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February 12, 2020
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APPE 4 /5 Spot Color Handling?

  • February 12, 2020
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Hello, 

 

I work for a Wide/Grand format printing company that has several 3 meter digital inkjet printing machines. All print output uses CMYK Process inks. When we output large qty. PMS color chip charts from AI with their process color chips next to them for prepress operators color reference we have found inconsistencies lately when printing jobs that only have 1 or 2 of these PMS colors in them. I have found  that APPE 4 has a limit of 127 PMS colors it can "handle". Our PMS chart AI file has over 1130 PMS colors in it. What can we do to get better results or consistency of the PMS colors with our file using APPE 4 with the ColorGATE v10 or Caldera v13 RIP? 

 

Thank you for any info in advance!

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Correct answer Ben-JoyceDES1GN

Bit late to the party, but we had this problem yesterday and have come across a workaround for this. 

 

For anyone else that comces accross this issue, we have found a solution for us (We use Caldera V15.1)

We was trying to print a full pantone board as came accross the same issue ripping PDF-X4.

We exported our PDF'S as PrePress and Caldera allows us to Rip a full Pantone chart and not just the 127 Limit.

We then tested a few colours exporting as PDF-X4 to check the colour consistency against ripping as a PrePess and it yeilds the same colour/results (Epson Surecolour Printer) 

So PDF'ing using PrePress was our solution and for us yeilded the same colour results.

 

Hope this helps if anyone else comes accross this issue/problem.

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Ben-JoyceDES1GN
Ben-JoyceDES1GNCorrect answer
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July 19, 2023

Bit late to the party, but we had this problem yesterday and have come across a workaround for this. 

 

For anyone else that comces accross this issue, we have found a solution for us (We use Caldera V15.1)

We was trying to print a full pantone board as came accross the same issue ripping PDF-X4.

We exported our PDF'S as PrePress and Caldera allows us to Rip a full Pantone chart and not just the 127 Limit.

We then tested a few colours exporting as PDF-X4 to check the colour consistency against ripping as a PrePess and it yeilds the same colour/results (Epson Surecolour Printer) 

So PDF'ing using PrePress was our solution and for us yeilded the same colour results.

 

Hope this helps if anyone else comes accross this issue/problem.

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