EFI Colorproof XF Sample Configurations

EFI Colorproof XF is your perfect solution if you are a ...

Commercial printer
Creative agency/Corporate Marketing
Newspaper printer
Digital photographer

Commercial printer

Commercial printers want to:

Check the colour and content of their jobs
Reduce preparation times
Cut ink and paper waste
Work according to standards like ISO 12647, SWOP or Sicogif

Recommended product configuration

commercial printing configuration This configuration allows you to install the Proofing Server centrally on powerful hardware. From the Client Option, an unlimited number of network users can be equipped with the Job Monitor, allowing an easy submission of jobs towards the Proofing Server. One privileged user can be made an administrator, managing workflows, settings and user rights.

The Colorproof XF Server functionality offers everything you need for state of the art contract proofing: PostScript, PDF, Scitex CT/LW and Delta list files are processed, colour managed and output on your proofing printer, thus producing colour accurate predictions of the final press result. This enables you to catch colour and content issues at an early stage, when correcting them is still easy.

The Spot Color Option offers extensive support of Pantone, HKS and SWOP colours, including handling of full and half tones, as well as overprinting.

The Color Manager Option lets you create and optimise paper profiles to exactly match wide-spread industry standards, such as ISO 12647, SWOP, Sicogif and others - and the Color Verifier Option helps you in checking and documenting that you really land within the allowed tolerances. It also helps you controlling the consistency of your press — that's contract proofing at its best!

Creative agency/Corporate Marketing

Creative agencies and corporate marketing departments need to check if their ideas work in practice.

Recommended product configuration

creative agency/corporate marketing printing configuration If you work in a creative environment, you need the freedom to trial and error. How will the layout draft look when printed on press. Does the orange hue match the corporate colour? How does the picture look after having been retouched?

Using EFI Colorproof XF with an LED/laser printer will give you the answers in just a minute. With a really quick laser engine you will be able to produce 300 copies of a product flyer for next day’s exhibition – in litho colour quality. And printing the directors’s presentation for the executive board presentation will also be a minor effort.

And, if you have a need for hi-fi contract proofing, just drive an extra inkjet printer by adding a Printer Option.

Newspaper printer

Newspaper printers want three things:

Proofing on press paper
Exact content control
Check for data integrity

Recommended product configuration

newspaper printing configuration The OneBit Option will process the screened high-resolution data from your existing front-end RIP, meaning that the same OneBit files are used for printing and proofing, following an all-out R.O.O.M. concept. What you see on the proof will be in the print, including the screening structure. This gives your advertising clients the best possible impression of what their job will look like. Obviously, newspaper formats require wide format inkjet printers, of which some have excellent capabilities of proofing on newsprint paper.

That means the Printer Option M which is part of the basic configuration is free for other applications – why not for contone proofs of your newspaper inserts?

Digital photographer

A digital photographer needs:

The capability to proof and print
Conversion of image data between colour standards
Export as TIFF

Recommended product configuration

digital photographer printing configuration In Printing mode, EFI Colorproof XF with Photo Option reads your digital pictures (TIFFs and JPGs) and brings them to the printer in the largest possible colour gamut, thus keeping vivid, saturated colours. A contact sheet function allows you to get a quick overview of what you shot; a portrait set function lets you compile a collection of different sizes of a picture. In-depth control over the grey balance lets you create high-quality prints which can be sold as large format photo prints.

In Proofing mode, you obtain a realistic impression of how your images will look when being printed – an enormous help when retouching and handing over your images to the prepress stage.

Your images can be converted to virtually any colour space for which you have an ICC profile available, like sRGB, ECI-RGB and others. The export to TIFF is easy as well and enables you to exchange your data in a standardized way.