Update button of Product Manager program window will help you update your lock key Patches and Upgrade program released for free can be installed and used without update of lock key license However in case of charged upgrade for additional functions additional drivers or upgrade into higher version will required license renewal by update of lock key i Product Manager RUS file for lock key update will be provided by your request from your dealers or vendor Press open rus file and select the specific file and press update
39. sample curve type Replace Color Curve to currently selected color plane 3 otasin afi fc A i ponian p er Save your curve edition results x DetGainzia tie All different types of each color curve Choinin eig te will be saved in a single TLC file tlc WW TOFAZAIF y wW w 2 0 Da n w a w Linearigation Curve is modified Do you want to saves Click anode and NEW OPTION IN VERSION 9 0 L_ fee Ji_ eS Sone move it by mouse Slide control bar to move the mid tone dragging curve smoothly for one or all colors F 17 Job Control 1 Tuning Overall Mid tone Check All Curve option and control the Dot gain of mid tone meok Lineurlaation Cu E by using slide control bar Curves will change with maintaining Mowee smi Arm kry io Dome Laii Pith bn une io writ wach pani i i oe ahit a oe i ed Deby the white point and dark point fixed This is very useful option when you d like to change the darkness of printout at once Cohen Cure fe at rv Gravion Dole UKTI j n s without loosing color gamut aE ORL ancora l oe Crm UO N 2 Tuning Mid Tone of Individual Color Hagens e j Walle A i Check All Curve option OFF and select one color plane ne ia Control the Dot gain of mid tone by using slide control bar The Color Curve will change with maintaining the white nee point and dark point fixed This is very useful option ka Clear bind when you d like to change th
40. scanner or design application s w If you know the source it ll be able to define exact Input ICC profiles May applications can embed Input ICC profiles with the image to prevent errors in production and you can also use those embedded profiles in the rip software F 20 Job Control Detailed Information about using ICM options Input ICC profile Input profiles are used for converting color values of original images into a neutral color space Once the image is in a neutral color space then the output profile is used to convert the color of original image into the color space of the output device Click Add button to add ICC inputs profile from another source Two types of ICC input profiles can be specified as below CMYK ICC input profile The CMYK input profile defines colors of all objects of a job that are in CMYK color mode If your job is in the RGB color mode then you need to leave the CMYK input profile set to the Generic setting If your file contains both of CMYK images and AGB images then CMYK input profile will be applied to the CMYK images only Also RGB input profile will be applied to the RGB images only If your whole image is in the CMYK color mode then your file might be previously separated for output printing with a specific output device Whenever possible use the protile prepared for the device which the objects in the job were separated for if you do not have any profile available if possible try similar
41. setup parameters in different printers All different kind of printers have it s own unique parameters to control the media properties Here are examples Medi Setup El Wedio Setup eh Meda Tyga t D d a ee 20 Uno Pitti ae a E OD iska be Pe heer bE oe Ole DEFALLT isum wia w f j ai S 00 00 0 Ure 0 8 eee ied igh BIDEE CEI mnh i eed 1 p iinr hirer bee Foe od m p 4 10 ma 0 200 ma Ut ah Haka Tee ee Coe an e g kai 20 Mee 0 OFF muro n ee ip oor fe Peat Pima Patt A nay Tee Oo Eepe heats iil Ww Te Mee E OPF Heda Hama PO Sate eet ae Let Heia D HO WwtaiT Xerox 8390 Mutoh Spitfire Heda Type Eiee jo 00 S A E 30 Zo meron 20m E WEAK ka Weim MAn ual CAR Chit rma Pisia Pree EF di Hd F p e G T Fl a heel Dii leri hjam a ae oe Cen ikrai agh hf m jfa Mutoh RJ 8000 Pam Pepi kamiri Oi p a ary Medio Setug Paia m MAN Hada Maire GEET Bieda fpr Pian Pager Haia fy PLAIN Hain gap Deiet Elfed Adpuatment 100 00 IDO er PORDO 0 08 Liew Tmas U m fD a e Ped correcting Haster Tempersture Gegress Celian i Esing Mathes Erla Hester Temperaire Degree Cela Bos Aake oy Col al lear Heated 5 rebate 20 m ee 20 dd degree F Frin Haaber a Cou mie i Prot Hea 0 O OS Epson stypus pro 4800 Mimaki JV3 130SP HP Designjet 9000 Print Settings and Raster dala software Control of Device Calibration
42. size with copy operation cautiously Bo ew Settings Tool Ho 28 frry IMETUA 2 RP eb Manager G Layout Manager isc Gites copy Enable Teg cL rea Output Size Sake RG mm Ovaap 0 0000 mm E Titng by Sire oe H i 3 l 11 g i ER d i Y Tiling by rid a lt ee E I um How z J f a f Copy Print Column z Hur Margin ii Terri Pow E Mum Margen Ai i Row margir Column margin Pnu BEB RRR RRP Rees j Toi Sire G61 806 637mm a Sa When you input copy number of objects Copy of tiled image The tetal output size appears here Single tile selection Multplei tiles selection Colum lea Colum zea Colum lea Row 3ea Row 3ea Row Sea margin 1Qmrr margin Qmm margin 10mm G 11 Layout Management Dividing Pages for Long Output Printin Basically TOPAZ Rip supports super scale printing without decreasing printing ripping time and output quality Even though this Rip can print more than 100 meters long size output some printers have their own limitation of printing size In this regards some printers stop after printing 12 13 meters output and some printers stop printing after 20 30 meters Users are very embarrassed when this happens For preventing the problem the Rip provides unique resolution It divides pages with maintaining the size of one page within the limitation of the printer This will initialize the printer to regard printing new
43. the hard disk If you want much faster system then this swap disk must be clean and large enough Raster Image Processor RIP needs lots of memory and larger hard disk space for higher speed processing Therefore you re always recommended to manage your booting hard disk to be clean and large enough System Management Suggested System Setup If possible use the SCSI type Hard disk and SCSI controller for better speed and stability If you need to use a generic EID type Hard disk then you re recommended to use higher speed hard disk ex spindle speed 7000rpm is better than 5000rpm The SCSI hard disk needs a SCSI control adapter generally Julai RELI a Boot Hard Disk G Printer Plotter ith Three i TFAO Dr a A Rip soltware amp Utility J Swap Space Ripping Process hi Diak Data Hard Disk D __ with RAM DATA Load by Rip EPS PSTIN AJPG t a Hack ug data Mehak Share Tips to speed up processing performance Installation of exact version of software driver for main board Higher speed CPU Larger RAM memory Higher Hard disk speed Larger Hard disk space and Clean sectors Higher speed LAN card Higher speed Network HUB Shorter cable length between PC and Printer CONOoaRWN B 13 System Installation Network Printing There are several methods of printer sharing in the network If you use the network system your printer can be shared by printer shar
44. will be automatically created Queue Name pee 1 Type in whatever name you prefer teh EE E lupus Scan folder hot folder Ne Ei Adore Specify or create physical folder to monitor Eoi w Backup Folder Foa The Rip will automatically create backup folder in the hot folder Scan CATNSAp Setup wOuevet Grand Shema W Queue J Force Delete Backup CAYTNESHipWSrtupWOureueW Grand Sherpa SI Uuni gan 1 Delete original image when deleting it in the Rip s queues l Backup to backup folder Jetions When you delete the file in Rip s queues the original image will When goio tha Jeb source Na Farce Delete be backed up in backup folder Beckue 1o Ceclup belder Scan Interval Scan Interval 1000 milliseconds 1 1000 sac Interval time of monitoring the folder 1 millisecond is 1 1000 second Primer Satap Printer Setup Link of TPS file Prirnor Grand Sherpa 3 i If you select a specific printer and print environment setup TPS Printer Setup Grand Sherpa Sips to current queue the tps setting will be applied to all files in the queue when loading the files D 10 Global Control TOPAZ Rip will create Virtual Printer together with the creation of Hot folder automatically Any printer can print a job into the Rip through TOPAZ Virtual Printer Pre defined input queue is containing all information of printing environment and connected with a specific printer Virtual Printer means making this input queue as print
45. 6 Auto Print Enabling automatic Riprint process for all jobs in Print queue After printing all jobs will be sent to Finish queue 7 Expand Print queue Window Expand the Print queue window in case of so many printing jobs Job Management in Finish Queue 1 2 3 Finish Jobs 2 Printer File Mame Page Status Start Time End Time 1 Reprint Send the selected job to Print queue again for reprinting 2 Delete Delete the selected job Back up file can be made depending on option settings under the backup folder of the specific hot folder 3 Expand Finish Queue Window Expand the Finish queue window in case that there re so many finish jobs after printing TOPAZAIP Uo you want to delete all Finish Jobs al li click Wes delete all Finish Jobs and ex click Wo not delete Finish Jobs and exif lPclice cancel mot xi Ye Ce Ene When you try to close the program with remaining jobs in the Finish queue window the below message will appear If you select yes the remaining finish jobs will be deleted and the program will be closed If you select no the remaining finish jobs will be shown in the next time of program running If you select cancel the program will not be closed In each queue window you can use Delete key to delete any job in the queue window You can move any jobs to any queue windows by simple mouse dragging C 13 First Running Context Menu for Job Management
46. 600an Quallty_1 70 lem La HPSSON WY AannerW Tyvek GP roduct 160 im Wa HPSS00_UY_ColorastVinyl_600Max Quallty_133 lem ja HPSS UY Cnolaortaat vinyl AP raduct 135 ier 4 HPSSO0_UY_ColonucentBack 600Max Quality_150 lem Ws HE SSUULUYColorlucentack SUUMroduct_ Ibi icm aJ HPSS00_UY AWC vated Paper B00Max Cuality_ 140 icm Ws HPSSUULUV H WC oatediaper bul roduct_I3uicm We HPSS00_UV Puly ProBackedi AD _600Max Quality 270 icin Ww HPSS00_UY_PolyProBacked AD 600Product_l60 icm a HPSSO0_UY_PoulyProb00Max Duality 150 ici a HPSSO0_UY PolyPro_600Product_180 icm aJ HPSS WY SecrimManner Max Quality 2M iem Wa HPSSO0_UY_ScrimBanner_600Product_400 icm System Installation Program Installation Prepare your PC in spec for installation of TOPAZ Rip software It is advised to follow the guide of TOPAZ Rip Installation Wizard during the whole procedure System Requirements Windows 2003 XP NT and 2000 or higher 800 MHz Pentium III PC or higher 64MB RAM or more More than 256 MB is recommended 3 GB free space on hard disk or more More than 5 GB free space on SCSI hard disk is recommended Higher specification with dual CPU is recommended for simultaneous printing purpose CD ROM or DVD ROM drive VGA compatible graphic card USB driver for security lock key Starting Installation Insert program CD in your CD rom or DVD rom and run SETUP EXE file in the CD Setup program will run automatically after inserting a
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48. Auto Prini Printer File Hama Paga Per Gran TL Flaps 2 Grand Shepa 5 PENCIL of Eroll 9 Saase Chaar Eror G Error Clear method Paint Jols E Piipse Finieh Johs F Impi Jokes Prini Jobe E INPUT JOB s CONTEXT Layout Changing the interface into Layout mode Create Preview Making preview image and pre ripping Send to Print job Sending the selected job to Print queue Delete Deleting the selected job Duplicate Duplicate the current job in the queue Send to Finish job Sending the selected job to Finish queue Nesting information Find and restore components of the nest Clear Error Clearing error and resume the engine PRINT JOB s CONTEXT Print Pause Cancel Print the job and pause or cancel printing Set Break Stop auto printing at the selected job Delete Duplicate The same as described above Send to Input job Sending the selected job to Input queue Send to Finish job Clear Error The same as described above FINISH JOB s CONTEXT Reprint Sending the selected job to Print queue Delete Duplicate Send to Input job The same as described above This error clear method for unknown file or not interpretable file from the system memory Error clearing is executed after terminating engine and the engine will run again automatically after clearing If error message appears or if you d like to stop the process and clear the error use this function in the right click contex
49. CC profiles you must select correctly matched linearization file tlc Sometimes specific profiles do not require linearization because they already include linearization information in them Select a certain matched linearization file in the pull down list box The list box will show linearization files prepared for the printer you selected Files are located in TNSRip lCCProfile Printer_name folder If you d like to edit linearization curve press Modify 4 button Linearisation Default the ILE RAL tle CM ELeLmBc te CM ELeLmbC_VDot the CM YELeLmLk ic te CM YeELeLmLkiC_ Dot tle CM YELeLmLyLkac tle Default the DotGain 1p tle DotGain1 5p tle DotGain2lp tlc Modify Linearization Curve viewing and editing tool Check All Curve to edit all curves weak Linearigotion Curve A together by applying reference color curves or by Mouse and Arrow Key Up Down Lef Fight is used to adit each pein moving mid tone with the slide control Wider Conrad ig uted to eda amopihhy bar Color Cursa Cyan v Lee Creaton Date 206 1220 You can edil each CMYK s ite a 3 Deen ace Max ink cut value Pins ini Limi i c lick any point and type values manually Cyani for curve moditication w hasan H Yellow FS I Select which color to edit the curve of it Black 15 ED Use suggested sample curve types Input 2 00 for your convenience if you want s Guinea 73 a Apply currently selected
50. Creedin PromteMan profiling software a ae a ee Ml I wee Gas PAS DONE ColorVision Global Control Change Options Change Options button will open a pop up window for environmental settings There re 2 tabs Display and Postscript in the window Changes Options Changes Options Display PostScript r Display PostScript Unit BoundingBox Adjustment Current Unik Language 0 0000 mam Current Language Engish In Display Tab you can control your preferred measuring unit among 6 kinds You can also select your preferred language between English Germany and Korean Spanish French Italian and other languages will be added in version 10 English millimeter Korean German In Postscript Tab there re various parameters for postscript language treatment Currently version 9 0 allows user s adjustment of Bounding box image size defined by Postscript in PS PDF of EPS files This is especially useful for small format printing like A4 or A3 Every machine has its own mechanical margin of size and the unique values are included in PPD file However created PS PDF of EPS files by applying these PPD file have wrong bounding box information sometimes and it effects on shift effect of print output User can precisely control the size of bounding box in this tab of Change Options window You need to be cautious that value means cropping reducing area and
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52. Ee rTable tec Ki SOT Oo 0G Bo Mien Sf Scr Table Hi Bi 133 53 1280 ee 12 h POF LG ee LPO File Narva File Type SpecialColor Replacement Table t6 F 26 Job Control It is possible to change colors of Named Spot from the spot channel of the source image In this way you can change colors with maintaining the gradient or any vector effect of the target color When using Adobe Photoshop follow the steps to add Spot channel layer as below Using desired selection tool like Magic Wand select area you wish to print using the spot color Click arrow button on Channel tab to display channel menu Select New Spot Channel to open Add Spot Channel dialog Edit the name opacity and colors for your Spot channel Click Ok to save your changes and save the file including the Spot channel When using Adobe Illustrator follow the steps to add Spot channel layer as below Click arrow button on Swatch tab of Color tool Click New Swatch from the menu Within the Add Swatch dialog define name color type and color Color type should be Spot Click OK to save changes and close Add Swatch dialog window Use the new swatch for any objects or fills for your preference Save your image as Al or EPS file including the Spot channel Ge i i IE d LE re a Pre Merges Lpp hyra i 3 a eG Oss are eer r i lp ikasia i G pra Lb F 4 _ _ _ FE ET Spot channels in Adobe Photo
53. GB Vector e a S P e aa when e o Embedded oronles tan bersed i p Use Output ICC profe Output ICC profile can be selected In I I general it is CMYK profile If you re using i Universal WinPrinter driver output ICE needs to be RGB In special case you l Image can call n color profiles like CMYKRGB e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e o e e o e e e e e e e e e e e e o u e e E e C cyan Magenta Yelow Black f Rendering intents are mapping I I I I I Red LJGreen _ Blue algorithm to interpolate out of gamut points into the range of printable color Penal gamut Separately selectable for Image and Vector Preserve Hue option is P tual ka O i Shagi Sieuh useful to maintain brand colors without C cyan Magenta ellow Black effect of mixing rule from ICC profiles 1 Preserve Pure Hue l oono o Al an a ee a PF SFS S S a a S on aia S ea a S S S a ee ca S S S S S S cae em a S o i l l em ee ee ee eee 1 Spot color replacement can be done l I l I l i I i l I channels Multiple tables can be managed F 19 Job Control What is ICM ICM is international color matching standard solution When you use ICC profile for color matching you need to activate Use CMS check box for ICM settings including input ICC profile output ICC profile rendering intent color model and etc ICC profiles are required to maintain the absolute colors to be represented by any kind of devi
54. Grid or Quick Crop In each case results can be Regular Size Tiles Set or Irregular Size Tiles Set and irregular size can be adjusted by manual input of selected tile size Tiling Practice in Various Methods Ex 1 Tiling by Size Ex 2 Tiling by Grid 4 by 4 et Ei E Shag HH i iaz Siew Bis a aE ee a H i a i Sel rt pros d Tiles are created homogeneously over the whole area of the output image Tiles should be regularly divided in exactly same size The unit tile size is Tile size can be adjusted individually by clicking calculated from dividing the output size by number Select icon on the tool bar and point a certain tile of grids And manually type in size value you prefer Ex 3 Tile Size Adjustment m E OE niori Shee eeu t b A i S B khan Dr SE Sly gar E im EA Toy Y JE om Adjusted Tiles set from Ex 2 Tile Size Adjustment cannot increase total tile numbers So vertical size cannot be adjusted with selecting Ex 4 Tiling by Quick Crop OOt bottom tiles and horizontal size mayen Tiles can be created very easily cannot be adjusted with selecting ot pec Sie WOR CR ight side tiles You cannot adjust the na by using Quick Crop however ng J total number of tiles is fixed to 9 size of bottom right edge tile at all in this case Click Quick Crop icon on the tool bar and drag the mouse in any direction on the preview image to create a certain area 9 tiles w
55. Java Runtime Environment gt E3 Product Manager Camtasia Studio 3 98 TOPAZRIP Ver 40 m FRF gt TOPAZRIP Ver 9 0 on the Web TOPAZRIP Ver 9 0 6 Uninstall TOPAZRIP Ver 9 0 B 7 System Installation Running Product Manager program After completion of installation and rebooting Product Manager program will run automatically because it is required to add at least 1 printer before running TOPAZ Rip program i Product Manager Install CHS packages for the adiad pirentiries CHS package includes data retated wah color matching like linearization cures CC profiles or color comection data Upgrade free or charged upgrede of your program Manage your program to be the lates version Upgrade your lack key for new drivers or new functions Add Printers Wizard Sian ADC PRINTERS Wirad i H youne using printers of USE port it is mguinad to install the wands diver fired and connect the printer to be of line status im advance Thee will help ihe program find the conedt active USE port Prese Next bution to continua B 8 Press Add Printers button In general TOPAZ Rip software can run without installation of a specific printer s windows driver However in case of printers using USB port it is required to install windows printer driver fist and connect the printer into online status to find the correct and active USB port USB port appears only when the device is connected under plug an
56. Job Control with only difference of TPS saving option which Job Control cannot provides You can overwrite or add new TPS file when clicking OK button after modification of current TPS settings Existing TPS files can be deleted or renamed in Printer Setup dialog window D 9 Global Control Input Queue Setup When clicking Input Queue Setup icon you can see currently built input queues Those input queues are linked to physical locations we call it Hot Folder The Rip software monitors those Hot folders if there re new files or not and if there are the Rip software loads the files with pre defined specific TPS data linked with the input queue Input Queue Setup FI Queue Queue 2 Queue 3 Quaue List hlge hdntosh C WATAN hl fielo Queue activity check button activates specific input queues If any queue is not checked the Rip will not monitor the queue Hot folder any more Help F Activate Queue C Deactivate Queue Properties Tyme Hothobder Scan Folder DoWoon When you press New or Modify button you can Dachup Polder Deon Wacko i a EEE EH create or edit parameters of the hot folder You ana nseni neal can determine a specific folder linked with a Cipion Backup to Backup folder specific TPS file You can select your hot folders __ __ Cpo by selecting existing blank folder Or if you specify non existing folder name the hot folder and backup folder
57. Matte K Click the button to proceed OMTESS SH hobo K OMYESS55Matba k Select Color mode you d like to use Normally a specific printer allows limited sets of color mode like CMYK CMYKLcLm Gray CMYKOrGr and etc If you d like to customize your inkset you can select color modes which includes S color which can be changed into any color There re limited printers allow this option Hare CHMYRI oi moat Colic eho E pkey Sihua Pama Crie Capa aern Lei Oi mary Gob Sh 1 Wa Ce et i Cine al uae Polar F opium Bk Erua You can type your color mode name e g CMYKLcLmOrGr Primary color is defined already e g CMYKLcLm for CMYKLcLmSS and CMYK for CMYKSSSS You can add colors for S now Click Add button Sot Colber Channel Add If you have developed your customized color mode it ll be shown in the list e g CMYKLcLmMWW or CMYKLcLmOrGr for CMTYLcLmSS color mode You can edit or delete the existing color modes or you can create new color mode here Click New button for example ac Color Channel Add Source Pile Spot Cobar oi You can select colors from the list If you defined any spot colors already you ll see them in User Spot Color list Also you can select any from default colors in Default Spot Color list If you have any spot channel in source image it ll be shown in Source File Spot Color list If you cannot find your co
58. PAZ Sherry Nesting users can load multiple images and run re scaling overlay re positioning rotation freely without any load of calculation time or CPU You can copy the same images in the nested layout too where other images are mixed together The nested Job is only a few or tens of KB size really small however big the original images are can be Riprinted Ripping and printing on the fly in TOPAZ Job manager in a flash without regarding the size of nested job as well as individual images This is the main differentiated feature of TOPAZ Rip from others Support EPS TIFF JPEG file format and PS and PDF format Supporting Multi pare PS and PDF files Available from Feb 2006 User can select pages to print and make layout settings to each page differently Crop mark and annotation to each image on the nested layout Available from Feb 2006 abinry Panel Ae Got view Meig Hele oe 3 at ma gg ai ao foo bate bELESL Lik Has Cai o Gisa Pait map Ppl betty dp tied dy ay Copy Come Num Miaria 5000 mm Mowi i Mm Margin 0 0000 mm Total Size i 106 i 2 SF mm Aas Layout Management TOPAZ Sherry Nesting Overview TOPAZ Sherry Nesting will be run as an independent program window when clicking Nesting icon see red box in the below image of tool bar in Job Manager mode a If there s no images in Input Queue window Sherry Nesting program will not run If there
59. T fan Paing F omais E F gr e le E Cima SE a ae a F Frisko k ie Gra iii An Fan Paii NLA mE MALI L ja Re iy n o r u T se mos s er ee e i g Ly Pariis Ditag F sa Brite baup pir Dait Be 2 ually 1 ERA DEDA wA Gij E Ani IMA I f ri h B tl Pa e Finish Jaia CF bie The hiir i A AT Eel Thee F A Eton ea i WET PROF eo i FET ROFI AM Ecowatmsnce ape i FET ORS FL wal Pi i G 20 INFORMATION eAbout Menu H 2 eUpgrade and Customer support H 2 eContact us H 2 H 1 Information About Menu _ Bee Feu ji When you click About menu icon you will see a window which describes Serial number Version Copyright and End user license agreement information When you successfully install RIP in your windows system you must check the serial number shown in the About dialogue box You re recommended to write down the number and keep it carefully The number will be used for upgrade and customer support About TOPASHIP ae Serial Not IEIMEATI Ver LI a aa Copyright C TER PIE IMAGEN All right reserved rA Check your version and serial number For future update or technical support ani pot Lad User Licences Agreement A PLEASE RETURN ANY ACCOMPANYING REGISTRATION FORM TO RECEIVE REGISTA MOTI TO USER i THIS A CONTRACT BETWEEN YOU AND IMAGEN KOREA CIMA Blane LABI T e AUY INCORPORATED UNDER TH
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61. _TIL400 Standard Reference ink Profile Epson Pig4C Glossy Photo GCAIO v Confirm the name of ICC profile and select one of the reference ink profiles provided in the list Press Profile Generation button lt Back Finish Cancel Help Status bar will be filled with green color and ICC profile will be created The program will show a message window saying Profile Generation Complete Next button will change into Finish button after create ICC profile creation Press Finish button to go to Color Management Setup process which is the final step of CMS in TOPAZ Rip Color Management Color Management Setup As described previously one of the distinct feature in TOPAZ Rip CMS is ICC independency TOPAZ Rip is using ICC profiles as a basement of color control and the Rip presents acceptable quality even without using ICC profiles especially for narrow gamut of colors very low total ink limits special printing media which can be hardly measured by spectrometers Our recommendation is as below 1 Changed Ink You re highly advised to develop new ICC profile basement 2 Changed media If you re using the same ink and the media is not so different from the previous media the ICC profile has been developed for you can keep using the same ICC profile with adjusting ink color levels total ink limits and linearization curves Additional adjustment can be done by various color adjustment tools 3
62. a iri Lini i Co Cet After trials and errors print the image in full size by dragging it to print queue and press print button C 3 First Running Getting Started with CMS Run Product Manager to install a specific printer driver and required standard CMS package Run TOPAZ Rip main program and press Color Environment Manager button ie Product Manages Add printers to wee in the Rip gomeaca Install CMS packages for tho added printers MS package includes data related wth color matching lke linearization curese ICC profiles or color conection data Upgrade fre i chaeged upgrade f your program lt Maraga your prognaen bo be Lhe labeat wersai Upgrade your lock key for new divers or new forctions Double click the input job to change settings Ink limit analysis gt Linearization gt Gray Balance gt ICC profiling i SE gt Una ariaten h Dara omeer Goethe T Lra l Prete purga efi Giit n Prete 5 Lea 2 Profle piira ith pia poia ened Prodiee r O Chick Profiling PSST TIPE Baked app Lire rhb Loreal Prolin gereret H Sievtiedl bran Profle EPEE Baling Coke Tanig aed Pei CHE Fale TCM Gorea Taw Pamir Color adjustment and simulation Trial printing of test image to confirm the current settings of color z Gois Eretronimert Massy emin 75 C irigh Ch Sia 205 EN OREA Co A ighin irad Create your own TCM file and
63. ackage creation i Creation Ji Chose E 21 Color Management There are another 2 ways to deal with CMS Packages in TOPAZ Rip Go to TOPAZ Rip main program and select Tool menu gt Backup CMS Files and Restore CMS files options These options are useful when you d like to backup the accumulated setting files for a certain printer Too Hele CMS Backup ET oe ET R Folder to save Bachip Mes C WTNSAGWES E Product Manger EPEE E EEE E E E aiup OMS Fim m Printer List Printer Lisi for CMS Backup 1 E m Restore CMS Fies a Grand Sapa 50 oe ee ee ee oe oe Grand Sharpe Sem CMS Backup Fe cmal Tool Hala ee Ske Errererreereh Hra Wo A Ardd Primbeer Barlow CMS Fika aroa Gh PEH When you d like to install CMS packages you can use Install CMS Package tool in Product Manager program which is described before in the previous Installation Chapter B amp B Product Man agti Add printers to wee in the Rip soiewasa OMS Package Installation Wirard Minstal CMS packages fo MS package includes n lingarization cures Check CMS package to inetall Ha if there s no CMS package you d like to install in the list you can select by brewsing Glee m olhar locators insiaed Printer CMS Packape larant sheip si f RIA St rra CMS Package Insiallation KE Bal Corrondly betaling CMS Pacakaga te E Profile tH H SA PoP
64. al control dialog window with many tabs S pages for eee settings fever EPSON Styloa Pra 4600 Tea OC ahitu TAKLI ETERON E A PACOLOR LA TER te EPS ee Ceara WHEE _T a i n mpira ee a a a jaia a pe ini BERBER a Lire m is bitin ree LLCS PRS A ey Me eV a be EET 2 fea _ My it ziin va ae i ste cS TANIN salty Fem H Pi mhii bh a s DPN 1440 pir A hre Te a a A ailal BE MEA HS ede a In Modify Printer Setup dialog window you ll be able to access to all dialog windows for preparing printing environment which will be saved as TPS file TPS Separate windows for different settings are accessible by tab movement General Tab Printer Port information and all setting information summary of current TPS Image Layout Tab Paper size margin scaling rotation mirroring registration and etc Print Options Tab Color model media setup resolution passes dot screen and linear curve Color Profiles Tab Input output profiles rendering intents and spot color replacement Color Adjustment Tab level control brightness gamma tweak curve and black enhancement Postscript Tab Ripping resolution Anti aliasing Interpolation Ignore vector spot and etc Cutting Option tab Cut server management for contour cutting option There are Detail information for each dialog windows will be treated with in Job Control Chapter later As described previously each dialog is almost the same with that of
65. aoo Makar fier i i p Driva Hot folder You can configure Adobe PS driver Acrobat reader Macintosh a g ji Job0001 Al Settings by modification of parameters Acrobat me f Eg Job 0002 p Of the PS driver which can be accessed r Anne Talk ShA mi Jobbik pE einer Seep with pushing properties button view O ee You can also edit the TOPAZ TNS HOW BIS Luecgreer hy P i 1 1 sulting 308 T Virtual Port which is linked with the l input Queue Virtual Printer driver with access to edit ihi aie ai port option You can modify parameters Phot imoti Sirriy FE c 8 kmg cel T T T e of virtual port like Job Naming Rule and Phol di Mm j Brive Ihe the remo jet rip others Painimi to print the E 5 E Dupa Foka W You ll see automatically created Virtual Printer Driver ENTE Ci You can select it and press Print button from any application F Uses defined Riar borisi uss Pi Hare farat fetsam Pririlier Name hp pse Pail sets po99 es Properties F iinstal dh Mmm cei type Grand Sherpa SU Ghats TOPAZRIP i Pursition 3 HF JET PRO i Pie ne TOPAZA Search OK Eanes Nettice UMEtiac Print into tle L Print range tus Pra i Queu TOPAZ PIP Print urii D 11 Global Control Color Management Wizard TOPAZ Rip provides very practical and intuitive Color Environment Manager to create Linearization curves and ICC profiles Advanced users can get accurate colors by
66. ata which is not included in TPS parameters You can select the preferred TPS file in the list and modify it by clicking of Advanced Setup button It is easy to modify color related parameters with using one of the prepared TCM files If you select any of CMS file the TPS file s color related parameters will be changed by referring to the selected TCM file When you add delete edit Save Printer Setup E gt Pile List Double Chick aipoty bo Printer Setup hama Priben Setup Fie i Pea CMM Teei Tiei es e A OLOR LATER T shirts Taies A CMA PT PRST Thats Pied eps PO A Tt ete Hoe LEATHAN Waren Boek Pe PLE Pre Med Wieder _ vier TILT SOLaps Shyu Pind BEL tps va Pre So Ca Cont Pridi feeb Ala PSSA Shae Te ST Pte Phe bee CEDC press OK after modification you can overwrite or rename the TPS file in addition D 7 Global Control First of all you need to select the correct port for the activated printer When you add a new printer you can select the correct printing port which is automatically activated if the printer is connected If you added your printer without connection or if you d like to change port you need to modify your port information here There re 2 things to watch in port selection If you re using plug amp play ports like USB or Firewire you ll not be able to find correct port in the list if the printer is not connected It is required to connect the printer
67. ble range will be recommended for better results Ink cut can be lowered but cannot be increased after completion of linearization later in the color correction step MYK CYK CMK CMY TETTESTE een ne SETE J ts E abt i EE E TTT over 300 Color Management Linearization After completion of ink limit determination in the previous step and press Next button The next step is linearization process with using spectrometers for measuring of chart data Press Next button after selection of device and printing of linearization chart Steps gt Print Linearisation Chari Hariram Fear KFie DTP Sbp Prd Laana rete It is recommended to fill full width area by rotation and copy option here Print Linearization Chart TOPAZ Rip contains different linearization charts For each different measurement device The images are located in TNSRip Calibration folder You can rotate or mirror the image for customized printing vi ee Hill AHHH i r poole tty anaas2s2 meen DINN MNN saunai LAAALAAALLLKE r C ome ease TTT BATHI aa r ARA _ SEGEe E ESE EEE DTP41 linearization chart La P n E E ye One linearization chart Jan ts Pee do Liebe Lee Lear Lar Spectrolino linearization chart E 6 ta Back _ Ment gt Neat gt Concel Cancel Hip Measurement Device TOPAZ Rip supports direct connection to various spect
68. button to get your lock key updated E Spark emote Lock updater Ver 1 0 Add printers i use in the Fip software Install GMS grace dagen for io adda pronto CMS package includes data retated wah color matching like linearization cures PCC profiles or color comection data Ths code with Lock DL H code miamalch with Lock ID then You can nol update in Lock Leek Tad U Update code ix One by one S Upgrade Irmi or charged upyrede of your peogeen Manage your program to be ihe latest Adds J aL parade your back k y For ree diers or riw T UPDATE Code Gepyright 005 200 Spark AUSCLENT promam Loestion EQ INSRp dis Baspidri CoLlanquign ei Cy Bachup olockhive Fol lt lt wa When you press Close button TOPAZ Rip main Secrete SPs ei ip program will run automatically Product Manager l 1 n r program can be accessed in any time later aha Lock Update Code File i mgg B 12 System Installation Hardware Lock Troubleshooting If your Lock Key is damaged by electric or physical shock you must change the Lock Key with help of software provider or authorized dealer If Time over message appears on your system it means that your lock isthe Time limited version for demonstration purpose In this case please contact your provider or authorized dealer for upgrading the lock into commercial version TI ie on T ii T va Soc LB Generally Windows system uses Swap memory in boot
69. ces like monitor scanner camera or printer Printer Calibrator L a b CMYK Color Conversion in ideal and real cases ICC profile creation by ICC Profiler with calibrator E a a een ee ey fp De ee ee ee A Device Presentation Original Image File a Ideal Case Pure White a sut DD papom l RGE P L a b CMYK 1 l lt 1 Monitor Calibrator L a b RGB l _ al 1 I b Practical Case Different Red I gme l cass OD ire Pare l i kak 4 I F Ee e Ar i T You can use scanner or camera ICC profile for Input ICC if you know those exactly You can use reference Press Print ICC profile for Input ICC during proofing purpose However we use default Input ICC profile in most of practical cases Please be careful to use exactly matched RGB color management set Overall color Ihe PCS Enix management set information is included in TCM file and the TCM file is linked with other gt subsidiary files like TMI TLC ICC and LUT ppe E For example XXX TCM file should be linked has Sere ee aan with XXX TMI XXX TLC XXX ICC and a E E T pisille XXX LUT files For proofing only In general case we re focusing on Output ICC profile which converts ideal colors into presentable colors within the limit of color gamut for a specific printing environment However it is also important to know exact color of source image youd like to print first If you know where the source image comes from camera
70. cult to control the curves of light inks We found the optimal curve through the intensive study and we show the smoothest interchange between light colors and normal colors 12 Rigidly structured file management TOPAZ Product Manager module helps users install a specific printer driver with exact settings and required color profiles TOPAZ Color Environment Manager program manages CMS settings including printer settings tos color matching settings tcm linearization curves tlc tweak curves lut media profiles tmi ICC profiles icc or icm black enhancement tables gb and etc all together Users can import or distribute CMS package flexibly Also when opening rip job package remains the same even if rip crashes or was normally closed because job package file saves all job information TOPAZ Rip also allows users to save the current job settings immediately without regarding each components of files as a so called JOB PACKAGE 13 No limitation in Super scale printing TOPAZ is the fastest Rip in super scale very long printing without load of time and cpu TOPAZ unique interpolation algorithm will enhance the scaled up image quality too This is the unique feature of TOPAZ and non of others cannot mimic this We have very special structure in treating with large image files There s no limitation of printing length in TOPAZ Rip 500m long printing is possible if there s real 500m long media roll with the same performance as s
71. d In the end of the strip release the button If you have DTP41 insert the printed chart with align the orders and straight direction You need to press a button in each step of strip measurement Edit Lingarigation curva Edit Linaarisaton curve It was measured by Spectrometer or Densitonater Mouse and Arow Key Up Gown Lett Alyhi fe used in edit each polni T q ll i er Gobar Carag ee Cyan After completion of measurement press Edit button to check the curves If some or all of the curves are not smooth enough you can measure again by pressing any cell of target column and pressing Start button again If there s only one or two nodes of peak you can easily edit the curve graphically Press OK after graphical editing of the curves i rT Ingul Chinu Bes ee ss 8 Cancel E 7 Color Management Curve editing is possible by both of typing values and graphical mouse dragging Press Next button after completion of linearization curve editing in spread sheet and graphic window for the next step This kind of curves like left picture need to be edited Easy curve edition by using mouse click Slepo gt Moeouure Linwaricahorm Charl Edit Linearisaton cure Mossuremort device status Connected Edit Linearigathon cume It was meacueed by Spectrometer or Densitomater Mouse and Arow Key Up Down Lett Right Is used to edit each polni Ei a
72. d Plotter a REET he oe to os Plotter Setup Job Setup Plotter 4 ULTIMA SEC Changes Options Add Plotter Wirard A SAlegt planer t inatall installed Plotier J Manulaclurg 2 Flotar HPGL Compatible IMAGEN KONEA OC TINIA a a ULTIMA SC 1400 MU UN eS ULTIMA SC 1400 2 Platter File Hara CIULTIMA SC H lany wanes D001 cii F 38 Job Control Job Mark Setup TE E o A n aX ss Ee oy Pi Ti Click Job Mark Setup icon on the Job Control tool set bar You ll see Page Mark Setup dialog window In this window you can access to various options for crop mark and sewing mark Page Mark Setup elcrop Mark MM Black 50 Crop Mar Black 50 Crop mark Color Mark Type Check box of Crop mark Use or not use ON Moo OFF 2 Crop mark Type rg Le Sewing Mark Ma ge ita 008 we e Sewing mark Color Check box of Sewing mark ON 10 0000 OFF 20 0000 mm Use or not use j i cilia niacin The crop mark and Sewing mark have dot on off mode These values are length of colored mark line and length of distance SS 2 between mark lines In the Off area printer does not print anything balls man ADS white print area to distinguish the mark lines in dark printing area a Result on olf o inon OF oan n aS om 8 d Crop Mark Line sewing Mark Line orm of F 39 Job Control Tips for Mark Setup Printing Spe
73. d play environment System Installation Add Printers Wirard Ea Lu select a printer io add Pa H there s mo printer you re finding in the list and you have a disk piyaded en addiion for thie puede press in tho disk buran installed onnies 0 marufechunor 7 ponter models 6 aie ne z j PGI rand Phapa aT PRC AD Spirdlot EPSON perdet H FEI YEUNG UNION speedtet i7 aeons IMAGENEORE A KEUAIOO KWANGEO rl PMR MUTOH RAGLAND SEIKO SEV AIRSHIP __inthe desk Add Primiera Wizard F select printer port io use Withara s no port io use you can generate new m Pon Selection LETI THS LPT port LS PTI eer eke THE USE a it hew Fost 60 2800 series 65 Sch A TNS USA TFC WinDire Netice UMS tanh USDI Wind he pee 2400 eres tax USAI Windies hp pic 24 wiris US BO Hinir ranan Wes Cb EAH USAGE Wietre Cart Wein LPT Hinir Acabat POF Whiter i CAiecuments and Setinge All Users WHE AFA W pai Hini Mwa Wn AA T per Sa agrios Port Type M Select preferred printer in the list and press Next button Back Cancel TNS TCP IP Port Purl number 9100 wo eee Se B 9 address 1 168 Select port in the list or create new TCP IP port for yourself k System Installation Add Primine Wired Define the customized printer name and determine to use the Te Ca Goa A T gents reine of veer Daora nese by wing printer as a defau
74. d that you cautiously analyze the printed chart and find the best values with referring to our guideline Details are the same with Professional Profiling process Color Management Sheol i Setilng CHM YE Max Ink amp Toial Ink Limit fete Stylus Pro 4500 Lite of Imbi ines con be eciusted mare accurately by aan Ba Crah ACE coers in Khe prinbed chart E F i t E J Bi j E i lt n TOFA m 2 Sang Cte Phat Bak oh ota Te Lit ar Burd each fot wae dhiki bes cetervered wehbe dots not couse Plann coding beadra pudina and other artelactirg ccs Wil Chet reetrietoh naia af C P Y kocan ba sija te ee Tolon BCA CVSS CA piora pi dirian eh Oraa deed plia iak Aio boig ri mA ha ee mp be pe e cues aed erqures trot tae proper ar of A e ped on be pope during pinkie TAN Ded lt Back Nant gt Cantal Halp Default CMS Name Name of TCM file will be created automatically with parameter information of the previous step e g Printer_color_paper_resolution_pass_ option You can edit the name with your own naming rule Print Ink Limit Chart TOPAZ Rip provides 2 different size of Ink Limit Chart 270 6mm X 155 2mm and 500 7mm X 315 7mm Print the chart with applying rotate mirror and copy option If required It is recommended to fill full width area Status bar will be filled green during printing Setting CMYK Max Ink amp Total Ink Limit You have printed ink limit chart now
75. detailed parameters in drivers are available for almost all printers in the market New drivers for recent spectrophotometers Support of contour cutting for hybrid cutters and separate cutters with cut server COLOR PROFILING New ink limit chart and new gray balance chart Complete Quick Profiling wizard for linearization gray balancing and profiling without spectrometers nor profilers Complete Professional Profiling wizard for professional users equipped with spectrometers and 3 party profilers COLOR CONTROL Advanced Spot color ink definition and Spot color replacement option Support of Embedded input profiles and various input profiles in a single file Advanced linearization curve adjustment and additional curve tweaking option New Color enhancement tool to enhance density of shadows by adding additional ink Black enhancement tool to add K to K as well as CMY to K especially for dark black background for backlits TILING amp NESTING Mouse control of tiles for size adjustment move add or delete Auto nesting function and auto positioning feature Margin Copy and repeat function in nesting layout Multi page nesting for PDF files MANAGEMENT Easy setting of printer and port Automatic creation of Virtual Printers in generation of input queues Job Package management as well as TPS Topaz Printing Settings management Quick access to job settings by hot printers option Table
76. e lamoormy TPS TEMPORARY TPS User can modify any print and color settings In the currently mimicked TPS for temporary use which is applied ta currently opened job only without storing TPS information alter the usage Global Control Global Control Windows and Job Control Windows As described before original TPS file can be accessed through Global Control only and temporary TPS setting can be edited through Job Control TPS creation and modification is processed on various windows for each different purpose Dialog windows from Print Setup button of Global Control is very similar with those from a number of icons of Job Control The main difference is to save changed data or not Job Control does not allow saving TPS file and only applies parameter change to current job only Global control is for uncertain jobs and Job control is for the current specific job This is why there s a simulation preview window in Job control windows only Global Control Windows 1 User can add delete ports 2 User can add modify delete TPS files Original TPS file Color Matching Setup TCM Layout Print option Color Adjust Quility n To T mme nae PIE a aire Len Lele Pints Di 7 L Select another Tab Heleri another Tab Job Control Windows 1 User cannot add delete ports 2 User cannot add modify delete TPS files Temporary TPS file Color Matching Setup TCM
77. e option or you can use hardware switch device But printers plotters supporting TCP IP can be accessed from any computer in the network system with network HUB without sharing option Network printers TCP IP have their own IP address and Subnet mask You need to set correct address share LPT Printer Network l HUE ohare aiir en TCP IP Printer USB E Printer Printer share pa TCP IP port nul IP acdreass KAN ANNANN ANN Printer thee LPT port JERE Hos Macintosh aL In case of file transfer between IBM PC and mm hisdinibel Macintosh Windows NT professional or 2000 XP professional OS supports NTFS file format Hard disk format to be recognized by Mac system directly In other cases it is required to use special AppleTalk communication program TOPAZ Rip provides it s own AppleTalk module TOPAZ MacLink in option Other programs like MacLAN or DAVE are commercially available in the market fae NTFS format Eee hard disk Macintosh Modem connection or USB connection omp meme eee Frinter B 14 System Installation Server Client Workflow in Network One of the major benefits the Rip software brings is Server feature The Rip software supports MIMO Multi inout Multi output high production environment for any complicated multi user printing workflow With Virtual Printer Driver option if you just click print button of your any desi
78. e dot and supercell technology together and guarantees the best output quality when using both technologies together with TOPAZ RIP s proprietary screen technology and color separation algorithm F 15 Job Control Examples of different screens provided in TOPAZ Rip Options Spot size Large Normal medium and small Application Photo and Graphic complex data High DPI printing ex 1440dpi Correct and accurate printing Speed High Halftone Screen a es Options Spot type LPI Angle Application Photo and Graphic complex data Normal resolution printing Speed High Cluster Screen Options Spot type LPI Angle Application Vector Graphics or Special effects Speed High Options none Application Photo and Graphic complex data Low amp medium DPI printing ex 300 600dpi Speed Low special screen The rip provides other screens like Options none stochastic SF screen SX diffusion Application Photo and Graphic complex data and FX diffusion High DPI printing ex 1440dpi speed Relatively low All screens in the Rip except for Diffusion screens are applied with TOPAZ Rip s proprietary robust QuBis Screen Technology which enables the smoothest gradation and the finest dithering patterns F 16 Job Control Linearization Linearization is color gradient calibration tool of each CMYK plane Linearization is very important technology in raster image processor When you use I
79. e during raster image processing by the Rip Engine Ripping speed will be lowered but it is useful for low resolution image Resample Bicubic TOPAZ Bicubic TM interpolation algorithm for high quality resampling outside of the Rip engine After raster image processing Pixel Resize Pixel resize resampling is simple method of copying pixels to enlarge the image for speedy ripping and printing Global spot color options You can ignore vector object in spot channel of the source image by checking Ignore Spot Color Object option here F 35 Job Detall Setup G k Profikes Cutting Optia General Codor Adjust imaga Layout Prr Optom PostScript Quay Resolution Pesemnple Piva Resize Pwal pariza C Text Antialiasing _ Graphic Antishacing J Image Interpolation obs Spot Coba Processing Vector Object ignore Spot Color Obyact Job Control Job Cutting Option TOPAZ Rip is providing Cut server program for print amp cut purposes as a default option Cut server can run separately and cutting options can be adjusted here if your job is including cut contour data for cutting process Contour Cutting is an option allowing you to print an image and then use a special device to cur portions of the image To do this 1 you need to prepare a file with a specialized spot color which acts as a cut path 2 and connect the cutting device or some special hybrid device which print
80. e overall colors into redder hanipi a bluer yellowier and etc painak fecok Lincarasation Curre E PER A He w Minura ard Are Bary Uo Dome Lod Pigi bo uned to edit each pahi k Aap J oe A i el i ee Cee i 7E Tiia Cuna Cy aa ACn Leadon Dais ATEN TE Dice i direta beT SERES ee 3 Detail tuning of nodes Mapa G Click a node to adjust the input output value MA hret You can modify the node of curve by mouse dragging or typing values Figa Ii hepa eseak Linea at Cu E Hopara Lain Cima biara wri Aow Bary fio Doe Le Pigh h uned io edt sach pahi Deter AE A a Sai l ah be deed a ead Aib lean th isigan ic kabin fap ie Tiba Duaa y as Ce Trabber Dale 20 122 Oe T eRe ea dp W Ei 1 it a aaa Ls de op YE eie i aa i dips l z s C g i F 2 4 You can use the reference dot gain curves to replace the current curves After selecting a color plane anda baput HL certain sample dot gain curve click Apply to modify the T omu ER color plane And do the same thing for another color curve z B peace Co La be TA theta Top r eo i Eey Mhp Don Lef Figi hi uij io ei Tiia Ces i anad mi ada meat Cob Cora Cyan w CIAA Cure maoa Dat i AA 12 Al n Dedia Grn brh w Hisa iak Lim Cyen W N Mages These sample linearization curve types can be used Teim Ms X m sa When you have not done accurate calibration for a certain v3 a reason like lack of time or lack of calorimet
81. ed You can control the dot space of crop mark or sewing mark for saving printing time lf you have a job like the following image then you can save a lot of time in printing by setting up the mark options as below 1 Set Crop Sewing dot space like follow As you can On short ex 10mm Off ionger ex 1000mm 2 Rotate the image for time saving Printing Directio Origin ig Origin lg This Can save time This Cannot save time When you are using many crop sewing lines setup longer OFF skip distance between mark lines value and shorter ON lenath of mark line Printing Time sayes area Non moving printer head distance non print area Off option distance Skip distance Printing Direction Media When you print this type of job you can save a lot of time in this way Keep in mind that you must set the dot space for Crop mark and Sewing mark correctly F 40 Job Control Tips for Mark Setup Sewing Methods Sewing or Attaching Tiles for Big Output Job SEWING METHOD Output results Sewing Result ee ee ee i a E a E a a x pi L f ee eee eee ee a CE Y EE EE Front view Rear view Back Back Sewing method Cloth or canvas type job Bij Ex Big Banner wide placard and etc OVERLAP ATTACHING METHOD You need not print the sewing line for attaching tiles Ex adhesive paper vinyl film and etc LAYOUT MANAGEMENT eOverview of Layout Management eLayou
82. ed profiles the rip can recognize it to preserve 2 EurssvaleCuated ice tll etl Dailim consistent color workspace A EurgecaleUncoated ice i PhotoshopS0elaullMvF ic i gt For this option click the check box to ignore user s selected ICC profiles and use embedded ICC profiles PLE Ne instead FILE TYPE ICC Profile Files a il es iem CANCEL Standard Input ICC profiles for RGB and CMYK You can select any of stardard ICC profiles in the list as below pictures Standard RGB ICC profiles Standard CMYK ICC profiles EuroscaleCoated icc EuroscaleUncoated icc High end Swop icm DeFRGB icm HOM sRGB Profile icm ITU R_BT 09065Gammal 8 icm ITU R_BT 709065G3ammaz 0 icm ITU R_BT 7090655ammaz 2sR5B icm sRGB Color Space Profile icm ShandardR Ge icm JapanStandard icc Photoshop4DeFaulkcm yk icc PhotoshopSDeFaulkcm vk icc UsSheetFedUncoated icc Output ICC Profile If you created ICC profiles and TCM settings through Color Environment Management Wizard in TOPAZ Rip you can find all available ICC profiles in the list You can option other ICC profiles by opening of any of them without compatibility problem Use Output ICC Profile none 7 F 22 Job Control Rendering Intent As the picture below you can adjust detailed options of Rendering Intent by pressing Rendering Intent button 4 different rendering intents can be selected for raster Image and Vector separately I
83. een an ink limit of 85 and 90 was barely visible on the CMYK ink limit chart squares but the difference it made to the red green and blue squares on the subsequent linearization chart between 170 and 180 will be huge Combining RGB with CMYK on the same first chart enables a better ink limit choice to be made Criteria of decision for ink limit 1 Find physical burning point the starting point where the square is fully filled with ink without any white vacant area 2 Find physical wetting point the starting point where ink starts bleeding or burning Ink should not exceed the square edges and wet for a long time After drying the surface of the square should be smooth enough Total Ink Limit chart provides various mixed colors for better selection even for the range more than 300 Find the best cut with following the above criteria E 5 Wetting oint Burning Select cut point point as higher as possible I lestctnd 3 Find the ink cut point between burning point and wetting point Theoretically the color will look the same after the correct cut point However it is quite difficult to see color difference on CMYK chart especially for yellow See RGB chart below CMYK chart and refer to the difference in RGB to find the correct cut point of CMYK Lower cut point will save the ink consumption However it can cause too bright output with narrow color gamut Relatively higher value within the physically accepta
84. en Comm GE Type Tyne Tange Coker Spot color table s replacement command can be aL aches BE a eS Ni applied to Vector only or Vector and Image park Bie la Li LAB DH LAS DSi 18 Ne f Gaw Crey S0 50 50 0 DiE EVIL 90 90 90 90 together If you d like to use some color for Vector only and some other color for Vector and Image you re advised to add different color tables together for a job You can add Named colors from the source by 5 pressing Add from job button or you can add w J com any colors by pressing Add button You can edit or delete any color in the list also Fdh Special Color Replacement L Named Spot Coke L _select an Select Mone Caneel Target Color RGROS 219 143 Lc Taak Cakes Harst Color Replavcnerd Cul Type ESN se Cancel at cet 255 004 i00 100 0 CIE Lab AB fe ori EMT 88 0 Peplacesnerd Color i2h0 L270 CH O 0 295 128 0 127 0 Add Maplacement Color Cole GEIS 199 91 L Target Color ipei PA sa EET Target Gober i ia Bnd l s hws CELab j iGreen 17 0 258 Fie 94 It is possible to pick a color from the color map After completion of definition for target colors and for definition of RGB or replacement colors press OK button You can Lab colors save and manage different color tables Save Ag m x Replacement Color Type Lab Ds o ee i SEE Localoon oO Stylus Pro 4000 beh a
85. er devices The ead ee z ft uut EM sample linearization curves has same curve types for all CMYK colors Users can apply different sample types to different color plane Dot gain mean is color density difference between actual printed output and commanded color during printing If you commanded to print 50 gray and printer prints output L like 60 gray we call this case as You got 10 dot gain i ennan wo n Job Control Job Color Profiles Click Job Color Profiles tab on the Job Control window In this tab you can access to all ICC profile related setting parameters as well as spot color replacement tool Input profiles can be selectable for CMYK vector CMYK raster RGB vector and RGB raster images differently If your source image has embedded profiles inside those can be used also For rendering intent different rendering intents can be selected for Raster image and Vector image separately Also there s Preserve Hue option to allow you to maintain the original hue for part of the image by selection of color and image type raster or vector Spot color replacement settings can be accessed here You can save your own multiple Special Color Replacement Tables as many as you want Color Adjustment PostScript Cutting Option General Imagelayout Print Options Color Profiles lt e e eee E i RGB Image mSiete zN Input ICC profiles Separately i R
86. er driver which can be accessed by any other windows applications on any workstations in the network For example if you have Epson9600 printer and you have built a specific input queue or hot folder for the printer you can create a virtual printer and rename it as Epson9600_6color_ grosspaper_760dpi_photoquality or other name you prefer Then you can print from any application on any location with the pre defined settings for a certain printing environment media ink resolution quality screen and etc Virtual Printer is composed with PS postscript driver and TNS virtual port With using PS driver you can print document into PS file in windows applications like Word processor Power point Exel Corel draw Illustrator Photoshop and etc TNS virtual port is transferring the converted PS file to a certain location which must be pre defined hot folder for automatic printing process MS word f i EE PA T Windows PO jolt coed an ECEE EE TEAN OTE DETARE PowerPoint i no ENE AEREN SRN You ll see new printer driver in installed E S Kal Share p Server In your printer list as below Autocad GAD b Acrobat PDP Writer ec a Canon WEIN G oe Sorin r Bate Adobe lhistator i Graid Shema 50 Nusue TOPAZAIP windows PO X SER JET PRO l As HO Queue T OATH Freehand m S hp osc 2400 seias ne eee tcene j aed wy ho pec 2400 series fax Publisher ea ys Tal a Netice UMSitax FP
87. erated Defauh Lingssleadn ri will get Press Next button after saving of linearization curve If you press Next without saving the right error window will show Do wou want io continue Yee No wm You can change the location and name but it is advised to use the same name for linearization curve TLC ICC profile ICC or ICM curve tweaking table LUT Topaz color settings TCM and Topaz printing settings TPS during the same CMS settings E 9 Color Management Easy Profiler Level 1 Select Level 1 profiling first TOPAZ RIP provides very special tool called Easy Profiler ICC Profiling takes relatively long time 1 3 hours and efforts even if expensive 3 party profiler is in you hand now This Easy Profiler gives you an immediate creation of ICC profile without using professional 3 party profiling software It is possible because we have media properties by measuring ink color limits and total ink limit We also have tuned color noise by gray balancing process already The remaining information we need to match color is mixing rules of ink itself Confirm the name of ICC profile and select one of the reference ink profiles provided in the list Press Profile Generation button Status bar will be filled with green color and ICC profile will be created The program will show a message window saying Profile Generation Complete Next button
88. g tit Nowalet 500 Default Printer Setup tps Location l Desktop n d 2 Ei Backup Temp i E Calibration 3 Utility E colorimeter Ea e cProfile Job pPreview SP SMonitorPPD iE Rips w Setup O Spool File name hi Topaz Save is Format 1 Job Package File jpk Cancel D 6 Global Control Global Print Setup When clicking Global Print Setup icon you ll see the pop up window describing list of printer setting files TPS file to select for the currently activated printer driver I 1 I l I I PE Lute ips i Pee LARLL Pre 1 Pie Pra SEE ga 1 TPA Pa I sie hdl i l I Finaj I muje kt Paper reet 4 E di Arl Pie Cet 7 zaha ap ie et Pian et Pape Bhat Selected DSR Cee _ Tat irbs_ Foie 1 ie j ee CHETHAN ee a Bree 4 iciarewifa Boall CEEI Fame ERAS Pp CA A y rp a iiai aak prasi jai pi PSHE AUAWA Teo AT PS Call Pa Profile lots be Shyla Pro 2800 bos Perier EPSOM Styhee Pro 4600 Port Settings TPS file selection Printer Image of TPS delete Reference CMS I Scie Ce PURIGI Available ports and rename to modify create TPS _ to select List of TPS files Port settings for the selected printer You ll see all TPS files and TCM files for the selected printer driver You can select the correct port to transfer d
89. g and Contour cutting no limitation in printing size special printer drivers grand and UV Full support of file formats to import 4 active printers 2 rip engines Internal ICC profiler The specification of each edition can be modified by vendor without notice in advance A 7 System Installation Components in the package B 2 Program Installation B 3 eHardware Lock Troubleshooting B 13 System Management B 13 Suggested System Setup B 13 eNetwork Printing B 14 eServer Client Workflow in Network B 15 B 1 System Installation Components in the package TOPAZ RIP Installation CD 35 Autorun ico Autorun int EULA tet gt logo bmp S setup bmp iE Setup exe iy aspidil i Documents i LockDriver E cy Utility E o Ps Driver E jy Eng i Win2d0d i Windows i WinNT i WinXP E 9 Kor cy Win2O0d i Windows iy WinNT WinXP l PSMonitorPPo 4 ADOBE E eS Unidrv E iy Kor 9 Wings iy Win2D0d i WinXP TOPAZ RIP installation CD TOPAZ CMS Package CD profiles library User s Guide End user License USB Lock key dongle TOPAZ CMS Package CD G Design tet POOP G Designet 3000CP G Design let SANN GN ORBITER Ly Hii eT PO Pa E HI FI JET PRO FJ 800 5 Hi Fi JET FRO FJ 5 HIA JET PRO II FJ 40 5 HiH JET PRON RS fa G Hi Fi JET PRA I 53 540 5 HI Fi JET PRO I SJ 740 imaygePROGRAF Wado G imagePROGRAF Wasin g 2 180 G Novalct 700 O Nowa tet 150 i Novalet P
90. g of source image With this spot color replacement tool it is possible to tweak vector colors to fix errors in incoming files change colors to reflect new job requirements or direct output to special print heads Spot Color Replacement operates in conjunction with the Color Database Spot Color Replacement window shows values for original and replacement colors Choose RGB CMYK LAB or device colors to specify new colors The device colors let you send metallics varnishes or specially mixed corporate colors to individual print heads as well as colors of normal device ink sets You can replace colors of vector objects in your source image selectively as well as vector and image parts all together The colors to replace can be selected by definition of CMYK RGB or named spot If you d like to replace named spot of source file only your source image should have Spot Channel included In this case only named spot channel will be replaced even though there re images of the same color space in RGB or CMYK It is possible to ignore named spot color channel of source image also Please refer to Postscript Tab of job control See below picture to understand the workflow of Spot Color Replacement Source Image Spot Replacement Command Final Output RGB Image CMYK Image RGB Color A RGB Image CMYK Image C Color A C Color B gt Color A for Vector and image Color A C Color B RGB Color A RGB RGB CMYK gt Color A for Vecto
91. g printing time Passes With more passes you select printing quality will be better however more passes take more time and consume more ink However this can increase only vertical resolution not horizontal resolution That s why there re printing resolutions like 300X600 600X1200 or 360X720 DPI Dot Size You can see Dot Size menu when you re printing with printers supporting variable dot technology In general Variable Dot and Super Cell technology is from Epson head technology TOPAZ Rip perfectly support true 2 byte variable dots You can select your Dot Size you prefer TOPAZ Rip also supports Variable Dot technology to HP heads also with varying dot size by overprinting of dots at the same position Prink Mode Default Mode 360 DPT k Resolution Direction Bj vw Pass Overlap Off 2Pass Overlap Few Overlap 4Pass Overlap Default Printing mode Dot Size Normal Dot O variable Dot Small Dot Medium Dot is composite sets of Large Dot Resolution Direction Dot size and number of passes Default Overprint mode can be modified for your preference Advanced Setup F 13 Job Control Examples of different Printer modes for some printer models Park Made Chat al bijde Pichler Drei py w Pai Covelo Of 2Pacs Overlap C Few Overlap 9 C 4Pass Crerlap Cet Stee oral Dor Craib Camala iMai Da Cleg Da Gap i w 7 Mutoh Spitfire Prin
92. g with using 6 HiFi color model and variable Hexachrom ici i S CMYK LeLm dot mode together you must do accurate calibratior m A brs with spectrometer first Otherwise you need to find ae LeLMLK correctly matched linearization curves from other A CMYK bier sources File extation is TLC Direct Gonversiar Color Calibration with Light color and Hexachrom Calibration Screen Generate Linearan C Screen Correction HEXACHROM separation CMYK OrGr s EX LOGOsync algorithm Professional Profiler is required CMYK Orer like Profile maker or Monaco Light Color with Variable Dot Calibration CMYK LoLmLk CMYK LeLmLk eee Boa Calibration Screen Generate Variable Dot 4 Linearization Screen Correction Ink Limit control LeLmLE F 7 Job Control Default color mode of a specific printer can be selected from the list However TOPAZ Rip provides more flexibility in Customized Color Inkset option You can edit your own ink colors in CMYKSS CMYKLcLmSS CMYKSSS and CMYKSSSS modes for various purposes Mm eLELMLLRLA Photo ry w Color satu men gt a gt MTE Photo k Coke Medel CMY rims CMTE clin Plat KY If you selected customizable Color mode including S CM VRLcLmLLkLk Photo K Gray Matte K Cole Sch inne Ei CINE PA Color Setup button will be a aml by ee activated for your edition CHEL cl mad Phan Ki CMPELcL mSS
93. gamut colors Moreover unlike what happened in the saturation rendering intents with perceptual rendering intents all pixels are treated with respect for each other As a result out of gamut pixels may not be moved to the closest reproducible color For example pixel 4 is moved well past the nearest reproducible color at the edge of the CMYK color space to allow room for pixels 5 and 6 All of the colors have been adjusted proportionally even those that the destination device could accurately reproduce The chance that a viewer will notice that all of the colors have been modified is minimized This is the most common rendering intent that is used when converting from RGB to CMYK color space F 23 Job Control Calorimetric In the saturation rendering intent When using the colorimetric intent all of the Colorimetric colors that are in gamut 1 2 and 3 are not compressed but are simply adjusted ee for accuracy i Only the colors that are out of gamut are compressed and each color is modified individually without regard for any other colors much like the out of gamut colors were adjusted in saturation rendering intents Due to the fact that this disproportionate color adjustment can be noticeable especially in blends and gradients its use is normally limited to conversions between color spaces of similar sizes such as a CMYK to CMYK conversion If you use the colorimetric rendering intent when converting to a smaller color
94. gn DTP application on any Mac or IBM PC workstation the file will be transferred to Rip server and printed by specified printer in full automatic process Or simple file transfer from design workstation to defined hot folder in the network will bring the file to Rip server and print the file with the specified printer automatically TOPAZ Rip creates Virtual Printer when any input queue and hot folder is newly created Users can print by simply pressing print button from any application in any system on network directly to the Rip software Client Workstation RIP Server Printers E IBM PC i Application M ta Virtual Printer Driver Photoshop a O p Corel Draw n ae s i a DL ee ans i T io Hot Folder Pagemaker JIBM POL Be Express oe Fr AutoCAD Swe Mac 3 B 15 First Running Typical Procedure C 2 eMain Program Modules C 6 eFile Management Directories C 8 eHow to add and delete Printers C 9 eHow to Import files amp Print them C 10 eFile Load and Preview C 11 e ob Management C 12 Job Management in Input Queue Job Management in Print Queue Job Management in Finish Queue Context Menu for Job Management Error clear Method C 1 First Running Typical Procedure Original role of Rip software is just interpreting PostScript image and print the file as users request However the Rip software offers much wider and useful features to meet rapidly chang
95. h ek EWG he Heaght ii ma Ming AREN miT A J mi ERTELE fal am T ON F T a k CFt to Poga A leam Co ien eigi Fi Poata cher F pee Page Poole Left Top Hi aa ai Pm ia fat OOE mm Apply e Registration User can shift the position of printing along the media width or paper size There re 4 options available A e Margin User can edit the margin value in addition to the machine s inherit mechanical margin Additional shift of origin will be made by offset value mirroring option e Scaling and fit to page option F 5 e Paper size you can select your media size in the list or you can select Custom size and edit the width and Height Height 0 for roll type 17 inch Roll 17 inch Roll 16 5 inch Rall 16 inch Roll 14 inch Roll 13 inch Foll 12 inch Roll 10 inch Roll 150 44 210 297 mm JIS B3 364 x 515 mm 150 B3 353 x 500 mr JIS B4 257 x 364 mn 150 B4 250 x 353 mm USC 17 x 22 inch 16 x 20 inch 40 x 60 cm 30 x 40 cm LSB 11 17 inch 11 x 14 inch Letter 8 5 x 11 inch x 10 inch Custom Size Margin vs Offset Origin margin offset default hardware margin e Media type can be selected among allowed types for the selected printer Margir Rall Roll Mo Margin TH Sheet H Sheet No Margin Cittset Rotation and Job Control Job Print Options Bie ms P a K Click Job Print Options icon on the Job Con
96. h variable spot size spot type shape and Ipi number of lines per inch settings There are little technologies which allow to print large output with its original image s high resolution because of problems in printing speed and calculation capacity This TOPAZ RIP provides True Resolution Screen even when printing great size output by treating with enormous data all at once FM screen this screen has 4 type spot size you can change the screen spot size Halftone this screen provides many options like LPI and angle FX diffusion is good for photographic images but processing speed is relatively slow Other SX and SF screens are the best quality screen for photographs and rendered graphics See the next page to find characteristics of each screen Angle Setup Cyan i Magenta 7 canca Screen Yellow 0 Black 4f Screen Type Spot Type Round Line per Inch if Spot Size TOPAZ RIP supports dynamic variable dot imaging both of that from piezoelectric drop on demand technology and that from thermal drop duplication technology TOPAZ QUBIS Screen technology allows the finest micro dot supercell resolution for various screens and color separations Many of variable dot supporting rip softwares only print single size dots in reality especially when applying Lc Lm separation together TOPAZ RIP is different TOPAZ RIP perfectly controls both of HiFi separation technology and variabl
97. heleoradetieas dae High Quali Ai A LP rote ee H Sree LS Pig p aa oo 4 i Amdui Vis iem IEC Prati A SARS Pep Pholidae Tale iP oducton is EnA CCPrefile An E00 SWPP P holoaradenia i Tees reves odueion OS apa Pris AH e by CunthalePanareur I UIQ Seed WM teen CP rode ALIA SPL Pog Sanic apm umn Thigh aed V a cm Proview r 6000 SARA Pap Synthetig Sgh Sed A Profle AA AAF y he apir Eu e rodan aia lea DOPA HA Sree Pia Cunt ePaper I A Frpdiehon YS 1 ler CProd ke ATL SPL Pog Suntec Papot unm tae rnducton VOS eins D Prot ea BOG SOW FLISUNGL Par ek Papurlaiai aHa paad Wa waj em COP retile We HU SOW DP Cee Paper apie High Speed Y caper LLP rote StU Se Pe ynei F aparana Site H apang i W A CP role An SFL Pig Sync Paperlacan aA P duction Vi HOD Proie A 6000 SRS Pep Suntech aporlesan oe A duti Oe ei lol Prete ar Hn SRS Pah e apera a dutian Yia Ep r Sancoonasoney Back L E 22 JOB CONTROL TEn WG Mee veu ej ob Setup ejob General ejob Image Layout ejob Print Options Color Model and art setup Media Setup TM Print mode Screen Options Linearization e ob Color Profiles What is ICM Input ICC Profile Output ICC Profile Rendering Intent Preserve Pure Hue Spot Color Replacement ejob Color Adjustment Ink Level Control Total ink limit Curve Tweaking Brightness and Contrast Black Enhancement ejob Postscript
98. i Moe Default Mode Remin a ik Da Renkin i Carection py w Sead 100 mel Me Paw 4 z C4 Oe Dot Sie Dhoma Get Varisble De C Sna De O Medium Cink Lange Dot Cetus i Mision weie C IIPASS Cet Se i NM Cvit Dot Yai Dott Aabvarced Seige Epson 4800 F 14 Paks i Printer Coke Siri Oii si HP 9000S Pin Made Pass Dat Overlay 2 0FF Cien Save Rod Pager ON Canon W8400 Prt Mode Del auk Pioda i 6 0 Oz Cte Cet Site C Mormaeth CNormaett Vaiba E VarisbbeDotz EE n Ea Mimaki JV3 Job Control Screen Options In Screen option section various settings can be adjusted Screen Quality Screen Type Spot Type Screen Size LPI and Angle Screen is printed figure of ink dot controlled by printer head Sometimes screen is called as dithering patterns TOPAZ RIP provides its proprietary robust QUBis Screen Technology which enables the smoothest gradation and the finest dithering patterns Automatic gradation level correction for postscripts vector objects presents more than 256 level of gradation in single color and any mixed colors TOPAZ Rip is based on true 16 bit rendering for creation of screen and rasterizing those patterns inside of engine which gives much smoother presentation of gradation and colors The Rip includes FM screen SF screen SX diffusion Halftone screen Stochastic screen Clustered screen FX diffusion and etc wit
99. ighlight the cropped tile and edit Y size value Press ENTER Printing the Cropped Area Highlight the cropped tile and press Direct Send To Print Job button on the tool bar for immediate printing of cropped area only G 9 Layout Management Selectable Printing of Cropped Tiles lf you re printing tiles of very large image or if youd like to print just a cropped part of the original image TOPAZ Rip provides very useful rules of job management for tiling and cropping When printing of a normal job the input job will be moved to Print Queue However when printing of a tiled or cropped job the original input job will remain and a copy will be moved to Print Queue You can select a tile or multiple tiles in the thumbnail preview in different way and print them repeatedly with using original input job Ae T ry E r lt 7 ee cron mea rd ESRB Lamm Foca Se as Job liformation Printer Fils Name Page Staius FileSize np eee a ce ae F Source Fila E ATI i id A TEKI att DAB OriginalPregramswTOPA wand horoa S Pe eS ops I Ready B o Ueorri G Sire Grand Shama ARS ipg Heady 1LOWKE Urati Inpa i 425 B30 6839 mm Grand Shona S POSTS CMVE SSD I Heady 42K Uearhile Output 425 O08 We 693 mim P Grand Shona 5 POST CM YES Ready 42208 Upi a E Printer Grand Sherpa 0 140806 p3 Hendy IKE Hofeider kini E p ta Sa Printer Grand Sherpa 50 Bi Grand Shoma S Hest d eps l Ready
100. ill be generated automatically and you can adjust the size of selected file like Ex 3 G 7 Layout Management Tile Selection fm Click Select icon on the tool bar and click or drag on tiles in the preview image Select tiles made from Crop tool or tiling tool Selected tiles will be highlighted and only selected tiles will be printed when the job is sent to the Print Queue If you d like to undo your selection click the selected tile with pressing Ctrl key Repeated clicking with Ctrl key will select and unselect the file repeatedly You can also selecting multiple tiles by mouse dragging or clicking with Ctrl key on different tiles Total selection Diagonal selection with Ctrlt Mouseclick g Dipun 277 See 106 6154 mm py When printing tiles there s a rule of numbering en i for determining printing sequence of each tile oP ML TINS ML h g Printing order starts from the origin point guay emane S Ss moving horizontally and then vertically Fesoliton 300 dal _ TOPAZ Rip provides very useful and practical tile selection features Even when you go back to Job Management Mode you can select tiles Ei on the thumb nail preview image without accessing Layout Management She Mode again Users can define and change the tiles to print immediately when they print multiple jobs on the Job Management Mode LEN Overlap vs Tile Size When overlap value is more than zero it effects on the printed ti
101. ill include 36 balance gray scales totally 72 gray scales You need to select only one among these 72 gray scales In ideal case you can find a gray scale which is the most similar to pure black scale However the mixture of CMY seldom makes similar color to pure K You can select the gray scale which is close to neutral black Select size of chart Rotate Mirror image and print it 2 Fgloct Puleh Chat Tyee A Typa s indon AD we A Tipi At A amona AT te FE mom Chart A Vou cen geleci the mosi sikuler psich te ar Chani B wih raqurdieg He aa torcend guy relgeance 3 Generate Lineak sion Cure Ge If it is very hard to choose one because you cannot find any neutral gray in the charts please measure your linearization chart again For the last option given to you is that you need to select one where the most saturated gray black looks as similar to pure black as possible It is easier to edit middle tones of gray than to edit dark tones later in Color Correction tools Press Generation button and you ll see a window for linearization file saving Linearization file will be saved as tlc format with the default location and naming rule Press Next button after saving of linearization curve E 16 Color Management Easy Profiler Level 1 Slapo 2 Protiling Levelli Profile Generation with Standard Reference Ink Profile Only Level 1 profiling Easy Profiling is allowed dur
102. ing printing environment People can simply open the file and print it but more and more people prefer job management for reuse in the future and automatic process through remote access Getting Started without CMS Run Product Manager to install a specific printer driver and required standard CMS package te Product Manage Frees a oe Run TOPAZ Rip main program and open an image p Ss j e CURSE off ThE PAL i ee aE Install CMS packages for ibe addod printers ama H al a k E Ten a ee m f MS package includes dita related wih color matching m reem Tem ra ama a Pee ike linearization curves ICC profiles or color conection data thay wa PETAR haai ai o ee ii D e T Epa PUR ee i Gia UER T iaa Upgrade fret or charged upgrade of your pr gram Mariage your prognaen to be the lalesi werdenn Upgrade your lock key for new divers of new ciio You can edit your image layout with various tools like resizing rotation mirroring tiling cropping positioning copy amp repeat and etc Printer Grand Sherpa 50 Company Printer Printer Setup Grand Sharpa Shipa Modi Job Propesiien i 7 Source File ie Dewi Origine roars A TOPAZ NEW AGL GATE ps El Size G Input 5 Te Ge mim Guilpul 425 Hee Se GAS me Gi Printar Printer i Grand Sherpa Sh Dri i Grad Shona So TE Press Job Settings icon to check the current overall Pom LPT TNS LPT C tasou izet lg me mi
103. ing this Quick Profiling Profle Name SherpaSl_Pig eLeLm_PLAIN_720 High Quality 4 Variable Dot TIL4A00 process Standard Reference Ink Profile Epson Piatt Glossy Photo GERIU w TOPAZ RIP provides very special tool Epson Padt Glossy Pioio GURTU iT i 33 npu ps ori aay meeer called Easy Profiler ICC Profiling Eason Ripi ges pret es ie rolde Generation takes relatively long time 1 3 hours i P yebe G and efforts even if expensive 3 party profiler is in you hand now This Easy Profiler gives you an pr e a a oe ia be immediate creation of ICC profile spectrometer and 3rd party profilin s rd without using professional 3 party oi Dan aratan ol pels korr profiling software nor expensive Finally yau can a whole cmm semg mmes spectrometers the semtings by pressi ng Save button of CMS item in the Print Check the name ol TEM tile belore ake It is possible because we have media j For your reterence itis possible ta manage whole printing parametere seting inlormaon file format You can save the setings inci aA pall properties by measuring ink color limits bases cee ra Gene and total ink limit We also have tuned color noise by gray balancing process already The remaining information we need to match color is mixing rules of Levell Profile Generation with Standard Reference Ink Profile in k its elf Profile Name SherpaS0_PigfcLeLm_PLAIN 720 High Quality_4_Variable Dot
104. input queue automatically Job Control But frequently users need to change settings color settings curve tweaking pass numbers layout settings scales and etc of each job instantly where the parameter change will not be used again Users can change existing job and color settings with immediate cross check from Preflight Simulator The Rip provides robust structure of job management hierarchy Users need not to be confused with complicated multiple job treatment The Rip s highly structured information hierarchy keeps your job settings consistently maintained Global settings Global Control for automatic workflow is not affected by temporary trials Job Control of each color and layout change for a specific printing work Fully automated printing workflow is very useful But it is also true that we need to modify settings manually for each job very often It is very important to protect rigid settings for automation with allowing flexible change of current job settings separately Global Control cons Job Control Icons Ae View Getting Too Help CU Rov VR Se Peau ue L Mark setup Change options crop mark sewing mark duality setup CMS Color Management interpolation ripping quality with linearization and profiling Full Wizard base module Color Adjustment Brightness curve tweaking Input queue setup softproof simulation gray balance adding modifting and deleting _ input queue Print Option setup oats
105. k Woe CMYK Or Gr plane s level control editor r inpul value click Enler key to apply it Preview of LEVEL Control curve for each colon 100 Use more ink with darker output 50 Use less ink with brighter output O Ink Guts in Color Profile Color Correction Max Ink Cut Calor Level control in Color Adjustment process is additional operation on the base of those in ICC profiles Actual printed output will be under the effect of combined control from both processes Max Ink Cut Max ink Cut Max Ink Cut In ICC profile In Color Adjustment In actual printing Ex B0 Cyan Ex 80 Cyan Ex 64 Cyan 80 100 X 80 100 X 100 Total Ink Limit Total Ink Limit Total Ink Limit in ICC profile in Color Adjustmer in actual printing Ex 320 Ex 200 Ex 400 F 29 Job Control Total Ink Limit The total ink limit is very important If total ink limit of a certain media is very low then the color gamut should be is very narrow Gamut Is expression of color area for a certain color device Total Ink Limit means maximum value of ink injection until there s no wet amp no burned color of shadows area The best criteria to determine Total Ink Limit for digital printing with ink and media would be No wet No burn Large enough to print visual colors in maximum gamut There can be special media ex rough clothes printed with solvent ink or oil ink which cannot be measured with calorimeter o
106. kage J of the Printing which is inatalind i st Bie hada fies of Lin arisaatiogn Cisne BOC Profiles Colar Adjueionent etc i relates eth Cobor Matching hassishs a roe or the chase upgrade bor the eteciuncy Improverma nt of ihe product To maintain the product automatically to Inspect a tree on fhe charged upgrade possibilty in condinon of bet When you delete and add printers you can do it in TOPAZ Rip program Right click on any active printers in active printers list window You can delete the selected printer and add new printer Here you can manage TPS TOPAZ PRINT SETUP files for a specific active printer by selection of Printer Setup menu in context menu E Ci Job Info TIFF Job Information Separation Source File a Di6 Origina Size co Input 215 91 hp eel ch Output 215 Printer p g gt Printer TIFF d gt Driver TIFF DesignJet g Port TIFF1 aids Printer Setup Printer Setup g gt Quality Enhe Printer Setup Add Printer Delete Printer Del C 9 First Running How to Import files and Print them It looks very simple to open images and print them for general software applications However sometimes the importing and printing process is more complicated than expected In the current printing field more processes are shared by multiple users and various devices and workstations are connected on the network So the Rip software is required to meet demands of f
107. king curves Cc TO Folders named for Device Name Including TCM TMI TLC ICC amp spot_APl G Job TCM CMSset file Preview TMI Media control set TLC Linearisan set file El G2 PS Driver ICG Color matching profile c Spot_APl Color set for Photoshop compatible Ripsw a JOB file archiving folder J Fonts Preview file archiving folder Lib l 4 Font setting folder CJ Psfonts CO Resource cD Setup E Image Detault Printer Image Backup folder Q Media Default Media Data base Backup folder H Print Default Printer Setup file TPS Backup folder G Queue eo Queue Manager folder J Spool Temporary spooled files folder O Temp CO Utility C 8 First Running How to add and delete Printers When you start the program after installation you ll see Product Manager is running first Product Manager program is separate program from TOPAZ rip program You can add your printers as active printers up to the allowed numbers For business version 4 active printers are allowed to add You can delete any of active printers and add new printers within the allowed amount of active printers But you need to be cautious because there s a limitation times to delete existing printers and add new printers B Product Monager k will executes Add Printer Wizard Ww add the Printer Add the printer which Atill usa in printer i instali CMS Pac
108. l increase and vise versa You can adjust values in generally by typing or moving slide bar Feed rate is related with output size also So it is desired to adjust feed rate first and calibrate output size later Paper Feed Adjustment Offset Value Feed Adjustment 97 00 103 00 0 01 Unit J o 01 C Head speed Scan speed Feed speed and Scan interval adjustment Head speed Scan speed is speed of head movement in horizontal direction in each pass The value is different for each resolution and it depends on drying time of media property Feed speed is speed of pinch roller to feed the media per each pass It is also related with drying time of media Scan interval is delay time of print head in ends of each pass It is also related with drying time of media Interval time between Passes sec of O S sec interval of Scanning sec 0 0 10 0 Unit 0 1 sec Feeding Speed f5 50 4 D Paper thickness Vacuum Head height adjustment Pebetween Pages 10 mm 0200 mm Unit 10 mm Paper thickness 100 gt micron 0 100 mm vacuum Paper thickness is another important parameter to adjust for ee better quality because it is strongly related with head height Hee PECA Also vacuum strength is related with paper thickness E Temperature adjustment Heater Temperature Degree Celsius Pipe fo Temperature is very critical parameter in solvent 15 55 degree printing jobs It is strongly related with drying ti
109. l tool set bar You ll see General tab of Job Detail Setup window In this tab you can check detailed setting parameters in the selected TPS file in overview window You can only setup some special ports like FAST LTP port or FILE port Job Detail setup General imane Layout Print Options Color Adiustment Quality Source Image Printer Grand Sherpa 50 Ea LPT Mode Port LPT Pont Setup ECP EPP H corpa wah Fast Comino Printer Setup Olie DMA ok Cancel 2 Layout amp Paper siza i le a 00000 000 mim Paper Margen beS 000 725 000 AlaS 000 Ge 20 nn h Scale Hore 100 0000 Vori 100 O00 Flt in Modia OFF S Rotate Alate U degree ow Miror OF b Image Position Leti Top b Image Offset Horz f 0000 mm Yert f 0000 mm E Printer Setup m Chualike Enhances amp Mode 720 High Quality S Resolution tadik Tai w Passi d w Screen Stochastic Color Model PIG CHYELeLm G CMS Setup p Chis Setup File shemaSl_PigetlelLm_PLAln_ Al High Quality d_Variabl h Use ICM ON Use default settings For fast LPT port File Port Sip Pori Mame FILE El Prompt foe file path for each file Datault locatiu OF i Camel i ka 7 5 i E If you check the option box output file name will be automatically determined by the software without asking Various ports e LPT and FASF FTP Generally used po
110. lack enhancement Input queue settings Color Management Color Correction Automatic printing Printing Settings Scaling Positioning Layout Management Rotation Mirroring C 5 First Running Main Program Modules TOPAZ Rip program contains 4 main different modules Main GUI Product Manager Color Environment Manager and Sherry Nesting program Main GUI TOPAZ Rip program s main GUI is providing Dual Mode Interface Job management mode and layout management mode where users can shuttle on from the other easily Job Management Mode Global control icon nll osem Tes Fosse E Job control icon applied to queue ee E omen SMe te l E R applied to job Open images jobs Sin eo Sa eae e Job setup eSave Job package n e Job General ePrinter Setup ar leiloa e Job Image Layout a Pee eg i i PY ee ee a hosts He eInput Queue Setup Color Environment Manager Change options e Job Print Options e Job Color Adjustment e Job Quality Control e Job Mark setup e About Information Ph aa ae i Active Printers list window Current job setting information Thumb nail 5 gt e Scale amp Size N p E P ki hrap Lapel irag F preview image ee oo Wid hea es e Proportion change espace o TO A T j Jes e Origin and positioning e Mirroring and Rotating e Tiling Gmi LE ps MEEN E By Size aos ia By Grid E Ho jee yh a A Tile size adjustment a asna Cropping tee
111. ld TOPAZ Rip was designed to help users to resolve this problem to get the best result even when they have only 100 120 of total ink limit TOPAZ Rip has 256X256 level of gradation and sophisticated screen technology to resolve poor quality problem in white point A 4 Overview The most remarkable 14 differences in TOPAZ Rip 5 N Intuitive and Simple to learn TOPAZ Rip is designed to meet practical demand of people who is not very professional but requires the most successful output easily Users can shuttle between job management and layout management by one click in the same Dual mode window and all property controls can be accessed in a flash You ll find how easy and streamlined the GUI and the structure of TOPAZ are Speedy and Swift process In general some rips are a little heavy and slow to handle for most of users who want fast and prompt actions in signage works With TOPAZ Rip You ll find the best performance during the printing speed during simultaneous ripping printing Also you ll never be bothered by the time lag during the operation in tiling re scaling nesting and etc Our unique data processing algorithm allows minimal requirements of CPU memory and free hard disk even during nesting of GB size jobs True Ripping and printing on the fly due to unique engine structure TOPAZ provides amazing printing speed Ripprint rip amp print on the fly Topaz Rip enables real Rip amp Print on the fly Some rips arg
112. le size which is different from tiled preview image Printed tile size will be larger than original tile size because the printed tile includes narrow duplicated area of tiles in contact which is defined by overlap value G 8 Layout Management Cropping div gt Conceptually Cropping is the same with partly selection of tiles in Tiling Users can print single or multiple tiles only highlighted Generally Cropping means select single tile to print part of image only which users want to print In this case Quick Cropping and Tile Size Adjustment helps precise selection of cropped area Precise Control of Cropped Area Draft Croppin First of all click Quick Crop icon on the tool bar and create highlighted copped area by mouse dragging roughly at position of you prefer Precise Positionina of Left Top Corner of the Cropped Area You can adjust the position of left top corner of the cropped area by adjusting size of another tile in contact at that corner The X Y size adjustment of the corner contacted tile will adjust the position of cropped area automatically Highlight the corner contacted tile and edit X size value Press ENTER Highlight the corner contacted tile and edit Y size value Press ENTER Precise Sizing of the Cropped Area You can adjust the size the cropped area precisely by manual editing Highlight the cropped tile and edit X size value Press ENTER H
113. les from the network PC easily Users can simply open a certain file from network hard disk which is shared Or users can just drag the file from any location of shared network and drop it on the window of the Rip software for file loading Network PC users can utilize hot folders for printing without accessing to the Rip server They can just drag and drop copy or move a certain file to the defined hot folder on the network The Rip server will monitor the folder to print files in it with defined settings For more convenient way network PC users also can utilize Virtual Printer driver which can be shared on network In this case simple clicking of Print button on any windows application from any location on the network will drive the Rip to print what is exactly required When the network PC is Macintosh you need to use Mac IBM compatibility devices or utilities TOPAZ Rip provides TOPAZ MacLink program for AppleTalk communication in option If you can access to the Rip server you can use various methods as above including virtual printer C 10 First Running File Load and Preview When you want to open any file click file menu s file open command or file open icon After that you ll see file selection navigation dialog window If you select a specific file and press OK button or just double click the file the file will be loaded and appear in Input Queue section Rip will display preview
114. lexible and consistent connecting methods between workstations servers and printers for every different workflow Connecting printer and Rip server Rip installed PC How to connect PC with Printer is regarded as port setup PC and Printer are communicating through mutually confirmed port When installing the Rip software it contains printer driver s requested by user If the printer supports various ports like LPT USB SCSI IEEE1394 Firewire TCP IP and etc you need to select what you prefer For direct TCP IP networking with your printer you need to discuss with Printer dealer because data transfer speed is limited Importing Files from local PC There are various ways of importing files from the local PC Users can simply open a certain file from local hard disk Or users can just drag the file from any location of PC and drop it on the window of the Rip software for file loading Users also can setup hot folders where printing options are already defined The Rip software will monitor hot folders and print the files in the folder with defined settings Just copy or move a file into the specific folder is all for printing work For more convenient way users can send a specific job to the Rip software through Virtual Printer driver which is generated automatically in creation of hot folder by just clicking of Print button on any windows application Importing Files from network PC The Rip server can import fi
115. licate feeling of the black output like cool black or warm black you need to add each color with different level There s Convert CMY to K option and this works for saving CMY inks by using pure black ink lt is useful for presentation graphics but not recommended for photographs or artworks Case Study Addining 50 same level of CMY to K Black 100 CMY 50 aa Black 50 Black input to CMY a died a Result A K100 C50 M50 Y50 Total 250 0 Result B K50 C25 M25 Y25 Total 125 F 34 Job Control Job PostScript a Le 6 e OHRA m T Click Job Postscript icon on the Job Control tool set bar You ll see Postscript tab of Job Detail Setup window In this tab you can access to Quality Control settings like ripping resolution anti aliasing interpolation and etc and Ignore Spot Color Object option here Quality options Resolution Ripping Resolution Best Ripping with the same DPI resolution with original high quality and Low speed In this case Rip not use resample s Bicubic interpolation even if you check it Enhance Ripping with 1 2 resolution of original Normal speed Express Ripping with 1 4 resolution of original large format size High speed Option Text Anti aliasing Anti aliasing effect on Postscripts text Graphic Anti aliasing Anti aliasing effect on vector graphic data Image Interpolation Interpolation effect on all imag
116. lor in the list you can define your own color name and preview color like the left picture Any kind of color can be defined here Job Control ie a After addition of Spot colors for your own ink you ll be able to see them in the list You can delete or edit Spot color ink mtoe iasi tairorbted You can modify order of ink arrangement in the right Gl r C hafeiga r i ee i i e section of the window e g Green ink can be in light black whs cartridge or light gray cartridge selectively in Epson4800 idi amea ca Horie Pires Damen e a as Spot procesna Spot Channel White v GHEEN Mipan Fi mage anna we Mouse and Arne ley Lin Down Left Might h used ba edie each pairt Sider Conbrol is used tn erdik srath Normally Spot ink can be used when there re spot channels in source image or n color profiling is required However the program supports White spot channel creation option image area non image area or page area for white ink printing Lit L it t000 This option can be used for another color too is acini coal er Replaces Coke Curve 7 F 2 i Z DobGainap the E ic i0 Click OK to complete color Wi copii W Orona 1 setup You ll see A Seana ik A i a iD Wp He E Ovetow o Customized color model in aaa o io the list You can control O ucyen w linear curve or level of your iiMs ma aw own colors now and you m chat can use those colors in n
117. lt printer or not Customized pricier naming Printer name paruni Spi S Do you want to use thit printer as a default i Yeu No Add Printers Wired S Completion of ADD PRINTERS Wizard settings ADO PRINTER setting competed The setting information it ag below Pintername Grand Shema 5 Post i LETI TNS LPT Cewername Grand Shana 50 Detaull prnje Yeg Prii Finish button to finish ADD PRINTERS Waizand Completion of ADD PRINTERS m eerie igege Wizard If you d like to install CMS by accessing Io ICMS Package instalation button packages for the added printer EEEn PN check CMS Package Installation Back canca and press FINISH button B 10 System Installation If you checked at the final step of ADD PRINTER Wizard or when you press Install CMS Package button of the Product Manager program window you can install provided standard CMS packages in the TOPAZ CMS Package CD Insert the CD first CMS Package also can be created and distributed by any users of TOPAZ Rip TOPAZ Rip program provides tools to create and distribute CMS packages of your own This process can install the private CMS package too T3 Froduct Manager Add printers fo use in the Fip software MEHR EHeEeReeeeee g E gingtall CMS packages for the adiad printers a m CMS package includes data related wah color matching mlika lmearization cures PCC profiles or color comection data al
118. lta E for the match proof process This is recommended whenever ICC data is imported for proofing with input output ICC profile pairs Saturation This preserves the saturation or brightness of colors when transforming them for output It maps fully saturated source colors to fully saturated target colors This rendering intent is used where color matching and exact relationships between colors is less important than bright colors This is a pretty picture intent that will produce brilliant spot colors F 21 Job Control Input ICC Profile As the picture below you can select different Input ICC profiles separately for types of source image or even parts of a single source image RGB image RGB vector CMYK image and CMYK vector parts or images can have independent Input ICC profiles It is useful to preserve target color of source image with there re Logo vector objects and photo images together User can select standard input ICC profiles from the list or open any ICC profiles available Input ICC Profile RGB Image RGB Vector CMYK Image CMYK Vector Location G CMYK OF Eg AJ 1000 F D Mane 1409 Pig lec W High end Swop icm Use embedded input ICC profiles A DatCMY K ice a JapanStandard iee TOPAZ Rip has the ability to recognize an ICC profile AJ DaRCMYK jee WA Mimaki Eco Solvent ier that is embedded in a source image If there re multiple f DettEXice AJ NJIO00 GiM Hapsung Lye embedd
119. ly has dulled down the output color In this case there should be additional process to get more vivid or fresh color or more soft or smooth color due to different unexpected results If you want enhanced color the Rip provides Curve Tweaking tool and it is very important and useful This tool s control method is similar to Adobe Photoshop curve tools in CMYK mode If you want delicate control of tweak curve then you can edit the curve using the tweak curve editor or create your own curves lial ume Cdit E ha Franti ti ine tual E3 pibau Node information F 1a ppn ian be ee a irene Initialize the curves Pil a j Pi Fi i elect a color plane elect any reference curve and apply it Coder Curvo Vell Emain fier Blah ha to the color plane Dert ain fh PaNani bpi pecan M Pahl Import new curve f f 7 1 ane a E B z i o OO A I RONAN OIG aon E epee Let Suter Nord Reg edd Hah Bares Hees ave the customized ee curves together Tweak Curve Cime give Fine lut Select a Color Plane DotGainzSp lut DotGain3op lut and apply any reference curve DotGain5p lut provided in the curve list b Typ Example VolurnnM Shadow zone gt darker output Highlight zone gt brighter output F 31 Job Control urve Edil COW TNSAipWICCProfilewWAne ut Color Modal gt 1g InpukADiyipul inp 3 7S Ouipul 39 3 imaia E Color Cume Yeis F Sample Cu
120. m or Lavoul ui Reialution aa step Select Asocion eae ee Wiii i 1280 0000 Hioekgha a 1 0000 Parise AG Drie Page Aces ae phi elie R Flavius 0 chaegrine F Liimi ET Ed b Lem Top FO aaa iMedia Up tear i I0 _ Cancel 2 450 or E Acceleration 5 o 30 If you click Device Options button you can SER adjust device specific parameters like speed a Baam force acceleration pounce and etc C Pounce S F 37 Job Control Running Cut server program When you print your job including cutting data with correct device setting and connection in Cutting Option tab of Job Detail Setup dialog window Cut Server program will run automatically to transfer the cutting data to cutting plotter But if you re using Hybrid device which prints and cuts together like Roland Versacamm or Graphtec Signjet Pro the cutting data will be transferred to the same machine automatically after printing work and Cut server program is not required to be executed When Cut server program is running anita lini you can see Cut server program icon in Job Tray icon list Exit Cutserver When you double click the icon you can activate Cut Server program as below You can add new cutting plotter and setup parameters required here Lil Server A P Pe mii l 2 Cut Server Fle yew Bettngs Help MERA EET A Hle View Settings Help impui Joba i Ad
121. m sEm pH e ST iar i Cobar Cupra Faa Cyan ia a Click a point and change data ues ees 8 8 Caution W Editing of Spread Sheet will change Curves but editing of curves will not give any change on Spread Sheet TOPAZ Rip will use curve data not spread sheet data to create final linearization curve TLC file 60 1 795 1 295 61 940 55 1 721 1 266 1 690 50 1595 1 240 1 806 45 1 493 1 215 1 743 40 Lave 1182 1 687 35 1 215 1 iz 4 1 556 a0 1036 1 052 1 467 an 0 066 0 969 134z 20 0720 0650 1 135 w FE Initial Spread Sheet Data and modification gt Curve data modification gt Apply Gray Balance information gt Final curve E 8 Color Management Gray Balance Chart Size This step is Gray Balance process Gray balance agreement occurs when the 2434219 5Smn amp Late Wem proper proportions of yellow magenta and cyan that were blended together and Ra ANSE reproduced on the print out Gray balance is Prin a significant factor in determining what the overall color gamut will be We need to measure for gray balance because each person s color perception is different Socio The human eye can detect any shift in a neutrality when neutral areas are compared ow ga select the mest gla patch w Aa smong Ato FE fom C side by side is TOPAZ Rip will print 2 charts of Gray Balance el A chart and B chart will include 36 balance Ganorate Uneuteaton Cure EON
122. mage Perceptual wt Check All Check None Perceptual Relative Colorimetric _ Magenta _ Yellow Black Saturation Green Blue Absolute Colorimetric Vector Perceptual be Check All Check None i ae a cyan C Magenta Yellow Black Red Green Blue Preserve Pure Hue Colors Rendering intent means mapping algorithm to convert out of gamut points into the gamut of selected ICC profile Saturation In the saturation rendering intent because each out of gamut pixel is treated individually without regard to any surrounding pixel the closest color to each of these three pixels that are out of gamut happens to be the same color Notice also that the three pixels that are in gamut are also changed These pixels are remapped toward the outside edges of the CMYK color space effectively increasing the saturation of the image Using the saturation rendering intent will bring all of the colors into gamut but will increase the saturation of all in gamut colors during the conversion Although this is useful when working with cartoons comics business graphics or when trying to improve a weak image it will seldom be used in your day to day workflow Perceptual When using this intent the entire gamut of the image is compressed to fit within the gamut of the destination device This means that all of the colors that were actually in gamut will need to be adjusted to in effect make room for the out of
123. mall jobs 14 Virtual printer setup and queue management In automatic workflow process server option of TOPAZ is very useful Input queue is connected with Hot folders to monitor any new input jobs in real time TOPAZ Rip automatically create Virtual Printer by using postscript printer driver and TNS virtual port in background The Virtual Printer can be accessed from any applications in the network A 6 Overview Different Versions and Specification TOPAZ RIP is divided into different editions to meet the variety of market demand from ver 9 0 Prices will be differently determined for each edition Please ask details to your dealers TOPAZ RIP Business version 9 0 Full Job management and server features Full Color management tools and features Full Layout management tools and features Tiling Nesting and Contour cutting no limitation in printing size Full support of file formats to import 4 active printers 1 rip engine TOPAZ RIP Design version 9 0 Full Job management and server features Full Color management tools and features Full Layout management tools and features Tiling and Nesting Limitation in printing size equal to or lower than 24 Full support of file formats to import 2 active printers 1 rip engine TOPAZ RIP Pro Server version 9 0 Full Job management and server features Full Color management tools and features Full Layout management tools and features Tiling and Nestin
124. me _ Print Heater Ee from media property and ink property Color banding problem need to be resolved b Front Heater E g P y adjusting temperature profile through each position of the media F 12 Job Control Print mode In print mode section you can setup your Printing Resolution Direction Passes Autocut Drying time Dot size and etc In general most of printers are supporting control of resolution direction passes and dot size You re recommended to refer to manual book of your own printer for details Resolution Each of different printers has its own printing resolutions It is important to select the right one for your purpose There could be several or more resolutions selectable but generally we can say about 3 types of printing mode Draft mode Use for testing or tentative purpose Suitable for long distance of viewpoint and consumes relatively less ink Normal mode Use for economic products Suitable for middle distance of viewpoint and consumes normal amount of ink High quality mode Use for photographic job Suitable for short distance of viewpoint and consumes relatively more ink and high quality media Direction Uni direction Printer heads are printing in uni direction Taking relatively more time but printing result is a little better than bi direction printing Bi direction Printer heads are printing in bi direction printing during both of moving forward and backward Savin
125. me Page Status File Size Input 1 Shuttle into Layout Management Mode User can shuttle between Job Management Mode and Layout Management Mode in a flash within the same window 2 Preview Generation pre ripping error checking and preview making 3 Send to Print job only transfer the selected job into Print queue 4 Delete Delete the job from input queue 5 Run Sherry Nesting program Nesting to merge current jobs in preview window to save media 6 Auto Preview on off If it is on as default preview image will be generated for all the loaded jobs in input queue automatically It ll take some time until being ready 7 Auto Send to print on off If on all the pre ripped job in input queue will be automatically transferred to Print queue 8 Expand Input Queue Window Expand the input queue window in case of so many input jobs C 12 First Running Job Management in Print Queue 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 x S CO Auto Print Print Jobs Printer File Mame Page Progress start Time Elapsed Time 1 Print Rip and print the selected job on the fly 2 Pause Pause the selected job under Riprint Ripping and Printing on the fly process 3 Cancel Cancel the printing command of the selected job The job will be transferred to Finish queue 4 Lock Stop the printing process when the locked job is reached during sequential printing process 5 Delete Delete the selected job The job will disappear from all the queue sections
126. media print mode screen ICC Setup global settings for a Image Layout setup specific input queue TPS setting media size location scale rotate mittor Save job package which stores Print setup General all information for the specific job Modify the selection of printer and port Open image files or job package Printer setup Monitor current settings D 2 Global Control Management of Settings It is very important to understand the concept of setting file management in TOPAZ Rip The creative concept of setting files will give you the best flexibility for your practical use However you need to create save modify use and manage those files in correct way There are TPS TOPAZ PRINT SETUP file TCM TOPAZ COLOR MANAGEMENT file and JPK JOB PACKAGE file you need to manage setting parameters in TOPAZ Rip It is not required to manage setting files in Job Control mode because you just need to modify existing TPS file for each job and print it You cannot save modified information as TPS file or TCM file But you can save JPK file for a specific job when you need to save image and settings together for repeated printing in the future TPS file is the basic setting file you need to use for job management TCM file contains color related information only and it can be created by CMS manager in TOPAZ Rip TPS file can be created and modified with referring to prepared TCM files from color management
127. n direction passes and dot size inc variable dot e Advanced Setup Other settings like Autocut option or drying time option e Linear curve Linear curve is saved as TLC file and prepared curves can be selected in the list The curve can be modified by pressing Modify button to adjust levels mid tone colors and etc F 6 Job Control Color Model and Color setup If your output device supports multiple color models then you can select one of the supported color modes here like 4 color 6 color 7 color 8 color and etc You need to select the ink type like pigment dye solvent UV and etc here Color Adjustment PostScript General Image Layout Print Options Cutting Option Color Profiles Color Model CMYKLcLen Photo K Color Setup Grav Photo K CMYK Phoko E CMY ELcLm Photo K CMYKLeLmsstPhato K CMYKLcLmsstMatte Ki CMYKS555 Photo K Light color separation and Variable dot control are CMYK vary complex algorithms in screen technology Hexachrom jorge ss CMYK LeLm sometimes two different technologies conflicts with amp CMYK LeLmLk each other to cause unexpected output quality os 4 Gray Bul if you can do accurale calibration with STOR Ones CMYK OrGr spectrometer then the Rip s library can correct the problem inlinearization by quick screen table generation Therefore if you want the best quality CMYK _ CMYK icc CMYK printin
128. nd File amp Image processing during the work should be treated promptly for soeedy printing The Rip provides real freedom of WYSWYG operation which completes your printing work in a flash The Rip does not allow any delay time during any process of your operation This remarkable intuitive interface and consistent workflow will save your valuable time and human resources The Rip s All in One Wizard helps your calibration profile creation and job settings in a single stream The Rip enables Real Rip amp Print on the fly called RIPRINT by its unique slice buffering technology file treatment algorithm anti banding algorithm and distributed processing The Rip separated Raster Image Processing engine and Color control and quality enhancement modules Most of case Rip engine suffers huge load in processing archiving coloring screening and interpolating The Rip engine only does processing and others are treated during printing by another separate modules which maximize the printing speed Super scale Print 100m long print output with maintaining speed and quality The Rip s unique real time Rip amp Print technology enables Super scale printing without any loss of printing speed nor output screen quality TOPAZ RIP can treat with big printing however big it is even it is 100m long MIMO Server You need just 1 rip for all of your desktops and printers You can make your printing office 24hours ru
129. ne Zooming ae jm he Panning Bo mE Tile selection e Copying Column and Margin TE Row and Margin Faai Layout Management Mode C 6 First Running Product Manager Run Product Manager to install a specific printer driver and required standard CMS package B Product Manager amp You can update your lock key here kwil executes Add Printer Wizard to add the Prinar Add the printer which i will use in printer it instali CMS Package of the Printing which is inatalled Install thie data files of Lineadisation Ciawi IEC Protihes Color Adjustrient etc il relates wath Color Matching Kaggichs a roe or the chage upgrade for the efcigncy Improvement of ihe product ha To maintaln the product automatically to inspect a tee de the charged upgrade possibility in condition of basi Color Environment Manager Press Color Environment Manager button in the main GUI to run TOPAZ Color Environment Manager program Calor Enviranment Manager Professional Profiling Professional Profiling Color ink level and Total ink limit e Te A DE Linearization with Spectrometer Level 2 Profle generate with other professional Protler Adjust linear curve with Gray Balancing ICC profiling with std reference ink profile SUPRENIRO ICC profiling with Spectrometer amp Profiler S W hiked eye Lineariaaion g Ba Level Peolile ganarse with Standard ink Profile Quick Profili ng Color ink level and To
130. ng Hop bel tba a gih Me h TaT mm ae p i A m D Muhim Images Business DAWG MullimediaW32 CAYTNSRioWCalibrat 93 Cugy Column Margin 0 flow li Le Total Nesting Size for Margin Printing of selected images G 19 Layout Management Create Nesting Job After arranging all images on the nesting layout canvas save the layout information optional and press Create Nesting Job button as below image to create Nested Job in the input job queue of the Rip program Goi 24 nd a E par ares Beane ea Press this button to transfer the nested job into the job management GUI of TOPAZ Rip main program i i reed ete maba il a 1 vt ibaa i PT A A l E E E A AS Job management when Nesting After creating Nesting Job nesting program will shut down automatically and new nested job will appear in the Input Job Queue window of the main program as below At the same time all individual jobs used for Nesting will move to Finish Job Queue window automatically When it is required to restore the position of individual jobs you can right click on the nested job and select Nesting Information menu You can select some or all jobs to be restored Ba Wee fire Ie Hole upro THERM o eee anf Mra 5 E alsa al 30 Jie Pee EOE tea sasieta weet dons 2 _ i m E Jane pn CT ii aii di
131. ngs and files are imported from the previous steps automatically except for ICC profile which need to be imported from other application manually Import ICC profile and save the given CMS TCM file again Color Adjustment and Proofing With TOPAZ CMS program you can open a test image and check the change of the result during your color adjustment with various tools by dynamic simulation on preview window or direct test printing in each step When you reach to the colors you targeted save the current settings as TCM file and TPS file Color Tweaking and Prootilns SOFT PROOFING FOR REAL OUTPUT MATCHING Coles Plaresarment Gat CPE i Saral naga Layout Print Gphions Colin Erali Color hiusteni Post fcript TOPAZ RIP s Soft Proof Irgat FEE Pal 8 image E i AGB Yeger Daai m ET preview Conte imaga alco 2 a oe dynamically OMAK Marto Geel ther ce it ET pi ep z r i r i ji ji Epi represent color changes U mi i due to user s Flue output ICE Frete ee eal cum RO TSI every attempt rene JET H Cf alt Users precisely predict FP ute Conbeecided Froli Wher Anadsbls js 4 2 u the color of output Sa a oea camee Ft a even before proof printing Preterve Pune Hue Cheyer Ci Magerta Even LJ tick Peal Litre e Pent entus v orekan crenn Cicen rsa Cree ek Orea Clow jee Loa Fa moei __cteata bree mee ee a Save TPS file Save TCM file E 19 Col
132. nning without people The RIP supports MIMO multi input multi output high production environment with complete flexibility with connecting many Mac and PC design workstations and many printers A 2 Overview Color Management You are color professional now without additional expenses Generally and frequently it has been regarded as the best method for color control to source good ICC color profile from a professional engineer The Rip provides A to Z of full range of practical color management to help you realize your own know how and satisfy your customers You ll feel it s very flexible to use the Rip s color management tools for any kind of your jobs in both cases of re using existing settings and developing new settings You need not fully rely on your dealer nor support from the RIP vendor with paying additional cost from now When even you don t have any spectrometer nor complicated profiler s w you can create your own color settings including ICC profile by your self TOPAZ CMS Wizard will help you find the fastest way to your targeted level of color quality in any circumstances Unrestricted curve tweaking tool and Soft proofing preview enables real time prediction and control of output color exactly You ll be happy with exact match between your expectation and real output Photo Quality Just differentiate your output from others using same printer Printers are evolving every year but large part of users does not keep up with
133. nt and temporary purpose on the specific Job You ll save your time by selecting what requires minimum modification among the TPS files Press OK button after selection of printer and TPS file spo aaun ead Select printer in the list Printer Shydus Pro 800 for the job Prirker Selupi Eaa euan Col Mensgement Set CMS Stylus Fro 4000 tom Select TPS file in the list Meria Ink Sat Reethitinn CNS File for the job Textured Fieve rl Paper Sheet Pa OREG Fever EFRA CPC Ter a a bir hechured fine art Paper Sheet PRY ORYEM filter EPSRC Wea Tastes Taitei Carens Poll Pig OHvile F3ineTA FPSCRHEROO Pig CAAS TID Qualy Mirren Wie Podi kry Paper Sernatte NE P OREL HHAH EPS Papbclelillelk Prog SAT 1440 Highs Textured Fine Ort Paper Sheet Pag CW Fae FPSCRHAIO MgC ey KW Texas 2 Pramean Lusker Phata Papes Pood Fi DAEL Fara EFEDRHSDI Frohe Lustre tin ji Select TCM file for reference Plan Paper Peg CRTFELE M Sryie Pro U tii to apply related color settings to the current TPS settings If nothing selected existing color settings of the TPS file will be used Click Advanced Setup to modify all parameters of printing for the job The modified TPS file Reference Settings settings will be used temporarily TCM file for the job for a specific job and those will not be saved as new TPS file No printer settings Job Control Job General ia 2 AMee TAU F Click Job General icon on the Job Contro
134. o not create ICC profile each time TOPAZ Rip s color treatment is designed for max freedom in color control and it is not dependent on ICC profiles TOPAZ Color control is predictable flexible and controllable to show the exactly expected colors on output 3 Max Color gamut secured beyond ICC Most of people agree that generally ICC profile makes output colors muted and dimmed This will cause critical problem in photographs fine arts posters banners and POP signs Also it is a kind of tedious work if you should create ICC profiles each time of every printing jobs because printing conditions like media ink machine resolution screen and other options are changeable every time ICC profile itself is just a part of TOPAZ CMS structure TOPAZ CMS is putting more weight on variety of color control within the maximized color gamut secured There s freedom of color correction separated from core CMS with dynamic preview simulation Powerful black enhancement graphical curve tweaking and other important and useful features for generating exactly expected print output 4 Overcoming the limitation of Ink Level Ink level is also very important point in signage printing In many cases total ink limit can be lower than 200 due to the 3rd party ink and media However ICC profile cannot meet the accurate color under the 200 of total ink limit The recommendation is to change the ink or media in this case However this is not allowed in the real wor
135. o save the current specific job settings together with the image for the job as JOB PACKAGE for future W reuse When you open and print the JOB PACKAGE you ll be able to get the identical result TCM file contains color related files like ICC or ICM TMI TLC and LUT and other color related options of brightness total ink limit contrast level change and etc TPS file also contains color related information together with other printer and media parameters like layout options and printing options like resolution or size So it is recommended to create required TCM files first and prepare required TPS files with referring to existing TCM files to get color related parameters TOPAZ PRINT SETUP Print port information Layout information and GLOBAL CONTROL Others resolution interpolation TOPAZ LINEARIZATION amp CALIBRATION i i TOPAZ COLOR MANAGEMENT Screen brightness contrast j Color level gray balance separation and ate TOPAZ MEDIA INFORMATION M dia setting information LOOK UP TABLE Color curve tweaking table l COLOR i Linearization calibration curve ORIGINAL TFS Verified and stored by userin the tolder Utilized and modified At any time if required lemporary changes for current job do not effect on original TPS for information consistency D 4 JOB CONTROL Copy and Modify Original IPS tle for tamporary us
136. ommended to check node and curve point PostScript is very sophisticated language C 11 First Running Job Management Loaded file is shown in the top queue section so called input queue If you loaded the file without pre defined job settings the current job setting will be applied to the file If you loaded the file with pre defined job settings for example via hot folders with job setting definition the pre defined job setting will be applied to the file If you d like to change job settings and layout you can do it with variety of useful functions in job setting menu and layout management menu When you re ready to print the file the Rip supports each automatic processes from automatic preview generation to automatic ripping and printing Certainly you can manually rip and print selected files with clicking buttons or simple drag and drop During the ripping and printing you can pause break repeat or abort the job in very stable way How to make preview with pre ripping Change of status Wait gt Loading gt 99 gt Ready 1 Select a job and double click This will change the mode into layout management mode as well as generating preview image or 2 Select a job and click eye Icon or 3 Check on auto preview button for automatic process default i Le Job Management in Input Queue 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 3 oh Auto Preview via Auto Send to Print Job Input Jobs gt Printer File Na
137. or Management Typical procedure in TOPAZ CMS If dark tone of test printing is bleeding or over saturated please reduce the value If the value is too small to represent color gamut required please increase the value In general linearization curve is not recommended to be modified But you can adjust mid tone of some or all color curves with using slide bar and reference curves easily Overall brightness and contrast adjustment can move white point and dark point of the curves It is useful to get more difference of saturation between light and heavy zones If any of color is too strong you can decrease the color separately This can be useful if the printout looks too red too blue too green or too yellow After adjustment of mid tone white point and dark point you need to adjust details by curve tweaking Narrow range or colors can be tuned by using this tool S POCO e Pee Black enhancement tool is very useful for backlit applications where you need darker gray and black Also you can make your gray scale redder bluer or yellowier with this tool Various Color Adjustment tools in TOPAZ CMS Color Correction parameters can be accessed through Print Option tab and Color Adjustment tab You can edit various parameters like Rendering Intent Base Total Ink Limit Color Levels Brightness Contrast Curve Tweaking Black enhancement Color enhancement Preserve hue and etc Detailed information for Color correc
138. or colorimeters Also the Rip provides very flexible Color Tweaking tools to overcome the limitation of rigid color profiles and it provides full sets of color combination for black generation and enhancement in addition to GCR UCR UCA module of profiler Exact Color Matching between Simulation and Output The Rip aims for What You Expect What You Get in color management Users frequently suffer from different output color from what they expected For example when they decrease 10 of cyan only but the result shows 5 decrease of cyan and unexpected 5 increase of yellow This happens because applied ICC profile distort user s color correction command TOPAZ RIP provides completely separated Color Correction module outside of Rip engine and ICC profiles This feature enables exact matching between what users expect and what real output looks like Users can easily do soft proofing with dynamic preview window during color correction including curve tweaking Eye Popping Colors beyond ICC profiles If you fully rely on restricted ICC profiles for your creative colored work you should think about it again Applying ICC profiles traditionally has dulled down the output color The Rip helps your creative coloring realized in the output beyond the rigid boundary of traditional ICC profiles by applying separated color correction module with enlarging color gamut of applied ICC profiles Typical Color Management Process Color Ink Level gt
139. or representation In this case of wrong color matching or lack of matched color set you can use color adjutment tools with color level control and total ink limit control tools Click the Add button to add another ICC output profile from other sources Rendering Intents Different devices have different ranges of possible colors different color gamuts and often have different paper colors or white points This creates special problems for color matching The four rendering intents defined by the ICC are essentially matching styles that address these issues in different ways Perceptual This rendering intent maps color smoothly preserving relationships between similar colors This prevents gamut clipping with its potential loss of detail and tonal banding problems Gamut clipping occurs when colors that are different in the input image appear the same when printed Perceptual rendering intent makes small compromises throughout the entire color space in order to preserve color relationships It sacrifices some precision of in gamut colors in order to ensure pleasing results Perceptual intent will produce the most predictable results when printing from a wide range of image sources for example when printing RGB images on CMYK devices or when trying to match CMYK devices that are radically different from each other We consider this foolproof setting to be best for users who handle the wide variety of images that commonly ente
140. orry about time consumption in press of huge nesting work Also TOPAZ Nesting supports multi page jobs with importing selected pages and manipulating each page differently A 3 Overview The most remarkable 14 differences in TOPAZ Rip 1 Color Profiling Wizard TOPAZ Rip has Profiling Wizard in it as a default which other rips cannot provide People can do linearization and profiling without profiler software and calibration devices just with naked eyes by using TOPAZ proprietary CMS wizard Users can achieve around 80 level of the quality from Professional Profiling through this Quick Profiling tool in a flesh and adjust the remaining color details with using our enhanced color control tools Also TOPAZ CMS wizard provides very unique ink limit chart and gray balance chart during linearization process of both quick profiling and professional profiling Human effect in CMS is mostly from the decision of ink cuts total ink limit and gray balancing like cool gray or warm gray We help users to get the most accurate result with providing this special easy and intuitive tool 2 Freedom of color correction with ICC independency Generally other rips are too dependent to ICC profiles so users will see unexpected results in the real output For example if you d like to decrease 10 of Cyan you may see 5 increased yellow on the print output unexpectedly This means users have difficulties in color correction if they d
141. point and wetting point Theoretically the color will look the same after the correct cut point However it is quite difficult to see color difference on CMYK chart especially for yellow See RGB chart below CMYK chart and refer to the difference in RGB to find the correct cut point of CMYK Lower cut point will save the ink consumption However it can cause too bright output with narrow color gamut Relatively higher value within the physically acceptable range will be recommended for better results Ink cut can be lowered but cannot be increased after completion of linearization later in the color correction step MYK CYK CMK CMY TETTESTE een ne SETE J ts E abt i EE E TTT over 300 E 15 Color Management Linearization This step will not be shown in Quick Profiling process TOPAZ Rip will use standard linearization curves for the specific ink set automatically The linearization curves will be enhanced and modified by the next step of Gray Balance settings Gray Balance Pure gray reference Warm gray reference This step is Gray Balance process Gray balance is a significant factor in determining what the overall color gamut will be We need to measure for gray balance because each person s color perception is different The human eye can detect any shift in neutrality when neutral areas are compared side by side TOPAZ Rip will print 2 charts of Gray Balance A chart and B chart w
142. pping tiling and etc immediately without any time lag Practical Mark Setup Intelligent crop mark and sewing market options helps you save media and enhancing accuracy and speed i a ik arangi tah Page selection is possible in Thumbnail preview of Job management mode Three Previews tants PEF 7 y Poche Tit a Le i ee aaa ae Pat rena TOPAZ RIP provides Thumbnail preview Layout preview and Simulation Preview with the best performance for each different purpose G 2 f Enable Ting Outhut Size SLES Teh mm Cherlap i 0 0000 rm O Tiling by Size A mm f Tiling by Grid ma HE Mui Apply Tiling Copy Frim Column i 1 Mumi Margin 1 0000 mm Rowi l Num Margin 0 0000 mi Fam Faed Par Rew boui FE H mm E ELD imat Onpa C E ree J ES bib m d Goole CU n A Ie Constuin Proportions Origin i Hi Lona men fam 0 0000 fren Rota P Hiri F Layout Management Layout Control Icons Tile Select Made Change Direc send Quick Crap and Tiling lo Job Manager to Print Job h oom Panning Ha Wy t Mode Change Change current Layout management mode into Job Management mode immediately e eee eee esseet weet eee Quick Crop ot Click Quick crop icon on the layout tool bar and mouse drag for cropping or tiling at any position and in any direction and size
143. profiles or profiles for common ink sets such as CMYK SWOP or High End SWOP If you are trying to match Pantone colors it may also be appropriate to select High End SWOP as your CMYK input profile because Pantone Process CMYK values are designed for output to the SWOP ink set RGB ICC input profile The RGB ICC input profile defines the RGB source for all of your RGB objects RGB input profiles can be from monitors digital cameras or scanners If you have a scanned images it is best to select your scanner profile as the RGB input profile If you have done any on screen color correction especially for Soft Proof you need to select your monitor profile as the RGB input profile If you do not have any RGB input profiles available it is generally safe to select the default generic ICC input profiles the Rip provides ICC output profile ICC Output profiles are created with regarding the characteristics of output printer like Resolution and screen type with combination of specific ink and media When selecting an ICC output profile be sure to select the profile that matches with printer characteristics ink and media set For output devices that print at multiple resolutions the Rip software provides profiles for each of those resolutions Choosing a profile with the wrong resolution will severely effect on the output Profiles with different screens dithering types will not greatly effect your output however they may cause slight shifts in col
144. r Environment Manager wizard And select your printer model among installed printers in the list You ll start to create CMS Color Management Settings for this printer Miodity Primor Setup EJ PM E Printer Stylus Fro 00 Bort i LETI ti Raheny Deisi Mode Fan quality s Pate Oriasi fhe Weave CIEmagS Check your own printing environment and adjust printer setting parameters in the next Dot fae y bamet step For example every different pass Ti resolution ink color set and screen will require different CMS development ETET Parameters shown here can be different aa E for each different printer model due to the Sk Slow Lina par bch Ja different printing technologies applied a Lee jis see Detailed information on each parameter can be investigated in the next chapter JOB CONTROL Ink Color Level and Total Ink Limit The next step is determining maximum ink levels for each color and total ink limit value This is very important step to achieve good color saturation as well as to save ink But it is very hard to determine values automatically It is highly advised that you cautiously analyze the printed chart and find the best values with referring to our guideline Color Management Sheol i Setilng CHM YE Max Ink amp Toial Ink Limit fete Stylus Pro 4500 2 Sang Cte Phat Bak oh ota Te Lit Lims p Ihid ines con bee gaed mare ancurctedy bry Sean MA Crt OME coloes in the printed
145. r Type it Spot Color Cancel or h RAN Calor Mode Ags Preview i A ee a et i e oO SS I F 36 Job Control Cutting option setup in Job Control When you imported jobs containing cutting data as spot color objects named with CutContour prefix youre ready to send the cutting data to cutting plotter now Go to Cutting Option tab of Job detail setup window and select your cutting plotter and cutting mark to print After printing the image and cutting mark by the printer the cutting data will be sent to the cutting plotter automatically with executing Cut server program Coenen Trage Lapit Print Options Colne Proves Plotter Setup EAI Solor Adjustment PostSor Cutting Option Se Plotter ULTIMA SC 14000 Cutting Contour send to otteen ge leslis Flatter S i a 7 Setup Manufacture Plotter s moa IMAGEN KOREA HPGL Compatible Se wee MAL TUH UL EA Si 14 MUTOH ULTIMA SC 14000 2 Cheose qutting mark Pon COMI TNS COM iron Delete Por Sete Click Setup button to see Cutting Plotter Setup dialog You can select cutting plotter and its port Ploter Setup ULTIMA SC 14000 cfa aeons here Press Default Plotter Setup to adjust auh Fonar Seun detailed settings of the plotter L a a There re Layout tab and Cut tab in Default Plotter Job Setup dialog You can adjust various layout parameters and cutting parameters Leial Sea x Co
146. r and etc Typical Procedure of Profiling Software Run Profiler s w and create or find adequate color charts to print Print color charts with applying setting information TCM file in the TOPAZ Rip Read the printed patch with spectrometer Setup parameters required Create ICC profile and Save ICC file E 12 Color Management Pritspen T TMI E ie be j F i i feruta parameter welt OOOOOOOOOOOOO x ja Es a Le ze Profile classification iho E a t2 ee Appicaion op mizaton Slander r mm ius G k Profile bpo f process colors CHWE a 2 Cor CMY ae ees Gari ee ce Daya peg en ge PEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHEEHEEEEE Po Primi settings 4 a Gamal mappeng gland mi as E chingi ne w l Ciam ieee Olotal selingi Slanidaed J Changi Msassannnuannnnnnnnnnnannnnnnnnnnn Bleck generation Open created ICC profile GOR satinga Elardanj Lean ee 2 saa JOR settings Total doi area ithe Maximum black _ os be h Sper bel epii Foe on F py rip ini Proof gellings Shared hang e Save TPS file oitancal Laii GUI example of profiler software Heidelberg PrintOpen Parameter Adjustment Guide during ICC profiling Under Color Removal UCR and Gray Component Replacement GCR are techniques used for making color separations work better in the printing process The concepts and techniques of UCR and GCR within the color separation process are
147. r example Overlap is applied to two sides of A piece and it applied to four sides of B piece of tiles G 5 t to drag len Layout Management is very conven It i ly iles by using mouse on flash modify and delete t add You can create and cl ina les ick the mouse to adjust t O PT OD ab Cc E 0 gt J o o Ps E O ie Oo g S oO E Qo ve z4 O O O H E S Oo 8a C D 2A H Ww Oo Ly D D A e og our O EERE EW E oO FE 5 ce fa s co On 5 O oO ow E _ gt oy oc IS k CO gt on D Sec oo if O O A GF O 6 lt f gt 7 5 Ew goa i Ze of s u Cc a fl 2 oo gt Q 2s lt c05 oF B a CO c oe gt n oE aE o co oN Ss c c O Do Dy 35 2 5 Dg Soo oS Lec ZC o 2 Cg Dra a Zap TE oog Pe alae oo sao HOS o gt SS n A 2 OD L ae rete OL co D oc Oo O c 5 0 g oo Sep a E 5 i 2 23 0 o as oo z G Q Q lt eoo G 7 N oO ns oO 2 oS 2c _ cg ve oq of wo O D a _ gt L a Sat oe Og ra Fos o o gt yn Q O lt O D wo oOo n Oo Cea a e cO we on 9 O lt oO Sg Lae 5 2N ose a Q EE I i dji Oo O 2 o E E 7p On amp HH Top O xl Ela is O D co nno 222 0 I i i Os E api ais Ai zat f gt c2 D E gan Fef GO Q O wi A C aa mov G 6 Layout Management You can create tiles by Tiling by Size Tiling by
148. r large format printing facilities It is usually not precise enough for processes where input images are well controlled such as color proofing and giclee Absolute Colorimetric When a color is not printable within the gamut of the output device this rendering intent simply prints the closest match It reproduces in gamut colors without compromise as faithfully as possible This produces the most accurate matching of spot colors Unfortunately it can also result in gamut clipping where two colors that are different in the original are identical on the print White points are similarly clipped which tends to cause similar color relationship problems in the highlights of images Such clipping and the resultant problems make this choice generally unsuitable for work involving anything but spot colors Relative Colorimetric When a color is not printable within the gamut of the output device this rendering intent prints the closest match along with an adjustment that maps white to the paper of the output This mapping of white point prevents the problems of Absolute Colorimetric when images are involved When producing color match proofs on inkjet printers which typically have larger gamuts than the printing presses being simulated this is a superior choice When a pair of ICC profiles is loaded for runtime linking one for the device to be simulated and one for the device being used this rendering intent will provide good precision minimal de
149. r only RGB RGB CMYK Image Vector Vector Image Vector Vector RGB Color A Color A Color A Color B Color A Color A Color B gt Color A for Vector and image RGB RGB CMYK Named spot A Image Vector Vector RGB CMYK CMYK _ Spot gt Color A for Vector and image Image Vector Image Channel Color A Color A Color B Color A Color Bj Color B Color A CMYK Color B gt Color B for Vector Ignore Spot channel RGB RGB CMYK Spot Image Vector Image Channel Color A Golr Goior Color ot Replacement with maintaining Gradation or RGB CMYK CMYK Spot Image Vector Image Channel D Q It is possible to change spot color with maintaining the gradation or patterns of the object only for named spot channels It is very useful to change color tones of a specific object if you define it as a spot channel Col F 25 Job Control For starting of Spot color replacement option you can select your spot color replacement table in the list if you created tables for the same printer driver before When youd like to edit the table or create a new spot color replacement table press setup button Special Color Replacement 0 eall Select a color table and press Setup button to edit the existing color table Select None and press Setup button to create your new color table ScrTable tsc EJ Special Color Aeplacemeni eter hipiai Tig Ommon Omi
150. r spectrometer devices How can we do color management in this case Fortunately TOPAZ Rip provides full sets of color management features in separation from color profiling This provides real freedom of color control for real application under various and tough conditions You can select basic calibration curves from sample curves list which the Rip provides You can edit the curve itself by trial and error On the basis of color calibration curve you can put every color control options like total ink limit color level curve tweaking brightness gamma gray balance and etc to match the color on the special media Total ink limit control for weather When you open the media box for printing ink absorption rate of the media can be different in according to weather temperature and humidity Because media may absorb moisture from the air or media can be affected by pre heating process like when using solvent printers So you can modify total ink limit value for better printing results in A High humidity amp High temperature amp A C A High temperature Low humidity f o Lower Ink limit A Higher Ink limit this case 4 F 30 Job Control Curve Tweaking In some cases printing results from theoretically defined color settings can be too smooth or beardless If you fully rely on restricted ICC profiles for your creative colored work you should think about it again It is true that applying ICC profiles traditional
151. re Delsuk bA Cocvpisca it ear Spaai Sp lyi Drgania Iui DorainiSi lul ina uf Fi lut Vokurintel ul Move Point You can move to new point from current point by mouse left button click and drag and drop Edit method Add Point When you want to add a point click the left mouse button on the new position of the curve Delete Point a ik If you click on the exist point by right button LS pi a then will be deleted Move Point by Click and drag to new position Caution You must to save the edited curve for reuse Edit Zone Middle Tone Zone High Light Zone lf you delete all points except for a single point you can edit the curve very easily like a left Figure by moving the single point Color Direction Brighter output lov Darker output Job Control Brightness and Contrast Bright areas will turn brighter and Shadow areas will turn darker Middle areas will be the same as before The problem is that if brighter areas and shadow areas increase middle tone areas will be lost which causes less smoothness This is one of the good and useful operation method for color control without image editor Especially when you need more vivid from scanned images you re recommended to control the color with putting small increase of brightness ex 3 and contrast ex 3 together Brightness Sie Ss This tool is slide control Brightness 100 o 100 F ri g oo 1 fa
152. rol dialog windows have two divided image sections up and down Upper image shows original colors of the selected image and lower image shows simulated colors under the application of various parameters from color correction ICC profile and etc After adjusting color related parameters users can push Apply button to simulate the result of applied color change Global Control Dialog Job Control Dialog SBlele ow eer mege Lagan Prd piara Coker Adormeni Gait Paper ee 9 42 TT re 4 1 xi Gece ihag Leyes Prai Qpsiece Cole Adiuateent Ouai ee ek mm te et Bania ania a enia nili ni 1 Press Apply button for applying changes of current parameters to the Soft Proofing dynamic preview F 2 Job Control Re Be e KART a Job Setup by selection of Printer and TPS file If you d like to do Job Control for a specific printer you need to have at least one Print Environment Setup file TPS for the printer which can be created from the Global Control s Printer Setup Also you need to have at least one TCM file which can be created from the Global Control s Color Management The Rip provides Default TPS file for each printer during the installation Press Job Setup icon to select original TPS file As explained before TPS file is created from Global Control and it contains every parameters for printing This Job Setup uses those parameters from original TPS file for the insta
153. rometers available in the market ow Fm Setup amp Calibration Select your device and press Setup button for setting Some devices support both of strip mode and patch mode Strip mode will allow faster process of CMS rtp Gammunlenton Part nics bi Cancel iaar m Read Fod O Patch mode E Strip mode Calibrator Calibratian abkbraioen Complebe I It is highly recommended to calibrate the device first The calibration method is different for each device For example if you re using DTP41 press Calibration Button and press button of device Then insert the Calibration strip provided in the device package In case of Eye one put the device sensor on white tile and press Calibration button After a while Calibration Complete message will appear Refer to details in the user s manual for each device White tile Color Management Now it is time to measure the printed chart The next step window will show spread sheet to gather data from your measurement Press Connect button Red circle will turn into Green to show ready sign ot Moot Lineoricatiom Chart GB Mewsureccant device tatu Not Connected oO Mortum device glalyg enna hed Cea L Ed i Malad fi MAP Aida PB OD rd a Measuring method is different for each device For example if you have eye one press the button and move the device with holding the button presse
154. rt Types SPP EPP ECP generally used type is ECP in the most of printers e USB Plug and play port Normally USB port cannot be recognized until plugging the USB cable into the computer e TCP IP Network type transfer port with LAN and IP address This port has subnet mask with IP address and port number Types RAW and LPR for UNIX e SCSI Very fast and wide bus port SCSI port requires some special driver for printing e FILE File port for saving the printed output as a file PRN file can be used for repeated printing without ripping again e TIFF A kind of file printing port for 1 bit TIFF separation driver e Null Virtual port for testing This port does not save to any output e Special Driver port Some printer driver does not require any real port in the Rip because the driver directly saves output file and send it to a specific DLL program which is communicating with the device The specification is dependent to printer vendors e g Megafile port for DGI Megajet ODFfile port for Fuji Uvjet and etc F 4 Job Control Job Image Layout a n g a z M S r A NGE 7 eau T Click Job Image Layout icon on the Job Control tool set bar You ll see Layout tab of Job Detail Setup window In this tab you can access to every layout management parameters except for tiling copying and nesting options Job Dimtail Setup Coke Arlee Pouca pa Cub Open Cena Imee Layout Print Spee Coker Pai er i7 mh Pood x Wa
155. s and cuts together 3 and use rip software and cut server program to send printing data and cutting data in sequence or in separate Preparing a file for cutting To prepare your file first you must define the cut path in a vector based drawing program such as Adobe Illustrator or CorelDRAW The cut path may be simple or complex as you desire it can range from a circle around a bitmap image or an outline of script text Once you create the cut path you must assign a spot color to it This spot color Specially the name not the color is the most important part of preparing the files as it allows the cutter software to determine where the cutter should cut the image The name of spot color for cutting contour data should have the default prefix of CutContour Large and small characters are identified differently for the naming rule CorelDRAW Tools gt Palette Editor gt User s Palette Select gt enan Cin Swat h Custom Spot Colors gt Add i Color gt Select color and click Ci Ete Dalete Swatch Add to Palette gt Enter a name ae PERCHER eee as CutContour and cloise Sort by Hane Sort by Kind Show Fired Field n Illustrator Swatch Palatte om curtis ae Lint View gt New Swatch gt Add Spot sire nme Swatch Options color with prefix of Open Swath Likeary CutContour gt put the color ag save Swatch Ubr ni to cutting object image oMwalch Uplinns peach Nama Cycentee Lo Colo
156. settings and press modify button if required Paca Maran L E 00D TOM MR BHO mm Fira Media OFF ae C 2 First Running Press each of activated Job Control icon to adjust the given default settings wee slo me T E9 RASS eau Check Print Options settings and adjust printing parameters like passes and resolution Also you can select Color related files like TCM file TLC file ICC profile and etc You are required to create and modify these files for yourself to utilize full options later ae aa ar E iga Edit linearization curve with using slide bar to fit S e S the overall color tone if required A o ee j You can simulate the change of output in the con E oe emi preview by pressing Apply button ed Siem i Noina Dai w fee waj Ataa Cay Gp Drea Li gj be ial t ee es paia i Diir lanimi ju vami u edi ively waltg bterval Te Carpi w Dirrarieaton i Dalauh iz fo Une OC lagu PCC Proale PGD befag iem CME DTMY for Chane OC Pind Proy rae imge erden Petceptual Wector rendering Pietepiiga Color Model Pig Chi Light lak Sepanaios Print a trial sample to see the current status of colors And then adjust the colors in detail with options in Color Adjustment tab Li Osipas Cal ty Find the best parameters of color control by using abuse simulation preview and trial printing in small size Cyan D Maeerea Vellore Cp iiach Tet
157. shop Different effect from various replaced colors i in the rip for Named Spot color change F 27 Job Control Job Color Adjustment TE TE SE YRaeiweu lt Click Job Color Adjustment icon on the Job Control tool set bar You ll see Color Adjustment tab of Job Detail Setup window In this tab you can access to Color Correction Adjustment settings like level ink limit curve tweaking and etc Printed results can be simulated suring any steps of your color correction adjustment by just pressing Apply button This dynamic preview option is very useful because you can monitor effects of your color adjustment work in real time If you calibrated your monitor you ll get more precise Soft Proofing feature Users frequently suffer from different output color from what they expected This happens because applied ICC profile distort user s color correction command TOPAZ RIP provides completely separated Color Correction module outside of Rip engine and ICC profiles This feature enables exact matching between what users expect and what real output looks like Color correction is also useful if you do not have accurate ICC profiles or you d like to immediate correction for special effect on a specific job Job Detail Setup General Image Layout Print Options Color Adjustment Quality Source Image Color Level ial a eae A al Cyan 100 x Eg i ink l Magenta 100 he nk leve jr
158. st values of copy option and press APPLY button Gal Sherry Neat fle Edit View Nesting Help OGM sao ea D269 w o mm Be w 17 0000 mm i x 0 000 mm so Fes Ae Vn 7110 mm me h mm ve yu imm m Fi We toh i E pa s ET 5 7 j 7 T 7 333 mm A D W3 MulimediaWa2 CWTNSRipWCalibrall imagas Business Duplicated selected image into many under the rules of copy option X Column Column 5 It is possible to select Margin 10 EI p multiple Images and Apply a copy them into f i na a H Dw mangir Row 3 Nurmi Bee eerie ie many sets at once Margin 10 mm Total Size 29 0000 x 440 1509 mm Ready Oe Fn m Saving nested layout TOPAZ Sherry Nesting provides independent file management for Nested layout information You save the layout information of nesting job as NLD Nesting Layout Design file and open it any time later for reuse it is very useful for complex pattern printing sove As Location 0 9 AMukimedia GL Music kol images ada Movies Mesit intel Mesting Layout Document Files nld Layout Management Selecting Zooming and Pannin Hae Click each icon for each option Select one image by clicking or multiple images by dragging Shift click will also make multiple selection Click vacant area
159. t Control Icons eLayout Tab eTile amp Copy Tab Tiling Cropping Selectable printing of cropped tiles Copying eSherry Nesting Concept of Sherry Nesting Sherry Nesting Overview Running Sherry Nesting O Q A WU N I e e O UI Ul OOO O00 0QQ Layout Management Overview of Layout Management One of the most distinct features of TOPAZ RIP is easy to use Despite the simplicity TOPAZ Rip brings every cutting edge feature required for professional outputs TOPAZ RIP s Flexible and Speedy layout edition Scaling Cropping Rotating mirroring Repeating and tiling in real time without time lag reduces your time and faults significantly TOPAZ Rip s Dual mode Interface allows you shuttle between Job Management Mode and Layout Management Mode immediately and interactively Users can easily access to Layout Management Mode and come back to Job Management Mode How to Access to Layout Management eClick Layout Manager Tab Press Layout Manger button Double Click a specific Job Right Click on a Job and select Layout in Context menu Quick Crop and Tile Quick mouse drag creates cropped or tiled plates in a flash Tiled image can be selected for immediate printing even in the job management window Real time PreFlight Pre ripped preview shows interactive results of various editing tools like rotating mirroring scaling Zooming in out panning selecting cro
160. t TIFF print driver TOPAZ Rip supports WinPrinter as well as printer specific drivers WinPrinter means universal driver to connect any printers by using installed windows driver In this case TPS file has no meaning and each WinPrinter driver has its own unique settings If you d like to setup a new Settings you re advised to add new WinPrinter driver from the same windows driver In TOPAZ WinPrinter driver it can control all parameters of windows printer driver and store those parameters in the driver itself So automatic workflow for windows printers can be enabled Windows printer cannot support CMYK separation so TOPAZ WinPrinter driver supports RGB icc profile for output profile option In TOPAZ TIFF Separation driver your CMYK file or CMYKS1S2 spot file can be separated as 1 bit TIFF images per each color Halftone angle size shape and LPI can be applied as well as other FM screens D 8 Global Control To add or modify TPS file settings you can click Advanced setup button in Printer Setup dialog window Select your printer and TPS file to edit first If there s no TPS prepared you ll be able to use default TPS If you have ready to use TCM files in the list you can select any of them to apply color related parameters to TPS settings by reference If you do not select any TCM file the TPS file s own color parameters will be shown When you click Advanced Setup button you can see glob
161. t and preferred gray balance with analyzing 72 kinds of gray charts This modifies Linearization curves O S i Q xX 2 3 O ICC profilin Create ICC profile with using reference profile of various std E 3 o Color Management Setup Adjust colors and dynamic simulation Test printing and save parameters Professional Profiling If you have Spectrometer to measure the chart please select this option During the process you can get measured data into the rip via direct connection of the device You can select profile creation option between level 1 profiling and level 2 profiling Level 2 profiling will require 3 party profiling software and more time for ICC profile creation but the result will be more accurate Quick Profiling If you do not have any Spectrometer don t give up You can do linearization and even create ICC profiles with TOPAZ Quick Profiling option only with naked eyes Color Management Setup This tool is After ICC process Profiling itself is not Enough for color management TOPAZ Rip provides variety of color control tools in very flexible way You can simulate the color and get it with the print out easily and accurately TA O S Q S 9 V S Q CMS Package Creation Save all or part of CMS files for one or many printers Color Management Professional Profiling Press Professional Profiling button on Colo
162. t menu of any Input Jobs or Print Jobs C 14 Global Control Concept of Global Control Overall Structure of Control Functions in the Rip Management of Settings Global Control Windows and Job Control Windows eFile Open and Save Job Package File Open Save Job Package eGlobal Print Setup e nput Queue Setup Color Management Wizard eEnvironment Options Setup D 1 D 2 D 5 D 6 D 9 D 11 D 12 Global Control Concept of Global Control The Rip is designed to make things faster and easy in any case of professional user preliminary user or multi user environment Job means image settings Sometimes people want to manage each different settings for reuse in the future and sometimes people want to make a immediate change of settings without regarding reuse in the future Global Control is for General Settings reusable and Job Control is for Individual Settings for the specific job without regarding future reuse Overall Structure of Control Functions in the Rip Global Control Sometimes users prefer automatic process with preparing every parameter of printing environment setup in advance The settings will be saved in input queues for reusing any time Also the Rip provides one stop wizard for color settings in a straight flow of quick media setup linearization profile creation or modification and color tweaking at one time which can be applied to each job in a specific
163. tal ink limit Automatic linearization with Gray Balancing Color Management Setup Color Twwaking and Proofing ICC profiling with std reference ink profile 5 Si io ami Color Management Setup CMS Package Creation Soft proofing simulation and trial printing Color adjustment and curve tweaking EAA IC Dl Sa SANGER KODER CA DR TCM Topaz Color Management file creation Sherry Nesting Program Press Sherry nesting icon on top of the input queue window of the main Job management GUI to run TOPAZ Sherry Nesting program Automatic amp Manual nesting layout Scaling rotation positioning overlapping Copy amp Repeat eMargin control Multi page PS PDF support eAnnotation and Crop mark from Mar 2007 C 7 First Running File Management Directories Related files and created data will be located in TOPAZ Rip program s file management directories as default You can find your data here However it is highly required to change the data with using TOPAZ Rip program rather than directly remove create move data here to there which may occur errors of the program H i TNSRip C Backup Calibration Calibration Patch Total ink limit test patch a Test print chart and etc CO ICCProfile Colorimeter Driver folder G BSTable 8S Table O CMYK Basic CMYK ICC profile GLa RAGE Basic AGB ICC profile GI LutTable LutTable Default Twea
164. ters in the next step For example every different pass resolution ink color set and screen will require different CMS development Parameters shown here can be different for each different printer model due to the different printing technologies applied Detailed information on each parameter can be investigated in the next chapter JOB CONTROL Ink Color Level and Total Ink Limit LMS Frim Mode T lWee Media Delaul Mode Resolulian Direction Page Dor Size Drini Lin arsaton Inpul IEC Profile RGR EYE i Outnut IEC Fraflin Protile image rendering Modify Printer Setup ak area aS es General Print Options Plaln Paper MU High Dualib Bi i Lolor Madal Fl CHELL Light Ink Separation Enhanced Method UK Press Quick Profiling button on Color Environment Manager wizard And select your printer model among installed printers in the list You ll start to create CMS Color Management Settings for this printer GUO screen Type Stochastic spol Typ Spot Size Line per inch ipi Wiping Interval Printer i V ciir rendering a Advance Setup ka Hep Lancel The next step is determining maximum ink levels for each color and total ink limit value This is very important step to achieve good color saturation as well as to save ink But it is very hard to determine values automatically It is highly advise
165. them Close view Quality issue is getting more important even when you print a single label in small quantity or an entire skyscraper wall as well as when you print photographs design works or artworks The RIP helps you utilize full capacity of your own printers with additional remarkable quality enhancement features in it for example QuBis screen technology Super cell and variable dot supporting sophisticated separation algorithm unique BiQubic interpolation technology perfect control of HIFI inks like Or Gr Lc Lm Lk and etc Layout Management True WYSWYG speedy editing with maximum of freedom One of the most distinct features of the Rip software is easiness to use Despite the simplicity the Rip brings every cutting edge feature required for professional outputs The Rip s Flexible and Speedy layout edition Scaling Cropping Rotating mirroring Repeating and tiling in real time without time lag reduces your time and faults significantly Practical Nesting More than just Media Saving TOPAZ Nesting Module is one of the distinct feature of this program There re superior features in it in comparison with others TOPAZ nesting has no limitation in rotation scaling overlaying copying and positioning without any time lag It does not require any intermediate calculations for any complex nesting work The nested job is only a few KB size even though individual jobs are over a few GB size This means you need not w
166. tion will be described in JOB CONTROL Chapter Print Options Tab Color Profiles Tab Color Adjustment Tab ate a fui ra nm Sa a Linearization curve Inout Embedded Output ICC profiles Ink level adjustment m 4 Rendering intent Total ink limit K Ink Leveld o Preserve Hue Brightness and Contrast is Adjustment Spot color replacement W Black Enhancement 5 ee CMY to K conversion Middle tone H z Adjustment of each color E E by sliding tool Lea Curve Tweaking Cyst H Magenta im Tibra iweni CMY o E E 20 Color Management CMS Package Management CMS Package means Packaged setting files for easy management like backup reuse or distribution CMS Package can include TPS file TMI file TCM file TLC file linearization LUT file curve tweaking look up table and ICC profile TPS Color Enviranment Manager CMS 1CM ss ea 1 i All options in Professional Profiling in Print Options tab i ather tabs Linnaritation with Densiomette Spectrometer l Media control a TMI Lovel Profile genurae with Standatd lek Profile P Printers output settings Paper size f Level 2 Prolile generate wiih other professional Prother 2 Screen seltings 2 Margin anil 4 Linearization curve TLC 3 Scale 3 input prolila te icc 4 Rolation Mirror Quick Profilina 6 Output protile i a Position Oset n
167. to unselect all Left click for zoom in and right click for zoom out in Zooming mode Drag the layout in panning mode Zoom in p 3 200m yul Dragging for selection of multiple images wet 59 3701 in Adjusting Nesting Layout Canvas Size h 139 3701 int Adjust the canvas size with typing appropriate number in the left tool oe wes 0 000i Adjust image size Bm h 0 0000 Select a certain image or multiple image and typing appropriate number in the left tool a he wi SULUUUS mm oh 312712 im ER R O00 mm lal tom mm a i 4 ri ed imme yo mm OL JS x 0 0000 gt ato Re positioning and overlayin Select a certain image or multiple images and drag it into another place Or edit appropriate number in the left tool box Sequence of overlay First Back Last Front method The latest loaded image will be located at the front in the nesting layout canvas G 18 Layout Management a Rotation o amp EJ CI Select a certain image or multiple images on the nested layout and press buttons to rotate in left direction or right direction a8 gt Total Size for Printing of Nestin When you select a certain image or multiple images on the nested layout the size of selected images total size for printing of the selected images and the position of the selected images will be calculated automatically M Sherry Nest Eko Edit Wane Mesi
168. trol tool set bar You ll see Print Options tab of Job Detail Setup window In this tab you can access to Color management settings Printing mode Screen Media setup and etc dol Vator batlue e Color mode Select your color mode from the available modes in the list Dakr Adair Ponsa Cutting Optio Source mE Generel linke Laer Pont Option Diks Alien Colon Mock SITES pF Line Heka Flaw Paper e Color setup TOPAZ Rip provides unique Spot Ink Definition option here Pod Mice Celia Mode MO heaped Renon ta mein B Pass a iea Dai Sine Teen ae CTE acai Spot Sine LE Fe A he 5r CO Hiero Waer te be C Baas Q Sareea Gee e Screen type various kinds of screen type can be selected Spot type size and LPI can be adjusted for AM screen like Halftone or Clustered CMYKSS CMYKSSS CMYKSSSS CMYKLcLmSS are those color modes S means Spot color ink and user can define any color of ink for customization e g CMYKLcLmOrGr CVYKWWWW CMYKCMYK CMYKLcLmCM and etc S can be used to print special colors or increase the saturation of existing ink e Media setup each printer driver has its own unique media setting parameters You can use default collection of media or you can create your own media profile Media profile will be saved in TMI file for each printer driver e Printing mode There re list of frequently used printing modes as combinations of resolutio
169. u can save tho settings by Liose after Save Printer Setup button Profile Generation with Standard Reference Ink Profile Profile Name ShermpaS0_PigteleLm_PLAIN_fa0 High Oualiny_d_ Variable Dot TIL i0 Standard Reference ink Profile Epson Piga Glossy Photo GCAID w COC t Back Finish Cancel 1 Help COLORMAN x A Profile Generation complete E 10 Color Management Advanced Profiler Level 2 slapo gt Pinotiling O Levell Profile Generation with Standard Reference Ink Frofile Select Level 2 profiling at this time Shenpa50_PiesceLeLmPLAN_720 High Guallty4_Varlabbe Do1 TILA Advanced users can create ICC profiles with using 3 party profiler software and spectrometer devices Close the wizard with pressing Finish button here and create ICC profile with your own profiler O Level Profile Generation wilh other Prolessional Proliler Lolor Tweaking aid Prooiag Window hared CMS Window is shown after finishing fie ian You can soluti proper chard image and primi iE ler your own asiriga inigi apegar ened rel rary peatiling salwar Press Finish button to go to Color Management Setup process where you need to print color patches with applying results of previous processes like ink levels total ink limit linear curve and gray balance for your final ICC profile creation with measuring printed charts and calculate data with ro e your own 3rd party profiler software EE
170. ue they can do it but actually they can treat just image files not PS or PDF only on Rip amp Print on the fly Some rips make trick by ripping with down sampling to improve the speed TOPAZ Rip has no limitation in file size and print output size Even 100M long printing can be possible without overload in memory and CPU Topaz Rip requires max 3G of free hard disk only even how long the file or printing size is This option is very useful when nesting media saving Topaz Nesting is using PS information directly and it Rip amp print the nested layout on the fly without overload Quick and intuitive layout management Despite the simplicity TOPAZ Rip brings every cutting edge feature required for professional outputs TOPAZ RIP s Flexible and Speedy layout edition Scaling Cropping Rotating mirroring Repeating and tiling in real time without time lag reduces your time and faults significantly Also TOPAZ Rip provides interesting page mark setup crop marks are inner sided also it supports different mark types Unique concept of nesting for practical use You ll find the totally different concept of Nesting in TOPAZ TOPAZ Nesting does not require importing of ripped images If we import ripped raster images on nesting layout we ll not be able to freely edit each job and total size of nested job will be too big to handle In TOPAZ Nesting users can load multiple images and run re scaling overlay re positioning rotation and copy
171. uked eye Linearisstion i Rendering intet ICC 6 Ripping resolution Level 1 Prolile generate with Standard ink Profile 8 Color model T Antialiasing 8 Interpolation In Color Adjustment tab z 1 CMYK Level Tiling Colying Color Management Setup 7 Total ink limit Nesting information ff H his end Proofing 3 Twoak cure LIT i fer z MS File TCM Generation 4 Brightness GOAIEN LUT will not be included as osten Poning CMS Package Creston gt i f EAE E s e eeeee lt a If you click CMS Package Creation button Color Envronmont Manager Version 25 oo Copyright 0C 204 208 IMAGEN KOREA Ca All rights reserved on the initial window of Color Environment Manager wizard i A you ll see the right window for H i MG Package io creation of CMS packages A ciecrte cms pacias ameu p Lips i Include Printer Setup ips Create to Single Package File or Including TPS and TMI Flinchade Media Setup ani yy Citta to each Package Pile Create single package inateBed Prinkuet CMS Files Select All Deselect Al for the printer or create reag Shaba a e E Grand Sherpa S0 p P amp Grand Sherpa 50 ll multiple packages for ee Shope Sh Pigde PLAIN Super High Spindl ermal fot THe F F Sherpa S_Pigbelcbm_ PLA fal High Quality Variable Ook MLE each different setting E E Sherpa S0_Pighc chm FLAN High Guallty 4 Varlable Dot TIL4A00 Select printer and CMS settings to be packed CMS P
172. use it for many kinds of media Users can edit and control the parameters like total ink limit and color curves in the RIP software precisely and easily UCA Under Color Addition adds CMY where black is present in a photo UCA is generally not desirable in offset printing and shouldn t be used unless the dark areas are absolutely devoid of those colors Use UCA only after studying its effects carefully as it can cause disastrous results if you don t know precisely what you are doing In its defense however let it be said that UCA can also turn a flat lifeless photo into a much richer more attractive one if one knows what one is doing Table size of ICC profile is recommended to be large enough After creation of ICC profile save or copy the ICC file at TNSRip ICCprofiles Pinter_name folder Go back to TOPAZ Color Management Setup window and open the created ICC profile in output ICC profile menu and save TCM file again You can complete your additional color management settings like brightness control or curve tweaking with simulation and test printing Total color related information including linear curve ink limit profiles and color adjustment settings will be saved in TCM file You can save TPS file together here E 13 Color Management Quick Profiling select Printer Printer Grand Sherpa 50 Loampany PMP A Cancel _ Check your own printing environment and adjust printer setting parame
173. using spectrometers and profiler software General users can get acceptable and pleasant colors by using Quick profiling tools of TOPAZ Rip even without spectrometers nor profilers Certainly it is the best to use high end Spectrometer and profiler software if you already have them However isn t there any alternative idea to control your color without them Or should you purchase those expensive device and software be trained for them with paying additional cost and use them with consuming significant time and manpower only to print single output of inexpensive POP sign TOPAZ RIP will save your time and cost by providing very practical Quick Profiling tool where you can adjust colors by only relying on Naked Eyes The Rip s Soft Proof preview dynamically represent color changes due to user s every attempt Users precisely predict the color of output even before proof printing With using this tool you can reuse standard profiles provided in the package and adjust colors with variety of color adjustment tools to get preferred colors in easy and prompt way Profile generation by using Using naked Topaz ink reference profile eyes only ce EEEBEEHEESE Tint Using Spectrometer only Profile generation by using Topaz ink reference profile linearization T Hiji iilii cocceeeeeee a atl Using rouse A i TN hy bin i Spectrometer Profile ETE By and 3rd party meer 3rd party aa Ban
174. values will keep the aspect ratio of original image If net non proportional scaling is possible 100 0000 Constrain Proportions Print origin control edit box units are in millimeters Origin value is the same with offset width in image layout tab of Job Control Global Control window Each value will ba forced ta he the same by the Rip automatically Printing will start from the origin position if margin is zero Margin value is also accessible through image layout tab of Job Control Global Control window Orgin 0 0000 fom 0 0000 Mirmor m Hotate ay X position wa f Y position Hotate image Mirror Image On Ott Toggle button 90 180 270 360 0 degrees per clicking the button Size tool and Scaling tool have method of non constrain proportion and you can apply different ratio of X Y size from original ratio In this case you need to turn off constrain proportion check box You can use Mirror image ICON and Rotate ICON simultaneously amar G 4 Layout Management Tile and Copy Tab Click Tile amp Copy Tab located under the Layout Manager Tab You can control tile size tile numbers and numbers of copies here Tiling When your print output size of a certain job is bigger than width of printer or media you need to utilize tile printing option you will be able to sew or paste edges of tiled pieces to make bigger print output There are three methods of tiling
175. will change into Finish button after create ICC profile creation Press Finish button to go to Color Management Setup process which is the final step of CMS in TOPAZ Rip M Levelli Level gt Profile Generatiqsiindard Sobeni 40 Ink GCR2S S bLevell slapd Froliling i Profile Generation with Standard Reference Ink Profile Profle Name Sherpani PigbeLeLm FLAN t20 High Quality_4_Variable Dot TILA Standard Relerence Ink Profile Epson iol aC ee Photo GERI raile Generatin ps shos ay hole Ch Eoson pigat Glo 664 Photo ULHS Epson Pig Te Glossy Photo UCROIO A standard ink Coated F Dyebl Glossy Photo UCAS HP Pig4C Glossy Photo GCRIO HF Pigdl Glasay Pht UCAS HP Piate Glossy Photo UCAUID HP Fiut Glossy Photo UCROMK SO Japan Standard dC Ink Crate standard Solvent dl Ink GLAU Color Tweakin d Proofs standard alent BE AK GERD finiching Color Tweaking and Proofing standard Salven nk ls a anehna Gee Wizard You can select proper US SWOP 4C Ink Coated g devine Spectrometer and Id party protling software ARer generation of profiles tra pressing Add output protiles Finally yau can manage a whole Color Sem ngs mei the semings by pressing Save button of CMS ern i ihe Check the mama ol TEM file belore saving T bringing Ciption Tab COC bil rience ilis poesible lo manage whole miming parameglers egiling inane Including color gottings and other npiona together In TPS fle format Yo

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