Just starting to look at this so thought I would start with a post to see if some one could give me a short cut.
Since we are moving away from looking at densities on press and looking more at the color values themselves I was wondering if we could start using a eye one proof at press. We can measure patches and spot colors. But is there a program out there that we can use the eye one with a scan a press sheet color bar.
Can we capture density with a eye one. Or apply a mathematical formula to a lab color in a excel chart to transform measurements to density. I guess first I should find out if we can take eye one data to a spreadsheet like a ICColor
You can scan the color bar and look at it in measure tool. You can save it as a text file for another program. But what I am after is a program that can give you a quick graphical look of the press sheet like a Xrite ATD.
You can poke around the measure tool and get lab values. But what program could I open the text file with. Saving and opening the text file in another program is already to slow the press has moved on.
Something that could give me a graphic of the press sheet as a whole.
Ah…you might try ColorMetrix then. ProofPass or PressRoom are likely what your asking for. I realize there’s a time lag for exporting data from MeasureTool and importing into Excel, but you could create a spreadsheet that gives you the data your looking for for basically no $$$.
Mike I have a spctro eye - those that have loads of money may not agree - but I dont think they bounce very well !!!
I have printed sheets that we use and have agreed Densities that are in the Lab range and use Xrite densitometers on the presses
It may bge a bit basic - but it works
Peter
