ProfileMaker 5
The Choice of Color Professionals
Professionals in color-critical environments worldwide have come to rely on ProfileMaker software to help them build high quality, reliable and customizable ICC profiles. These profiles connect the various steps in your color imaging workflow and put you on a direct route to accuracy and predictability. ProfileMaker 5 expands upon this tradition of excellence with new features and enhancements that deliver even more expert level controls. Now it’s even more intuitive and more efficient to build, edit and fine tune color profiles for all the devices – monitors, scanners, digital cameras, and all types of output devices – in your color imaging and reproduction workflow. New MultiColor solutions now extend far beyond RGB, CMYK and Hexachrome®!
Modular color management meets your specific needs
ProfileMaker 5 features individual modules that handle the various color imaging devices and processes in your workflow. Start small, choosing only the modules you need, with the freedom to add additional modules as your requirements change and grow.
- Monitor
calibrate and create ICC profiles for CRT, LCD and laptop displays, match
multiple monitors to a reference monitor.
- Scanner
create ICC profiles for flatbed or drum scanners. Includes IT 8 target.
- Digital Camera
create ICC profiles for digital cameras. (Digital ColorChecker SG sold separately.)
- Printer
create ICC profiles for RGB, CMYK and Hexachrome® output devices.
- MultiColor Output
create profiles for Multicolor devices featuring CMYK plus up to 6 additional channels. Includes ability to set ink priorities, minimize ink consumption and minimize metamerism for two different illuminants. Includes Photoshop® Plug-Ins for soft/hard proofing and multicolor separations.
- Editor
edit profiles or fine tune the ones you’ve created working with lightness, contrast, saturation, white point or gradation curves. Check spot color reproducibility and view gamuts in 2D or 3D.
- ColorPicker
convert spot colors (CxF or Pantone) to process color individually or as a complete library. Limit the maximum number of device channels and define the minimum ink coverage for higher process stability.
- MeasureTool
collect, analyze and average data from color measurement devices for accurate profile computation. Create your own custom test charts to achieve the most accurate output profiles. Evaluate density, dot gain, gradation curves and color for complete process control.
- DeviceLink
create fully ICC compatible device linking workflows for RGB and CMYK color spaces and build direct connections between source and destination imaging devices to handle special applications like output to output transformations. Includes a new preserve black function plus clean black and clean primary options.
- Eye-One Process Control Bundle
includes Eye-One Pro measurement device and MeasureTool for measuring control strips like the Fogra Media step wedge in a convenient scan mode to determine values and tolerances. Measures proofs and prints against the reference step wedge and generates a detailed PDF report.
Packaged solutions that match your workflow
PM5 Publish is designed specifically for prepress and publishing professionals that need optimal results from digital (laser, inkjet) and traditional (offset, flexo, gravure, etc.) printing systems. PM5 Publish provides the ability to profile monitors and scanners, as well as RGB, CMYK and Hexachrome® output devices. You can edit and customize profiles, while ensuring color quality for proofing and final print production.
PM5 Publish Plus expands the gamut of digital printers, analog presses and LFP devices through the use of multicolor technology featuring CMYK plus up to six additional colors. It includes all the functionality of PM5 Publish, plus provides accurate, predictable color from concept to final production for CMYK+N based multicolor workflows. The six additional colors used in the separations can be selected without any restriction – defined based on spot measurements, manual Lab entries or from any of the PANTONE® libraries. PM5 MultiColor plug-in for Adobe® Photoshop® completes the solution by allowing 1-click separations plus the ability to softproof and hardproof your Lab, RGB and CMYK images.
PM5 Packaging solution is tailored to meet the color management needs of the multicolor imaging workflow in the packaging market. It expands the open ICC standard to the ever increasing multicolor scenarios demanded by today’s market and leads to reliable color communication.
Now producing an ICC color managed workflow has never been easier for the packaging printer. With PM5 Packaging you’ll be able create multicolor ICC profiles and, with 1-click, automatically produce your separations and soft/hard proof directly in Photoshop. PM5 Packaging includes these new tools for your multi-color imaging workflow:
- ICC MultiColor Separations:
1-click automated MultiColor separations removes tedious manual process (Photoshop® Plug-In)
- ICC Softproofing/Hardproofing:
Supports both soft and hard proofing of multicolor images directly in Photoshop (Photoshop® Plug-In)
- NEW N-Color ICC profile generation.
Generate multicolor profiles up to ten channels with or without CMYK
- NEW Generic Output Profiler (GOP).
This patent-pending technology provides the ability to automatically rebuild a new profile when one or more spot colors change without recreating test charts, plates and cylinders – thus enabling the constant use of ICC profiles in a multicolor imaging workflow.
PM5 Packaging supports all printing technologies – Flexo, Gravure, Offset and InkJet and provides new color management tools to easily generate multicolor profi les in an ever changing spot color production environment.
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