Is Your RIP Working Hard Enough?

Elli Cloots Senior Product Marketing Manager – Fiery Wide Format

John Nate Educational Architect and Trainer – Fiery Wide Format

Wide Format Series

Working smarter

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• Tips & techniques – For new and longtime Fiery

XF users

• 4 areas – Automation – Usability – Color – Integration

After this webinar, you will be able to…

• Simplify your system by using Presets and Workspaces

• Utilize more of your available color by using the Dynamic Rendering Intent

• Improve process monitoring with the Dynamic Wedge™

• Control user access using Hotfolders and the Fiery® Unidriver

• Understand the value of IP connectivity

Let’s take a poll first...

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Four areas to simplify your life:

• Automation

• Usability

• Color

• Integration

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Automation

Making your RIP do its own work

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Levels of automation and control

6 Hotfolders

Full Client + Presets

Unidriver

Client + Workspaces + Presets

Presets

Hotfolders

• Gives untrained users access to your RIP

• Minimizes unnecessary staff interaction

• Local or remote folder

• No support for mapped drives

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Hotfolders

Select folder

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Deactivate input side of

workflow

The Unidriver

• Gives staff access to a limited set of RIP features

• Usability between Hotfolders and full Fiery Client

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Unidriver

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Access to specific workflows and often used options

Unidriver

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Also access to certain Presets

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Is Your RIP Working Hard Enough?

Questions? Please use the Q & A Window

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Is Your RIP Working Hard Enough?

Poll results…

Usability

Using Presets and Workspaces

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Presets

Quick access to commonly used settings

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Building Presets

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Watch for the Preset marker and click on it to access Preset options

Building Presets

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After selecting desired settings, select “Save as Preset”

Name and save your Preset

Selected Presets are displayed in the pane title bars

Workspaces

Customizing the interface for efficiency and error prevention

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Building Workspaces

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Available in Job Explorer and System Manager

Building Workspaces

20 Select Workspace Manager…

Building Workspaces

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1) Select “New” 2) Give your

Workspace a name

3) Select your options

4) Select “Apply”

Using Workspaces

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User can select desired Workspace

Using Workspaces

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Administrator can select which Workspaces each user has access to

Using Workspaces

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Full Tony

Color

Minimizing trial-and-error

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Calibration, profiling, and color optimization

• For additional information:

– Past World of Fiery Webinars (Google: wide format world of fiery)

• Color Management Fundamentals

• Linearization in Fiery proServer and Fiery XF

• Profiling and Optimization in Fiery proServer and Fiery XF

– Help.efi.com

• Printer Linearization

• Advanced Linearization Guide

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Good linearization

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Full ink usage and full device gamut

Poor linearization

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Ink reduction but loss of gamut

Dynamic Rendering Intent

• Preserves maximum image gamut while minimizing the danger of gamut clipping

• Automatically selects between 2 rendering intents:

– Perceptual

– Relative colorimetric (without BPC)

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Rendering intent

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Larger Gamut

Smaller Gamut

In-Gamut Colors

Out-Of-Gamut Colors

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2

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Color Management Fundamentals

Several colors out-of-gamut

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2

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4 5 6

Perceptual – correct choice

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1

2

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4 5 6

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2

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Colorimetric – incorrect choice

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1

2

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4 5 6

All colors in-gamut

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1

2

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Colorimetric – correct choice

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1

2

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Perceptual – incorrect choice

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1

2

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Dynamic rendering intent

Rendering intent automatically selected based upon gamut of image compared to media gamut

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The Dynamic Wedge™

Exclusive to Fiery proServer and Fiery XF

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The Dynamic Wedge

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Standard Wedge

Dynamic Wedge

• Process Colors

• Spot Colors

• Process and Spot Colors

Dynamic Wedge

The Dynamic Wedge™

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Integration

Improving device communication

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IP Printing for EFI Printers

What is it and why do I need it?

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IP printing for (some) EFI® printers

• Enables: – Fiery

® Navigator™

– MIS integration

– Digital StoreFront ®

integration

– Future benefits…

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• Eliminates manual file import – Reduced error

• Use of Workspaces – Reduced operator workload

• Standardize repetitive tasks – Consistent results

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IP printing for EFI® printers

• Optimize printer workload

• Communicate real-time job status

• Track job consumption data

– Ink, media usage, printing time

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IP printing for EFI® printers

IP printing for EFI printers

Printer

VUTEk GS-Series (GS2000 or 3250) VUTEk LX3 Pro series VUTEk H2000 Pro VUTEk HS Series (100, 125 and HSr Pro) VUTEk QS2 Pro and VUTEk QS3 Pro

Wide Format H1625 series Wide Format R3225

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IP printing status

• The job is being transferred from Fiery to the printer station Submitting

• Job is on the VUTEk print station and starts to build preview Submitted

• A full job preview can be viewed at the printer station and waiting in the print queue Waiting

• Job is being printed at this very moment Printing

• Printing is finished Printed

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Fiery Integration

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Automate job submission & basic production

Optimize with cost and production status tracking

Advanced production automation

Fiery Navigator®

Cloud-based system and job data analysis

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Fiery Navigator & wide format printers

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New icon in Fiery XF Client will launch Fiery Navigator

Fiery Navigator & wide format printers

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Monitor device status and statistics from any supported web browser

Fiery Wide Format Support resources

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EFI Smart Support knowledge base http://www.efi.com/support-and-downloads/kbarticle/

Fiery XF Documentation http://help.efi.com/fieryxf/

We learned…

• Use IP connectivity to enhance EFI printer connectivity

• Use Presets and Workspaces to simplify your system

• The Dynamic Rendering Intent automatically uses available gamut while preventing image banding

• The Dynamic Wedge allows you to monitor spot color accuracy as well as colors actually in the image

• Use Hotfolders and the Unidriver to control user access

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Session resources

• X-Rite’s Complete Guide to Color Management

• help.efi.com/fieryxf

• IP Printing

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Recorded World of Fiery sessions

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• Don’t forget the existing Wide Format sessions - view here

Additional World of Fiery sessions

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• March 8 - Color Process Control and Verification in Fiery proServer and Fiery XF

• May 3 - Is Your RIP Working Hard Enough?

• September 13 - Getting Your Gray Balance in Check with G7

• EFI webinar calendar

• Have your say on the next sessions

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Questions?

Is Your RIP Working Hard Enough?

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Thank you!

Is Your RIP Working Hard Enough?