Xerox IntegratedPLUS Automated Color Management

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1 Xerox IntegratedPLUS Automated Color Management Brochure Xerox IntegratedPLUS Automated Color Management Hosted. Quick. Accurate. Productive.

2 Take color accuracy to new heights. With Xerox IntegratedPLUS Automated Color Management, you can produce color print jobs that match your customers expectations and do it more quickly, more accurately and more productively than you ever imagined even from multiple locations. This unique Xerox solution is the first start-to-finish color workflow solution of its kind. By seamlessly combining a cloud server, local applications and powerful digital front-end workflow solutions, IntegratedPLUS Automated Color Management gives you real-time, remote access to a cohesive suite of hardware and software components that automate critical aspects of your color management processes. The solution combines the speed and productivity of web-based cloud technology with the accuracy and efficiency of a powerful color management workflow. Xerox IntegratedPLUS Automated Color Management leverages the strength of our technology partners to help you get more prints out the door faster. 2

3 Keep costs of managing color grounded. Whether your business is direct mail or consumer packaging, or whether you produce brochures or promotional materials, it s essential to have color that s accurate and consistent. Colors that don t match the version you printed last time or that don t meet brand specifications take extra time and money to correct. And those costs can get out of control quickly if you re dealing with multiple digital presses at different locations. Xerox IntegratedPLUS Automated Color Management offers you a single color management solution for your entire fleet. It can greatly increase the efficiency of your workflow by allowing you to remotely access and respond to the status of your Xerox presses. By partnering with industry leaders in color management, Xerox can provide for all your color management needs. With Automated Color Management, your color expert is always on site to make important color decisions and adjustments, so you can keep productivity up and costs down. Automated Color Management also lets you know when you need to calibrate and create color profiles. Plus, it is compatible with your existing color profiling technology. What is the cloud? And what can it do for me? The cloud provides access to a wide array of solutions and capabilities that can now be used wherever and whenever they are needed without buying additional hardware or software. The cloud gives you greater flexibility in assigning IT budget and resources by reducing the need for on-site IT expertise. According to a leading software company, as much as 80% of IT budgets go to maintenance. Now, that money can be redirected to innovation and value creation. With cloud services, you don t have to upgrade software to ensure that every site is using the exact same software configuration. Color expertise is centralized. It s simple to scale a solution to meet your individual needs. Simply put, the cloud is represented by multiple servers running at a remote site. From this site, all data and procedures are combined into a single color management workflow that can be easily stored and accessed from multiple locations. 3

4 Get the job done right the first time with Automated Color Management. Delivering accurate, consistent color can be complicated and labor-intensive. Often, there are several people involved in the color workflow who use different tools and have varying levels of color management experience. The workflow is highly prone to human error. Xerox IntegratedPLUS Automated Color Management reduces complexity and increases accuracy with automation of press monitoring, profiling and spot color updates. Successful color management starts with process control. At the heart of color management is process control. To start, you must ensure your device is in spec or color quality will suffer. Automated Color Management provides a simple automated way to monitor print device color quality. The solution enables you to monitor engine color from a centralized location by putting your entire color platform in the cloud where data analysis can be easily done. By utilizing cloud-based Software as a Service (SaaS) color management, there s no need to have multiple sites running local color management packages that use different versions or settings to analyze color data. Local applications serve as a secure interface between the cloud and your print server. With your color expert at a centralized location, you no longer need so many players in color management. Instead, your print operators are available to focus on their key tasks of managing jobs and running presses. The result an intelligent and seamless solution that lets you control everything in a single, consistent workflow even for multiple locations. With an automated workflow, process control is easy. Color targets are printed, read and uploaded within seconds. The system provides in- or out-of-spec feedback for the entire fleet along with procedures for any out-of-spec engine that requires color maintenance. After this is complete, other color management tasks can be performed including remote creation, addition or deletion of profiles and spot colors. Getting Started First, you ll identify a fleet-wide color expert(s). Xerox will train that professional to quickly and easily monitor color quality and perform recovery steps if required. Your color expert begins the automated procedure by running a local application, which provides a bridge between the cloud and the digital press(es) on your local network. With one click, the color expert can initiate the automated activity of checking color against your specification, from one location. Color targets are submitted to each press, printed and read by an inline spectrophotometer (ILS). Xerox automates color management and, in combination with partners such as CGS ORIS and CMI, offers a closed loop process. The result is more saleable prints from more print engines. (If an ILS is not available, an offline spectrophotometer can be used.) The data is collected from each press and returned to the color expert for immediate analysis. The color expert submits the data to the cloud for review and archiving. The IntegratedPLUS Automated Color Management software verifies whether color falls within your predefined specification. If the press is within range, the activity is completed; if the press is outside of your aim, the color expert is trained to troubleshoot and follow procedures to return your press to the established color tolerances. 4

5 Predefined workflow and printer recovery steps save time and ensure consistency Color Expert performs printer color quality inspection from PC 2. Target sheets are printed and then scanned by the inline spectrophotometer, if available 3. Printer DFE returns data to the Color Expert 4. Data analysis is completed and indicates in or out of specification 5. Color Expert submits data to the cloud for later analysis and archiving 6. If printer color is out of specification, recovery procedures are started Color Expert In spec = all is good or 6 Fleet Color Management Color Expert is trained to follow predetermined recovery procedures for each engine Recovery Procedures for Out-of-Spec Presses If a press is out of spec, a recovery process will be initiated to get you back in production quickly. Recovery steps may include maintenance tasks such as: calibration profiling Xerox will help you configure and set up the right print specification and level of tolerances for your shop based on your color and productivity requirements. Whether you print mostly internal office applications or color critical/demanding graphic communications applications, Xerox Professional Services will help you set up a recovery procedure to fit your needs. re-checking press maintenance re-checking critical DFE settings checking environment conditions 5

6 Answering All Your Color Management Needs From prepress through printing. From process control, to profiling, to spot color creation. Xerox works with industry leaders in color management so you can confidently perform all your color management tasks. To create consistent color time after time, you need to ensure your presses are within your predefined color specification. We provide your color expert with tools to make it simple to monitor your presses and get them back in spec when needed. The solution also offers remote administration of critical color resources such as ICC profiles and CMYK spot colors. For those engines equipped with an ILS, your color expert has quick access to the presses performance across the room or across the country. Select industry-leading color management partners have unique access to new remote DFE and print engine interfaces. Partner solutions provide color management support across the Xerox portfolio as well as non-xerox digital and offset presses. Partner applications such as CGS ORIS LYNX, and CMI SaaSColormanagement.com are used to check for in or out of specification as well as to create profiles and update spot colors. For process control, partner software performs the color verification by sending a single page test target to the local printer and validating its response against a known target specification. Remote administration of your resources allows you to access your press s Xerox DFE from a centralized location. Whether on site or off site, your color expert will have access to your entire fleet from a single user interface. Xerox offers one of the most secure and robust SaaS color management solutions in the industry today. Xerox and its partners work behind your firewall by providing a dedicated local application that eliminates the need to expose your printer resources in the cloud. Manage your key color resources from anywhere. With automation comes improved productivity and reliability over manual practices. Your color management becomes far more predictable and efficient, making multi-site color management a breeze. With Automated Color Management, your shop does not require highly trained color experts at each site, you save on time and materials, and you can be confident in a proven Xerox solution. If an inline spectrophotometer is available, color checks as well as creation of ICC profiles and spot colors can be done remotely using partner tools. You can even install, update and delete color resources from an off site location. Process Control for Printing Desired Range Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Day 6 Day 7 Day 8 Day 9 6

7 The solution enables your color expert to collect spectral data and build a profile for one or a fleet of presses of the same model. (Profiling for each press model should be addressed individually since there are variations in gamut between press types.) Once approved, a profile can be installed remotely to one or more engines. This saves valuable time and increases shop productivity. Spot color profiles can also be created, installed, deleted or updated for both PANTONE and custom colors. With spot color broadcast, you can easily export color settings across the same model of press in your fleet. In addition, working with partner tools, other digital or offset presses can be brought into the same workflow and take advantage of the same unique capabilities. Please consult with your Xerox representative for details on press and DFE support for specific solution components. How is automated profiling done? The color expert, utilizing a partner color management application, submits a profile builder target to the press. The DFE RIPs and prints the target. The press uses an inline spectrophotometer, if available, to read patches. The press returns spectral data to the DFE. The DFE returns data to a partner color management application. The color expert inspects the press s gamut and then creates a new profile. Once the new profile is approved, the color expert remotely installs it on the DFE. New targets are printed and scanned to ensure the press is within tolerances for profiling for your shop. If adjustments are needed, profile iteration may be performed as part of the partner tool, until the press is within specification. Spot colors are created using similar procedures. A partner color management application collects important information about the press s color gamut. The color expert uses this gamut information to select the optimal CMYK recipe. The resulting custom or PANTONE spot colors can be updated remotely or installed by updating the DFE resident spot color library. 7

8 Immediately reap the benefits of a powerful color management workflow. Wherever your color expert is located, with Xerox IntegratedPLUS Automated Color Management, you can produce great work more quickly, accurately and productively than ever before. Confident Color Xerox prides itself on the fact that we deliver industry-leading, automated color management technology across our digital color portfolio. In conjunction with the Xerox presses, Xerox Confident Color a collection of the finest color management technologies and services delivers more outstanding color and more saleable output. From technology to consulting expertise, to business development tools, to custom solutions, Xerox Confident Color can help you delight customers, produce more jobs, reduce your costs and grow your business. Partnerships with some of the leading names in the industry, such as CGS ORIS and CMI, allow you to be sure that your presses work together seamlessly to provide you with high quality, accurate and repeatable color reproduction on all your presses. Automated Color Management allows your organization to: Improve productivity and reliability over current manual process Cut costs by making color management far more predictable and efficient Simplify multi-engine/multi-site color management Lower labor costs Reduce manual errors and eliminate wasted time and materials Leverage your current technology investment no new IT investment needed Gain confidence knowing that you have Xerox support Please consult with your Xerox representative for details on press and DFE support for specific solution components or go to Xerox Corporation. All rights reserved. Xerox and Xerox and Design are trademarks of Xerox Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. 04/14 BR9593 CHENA164 PSGBR-17UA 610P730410