Color Replacement
Swatchbook
The Swatchbook tool lets you create lists of colors consisting of a name and a Lab value for the color. This swatches in the list can then be used in other program modules of Ergosoft, such as color replacement. Since the colors are stored in the ...
Printing White Ink or Finish
For this article, we will use white printing as the primary example, but all the steps also apply to printing similar special fluids such as primer, varnish, etc. Simply adapt the Printing Ink Assignment to reflect the proper type of fluid. General ...
Spot Colors / Named Colors
Spot Color or Named Color printing uses color names in image files to identify the color for color replacement. So for example, you may use a graphic design program such as Adobe Illustrator to specify a spot color name «Spot_Red1» for one of the ...
Pixel Color Replacement
Probably the method most people think about first when thinking about color replacement. Pixel color replacement uses pixel color values to identify and replace color in an image either by selecting it from the image itself, or by specifying a color ...
Extra Channels
Allows you to map channels in the image file to output channels and set different parameters for how the channels should be treated for output. This can be used to e.g. map a spot color channel in your image file directly to a special ink cartridge ...
Pure Colors
One of the clever little tools ErgoSoft RIP users have at their disposal to exert more control over the colors they are printing. Pure Colors lets you tell the RIP that certain colors should only be printed using their respective ink. So for example ...
Color Replacement Introduction
Color Replacement is used a variety of different applications in Digital printing. ErgoSoft RIPs offer several different ways to replace colors in your digital printing files for different applications and filetype. Be it pixel replacement in your ...