Best practices for troubleshooting print quality problems

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1 Best practices for troubleshooting print quality problems Lou Prestia Sr. Product Line Manager Giselle de la Moriniere Product Marketing Manager

2 Are you getting the most profit out of your print business? 2

3 Do these sound familiar? Jobs rejected by print buyers for color issues Having to interrupt production to return files to prepress Wasting prints for proofing color accuracy Wasted prints ( spoilage ) has a negative impact on the profitability of a digital print operation 3

4 Key to print shop profitability Wasted prints, time, clicks = wasted profits 4

5 Setting up your shop for success Less waste More capacity 5

6 Tracking spoilage is challenging Log recycling shipments Job log analysis MIS What you don t know CAN hurt your profitability! 6

7 How do I reduce spoilage to achieve maximum profitability? 7

8 Components of profitable print workflow Prepress Preflight RIP Print OK? 8

9 Complete solution for profitable print workflow Fiery Graphic Arts Package, Premium Edition 9

10 Using Fiery Graphic Arts Package, Premium Edition to increase profits 10

11 What is it? Fiery Graphic Arts Package, Premium Edition Most complete set of digital print troubleshooting tools fully integrated with a DFE Key tools: Preflight ImageViewer Postflight Custom control bar 11

12 Fiery Graphic Arts Package, Premium Edition Profitable print workflow Y N

13 Fiery ImageViewer: your key to success 13

14 What is Fiery ImageViewer? Post-RIP raster viewer Displays rasters at full resolution Zoom to pixel level Optimized for fast preview Includes tools for troubleshooting and color correction 14

15 Fiery ImageViewer demonstrations Just-in-time color correction Color clicks in B&W jobs Print artifact troubleshooting Create a softproof 15

16 How do I find it on my Fiery server? Command WorkStation à Device Center à General Info External Fiery servers Embedded/bustled Fiery servers 16

17 Just-in-time color correction 17

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19 Why not do this with profile editing? 19

20 Color clicks in BW jobs 20

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22 Print artifact troubleshooting 22

23 Print artifact troubleshooting 23

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25 Softproof

26 Softproof Y N

27 Softproof demo 27

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29 Fiery Preflight 29

30 Fiery Graphic Arts Package, Premium Edition Profitable print workflow Y N

31 What is Fiery Preflight? Preflight tools analyze a job before it is printed to check for potential errors Only Fiery Preflight knows the specific fonts and spot colors that are on the Fiery DFE 31

32 Fiery Preflight demonstrations Missing font Missing spot color Low resolution image 32

33 Missing fonts 33

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35 Missing spot colors & low-resolution images 35

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37 Fiery Preflight automation 37

38 Fiery Preflight automation 38

39 Fiery Postflight 39

40 Fiery Graphic Arts Package, Premium Edition Profitable print workflow Y N

41 What is Postflight? Creates detailed job report Identifies for each page object: Color space definition Spot color name Engine quality test page 41

42 Postflight demonstration 42

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44 Solving more complex print challenges Finding and solving transparency issues Applying a specialty color 44

45 Transparency 45

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47 PDF/X-4 settings Composite overprint: checked (default setting) Optimize RGB transparency: checked CMYK > Use embedded profile when present (converted to Lab): checked PDF/X output intent: checked RGB > Use embedded profile when present: checked Separate RGB/Lab to CMYK source: checked 47

48 Specialty colors 48

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50 Fiery Graphic Arts Package, Premium Edition Profitable print workflow Y N

51 Fiery Graphic Arts Package, Premium Edition Profitable print workflow Y N

52 Control Bar example 52

53 Verify with Fiery Color Profiler Suite 53

54 Industry statistics For digital, custom jobs, where are color corrections typically performed? 17% creative dept 34% prepress dept 12% production floor/digital front end (DFE) 11% outsourced/third party 15% at the customer 7% automated 4% don t know Client rejections for color or overall image quality issues happen on an average of 10 to 14% of digital jobs Workflow ROI study, InfoTrends

55 Review Fiery Graphic Arts Package, Premium Edition Key to profitability is to minimize spoilage Best practice: use troubleshooting tools to fix errors before you print Fiery Preflight, Fiery ImageViewer, Postflight, Control Bar The only complete troubleshooting toolset Fully integrated with the Fiery DFE 55

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57 Resources Fiery Graphic Arts Package, Premium Edition web page 57

58 Resources PODi product briefing Fiery Graphic Arts Package, Premium Edition overview Preflight and ImageViewer Postflight and Control Bar 58

59 Resources Fiery How-To Guides Create custom control bar Use prepress tools to troubleshoot file issues -All How-To Guides 59

60 Resources Related products Fiery JobFlow Fiery Hot Folders Pantone libraries 60

61 Resources Free elearning Bundle 1. FIERY-220 Creating Automated Workflows 2. FIERY-600 Graphic Arts Package, Premium Edition 3. FIERY-610 PDF Workflows 4. FIERY-810 Fiery JobFlow 61

62 Questions? 62

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