Canon UK has today launched Prismacolor Manager, a cloud-based, colour management software that enables commercial and in-house print service providers (PSPs) to measure and validate colour across Canon and non-Canon CMYK inkjet and toner printers over multiple locations.
Using a simple, step-by-step process that carries out checks on quality and consistency, Prismacolor Manager verifies colour accuracy against recognised industry standards, such as those specified by Fogra and Idelliance, or user-defined targets and tolerances, allowing operators to compare and precisely replicate printed colours.
Prismacolor Manager offers PSPs an easy way to confirm and visualise the colour quality of digital prints against a chosen target by clearly structuring the digital colour measurement process, simplifying how results are displayed and analysed, and collecting colour measurement results from different printers. The program validates and grades the results of the analysis against defined standards.
The software helps minimise errors either by automatically submitting the measurement charts with the correct settings to a Prismasync, or Fiery controller, driven device or by displaying the correct colour quality settings on screen as instructions for the operator. During the measurement, illustrations provide real-time feedback and checkmarks after correctly carrying out each step.
Using Prismacolor Manager, operators can validate colour quality in four ways:
– From a Prismasync print server, a test chart is printed with the correct settings and measured via the digital press’ internal colour sensors. Validations are then uploaded to Prismacolor Manager. This whole process occurs automatically.
– From Prismacolor Manager, an ID-coded test chart is automatically printed with the correct colour settings to a Prismasync or Fiery controller-driven CYMK engine, and measured via a compatible X-Rite i1 Pro or iSis measurement device, linking the validation results to the test via the test ID.
– An ID-coded test chart is downloaded from Prismacolor Manager and manually printed on any SNMP-enabled CMYK printer using the colour quality settings displayed in Prismacolor Manager. The chart is then measured via Prismacolor Manager using a compatible X-Rite i1 Pro or iSis measurement device and the validation results are linked to the test via the test ID.
–Â A standard test chart for colour validation is measured via Prismacolor Manager for validation using a compatible X-Rite i1 Pro or iSis measurement device.
Prismacolor Manager will be available from May 2023.
