MELVILLE, N.Y., Sept. 22, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Canon
U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital
imaging solutions, is set to debut the Océ Color Control Suite
(OCCS), a software color management toolbox designed for color
experts in all industries, especially those in graphic arts, at
GRAPH EXPO 2016, taking place September
25-28 in Orlando,
Florida.
For print service providers, color can be a vexing challenge
with many variables. The process of managing color is a multi-step,
continuous process, in which print service providers commonly
struggle to allocate the necessary time and resources. On top of
these constraints, printing environments have only increased in
complexity for delivering consistent and repeatable color across
their entire fleet of equipment, across geographically dispersed
production facilities, or to meet recent industry standards.
OCCS is a color management toolbox focused on capturing,
calibrating, characterizing and confirming color. There are
five modules included in the suite: Catch, DeviL, IMProve,
MatchPatch and spoTTuner. The suite works with any printing
device – inkjet, toner or offset providing a single point of color
management control throughout a print shop.
Océ Color Control Catch (OCCC) is the core module containing a
multitude of tools for color measurement, quality control,
certification, statistical analysis, ICC profiling, calibration and
profile optimization. The module helps customers to achieve the
best quality attainable by capturing and confirming print
conditions across different printers, across different papers or
even different print sites. By capturing color information of the
desired target, it is easy to ensure the printer is in its 'color
ready neutral state' and, over time, all the color information
captured provides historical color trending statistics. Optimizing
and maintaining consistent and repeatable color output, within
defined tolerances, is a critical process of printing which helps
communicate color accuracy and reduce waste.
A unique advantage of OCCC for Canon production inkjet customers
is its ability to automate color matching in multi-press
installs. It automatically determines optimal ink limit
settings independent of operator skills and matches quality levels
of more than one printer site thus ensuring consistency of the
printed piece throughout the enterprise. Using the
Color Control ink limit functionality helps optimize ink usage on
inkjet production engines while still producing customer acceptable
output quality.
Océ Color Control DeviL provides exquisite accuracy for color
professionals. It offers a highly customizable yet comprehensive
set of tools for generating ICC profiles to use wherever needed in
the workflow or at printer level. Users can dive deep into profile
creation and modification to achieve professional quality results.
OCCS DeviL also provides for the creation and editing of ICC device
link profiles achieving higher precision in color space
transformations, otherwise only found in proprietary solutions.
Océ Color Control Suite, IMProve, focuses on auto intelligent
optimization and processing of measurement data. In many
situations, measurement data is not perfect and can result in
inferior profiles. This may be caused by problems in printing,
inhomogeneity or just errors in reading the patches. IMProve is a
collection of various tools offering optimization of measurement
data and correction for optical brighteners to G7 measurement data
correction. The quality of ICC profiles is only as good as
the data. Analyzing and optimizing color data results in a better
profile quality and higher reliability of the production
process.
Océ Color Control Suite, MatchPatch, modifies an existing
printing profile so that selected target colors, spot colors for
example, can be reproduced very consistently and accurately. These
spot colors might be company logos, product colors or the fields of
the media wedge. Finally, the Color Control Suite spoTTuner helps
users optimally transcribe their spot colors into process colors;
allowing users to determine for the conversion which visual color
property - hue, saturation/chroma or brightness - is most important
for the reproduction. SpoTTuner allows you to enter a pantone
number and see if your printer, paper and ink profile can achieve
that color gamut.
"The Océ Color Control Suite allows for more consistency in
color output while helping save time and money in reduced setup,
proofing cycles, print runs, which can lead to increases in
acceptance rates of jobs, whether they're first-run or reprints,"
said Toyotsugu Kuwamura, executive vice president and general
manager, Business Imaging Solutions Group, Canon U.S.A., Inc. "We are very excited about the
Océ Color Control Suite's offerings. This robust and versatile
color management toolbox is a testament to our customer loyalty,
and continued commitment to improving the workflow processes and
engine utilization rates within the graphic arts industry as best
we
can."
About Canon U.S.A.,
Inc.
Canon U.S.A., Inc., is
a leading provider of consumer, business-to-business, and
industrial digital imaging solutions to the United States and to Latin America and the Caribbean (excluding Mexico) markets. With approximately
$31 billion in global revenue, its
parent company, Canon Inc. (NYSE:CAJ), ranks third overall in U.S.
patents granted in 2015† and is one of Fortune
Magazine's World's Most Admired Companies in 2016. Canon
U.S.A. is committed to the highest
level of customer satisfaction and loyalty, providing 100 percent
U.S.-based consumer service and support for all of the products it
distributes. Canon U.S.A. is
dedicated to its Kyosei philosophy of social and
environmental responsibility. In 2014, the Canon Americas
Headquarters secured LEED® Gold certification, a recognition for
the design, construction, operations and maintenance of
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registered trademark of Océ-Technologies B.V. in the United States and elsewhere. All other
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