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Achromatic Color/Separation

The term achromatic composition is a term used in process engineering for the electronic reproduction of color sets.

Areas of an image that become black or gray anyway are not built up by the portions of the colored basic colors (CMY) (as generated by the color build-up), but by black printing ink.

Figure 1: Comparison of Chromatic build-up versus Achromatic build-up - original image

Figure 2: Comparison of Chromatic build-up versus Achromatic build-up structure - Achromatic build-up

Figure 3: Comparison of Chromatic build-up versus Achromatic build-up - Chromatic build-up

Additive Color

Additive color is a method to create color by mixing a number of different light colors, with shades of red, green, and blue being the most common primary colors used in the additive color system.

Adobe

Adobe Systems is one of the world's largest software manufacturers and focuses on products for the media and creative industries.

Groundbreaking developments are Postscript and its "successor" PDF.

The current versions of the graphics and multimedia programs are summarised in the Adobe Creative Cloud.

Adobe Acrobat

PDF

Adobe Creative Cloud

Bundle of creative / multimedia programs from Adobe Systems.

Adobe Illustrator

Illustrator is considered the industry standard in vector graphics. In addition to a wide range of creative functions, Illustrator is especially impresses with its ability to open and edit PDF files. The following problems can occur when editing PDF files in Adobe Illustrator:

  • Layers in a PDF file are lost when opened in Adobe Illustrator.
  • Color constructs such as DeviceN, Grayscale, and Bitmap cannot be edited in Adobe Illustrator. Editing colors can only be mapped without fault if exclusively CMYK or RGB is used in conjunction with Spot Colors.
  • Embedded fonts in the print file cannot be used. The presence of the fonts on the local system is required for editing text.

Adobe InDesign

Layout creation

Adobe Photoshp

Picture processing

Alternate Color Space

Spot Colors have an alternate Color Space that is used for conversion to the target Color Space if the Spot Color cannot be directly separated in the output. The following Color Spaces can be stored as an alternate Color Space for spot colors:

  • CMYK - was stored as the default value in the early days of print production.
  • RGB - rarely used in practice
  • Lab - is used by default in practice nowadays, as this ensures that a conversion to any target color space will result in the smallest possible ∆E value.

Approval Dashboard

It has been possible for several versions to generate Approval Reports in the Workflow and download them locally. Subsequently, these reports had to be sent manually by e-mail to the responsible employees.

With version 1.11.1, an Approval Portal is available as a cloud service that communicates with the local Workflow. Approval Projects can be generated in the Workflow and transferred directly to the Approval Portal. The responsible person receives an e-mail with a link to the Approval Dashboard, where they can accept or reject the respective approvals without having to register. The decision of the responsible person is automatically transferred to the Workflow with a corresponding comment.

Approval Project

An Approval Project can consist of one or more approvals (Approval Reports). Approval Projects can be created locally in the Workflow and managed in the Approval Dashboard in the Workflow. However, the content of an Approval Project can also be transferred to an Approval Portal, which allows for the possibility of online approval by the end customer.

Approval Projects were first provided with version 1.17.2. In earlier versions, individual Print Items were made available to the end customer via an Approval Report by e-mail or online via the Approval Dashboard.

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