Kothari Print Pro - Graphic Arts edition.
All Kothari Print Pro editions share the same technology platform. Based on the end-use requirements each of these edition offer different features relevant to the application.
Introduction.
Kothari Print Pro - Graphic Arts (GA) edition, is an incredibly powerful tool for handling Graphic Arts workflows beyond CMYK involving extended colors like Orange, Blue, Red, Green etc., as process colors to expand the color gamut. Innovative use of light inks to increase smoothness of prints along with gray balancing tools to produce perfect grays with multi-color ink-sets.
The software is capable of handling workflows needing application of white ink as well. The software exceeds expectations in print quality with its smooth color gradations and details with color accuracy. The gallery of prints below is testimony of this fact.
This edition of software finds use in many application areas like Wide/ Large format printing, Ceramic printing, Glass printing, Photo / Fine-Art printing etc.
The software is capable of handling workflows needing application of white ink as well. The software exceeds expectations in print quality with its smooth color gradations and details with color accuracy. The gallery of prints below is testimony of this fact.
This edition of software finds use in many application areas like Wide/ Large format printing, Ceramic printing, Glass printing, Photo / Fine-Art printing etc.
Highlights.
- Color Control.
- Color managed workflow. Open images in any color space (RGB, CMYK, Lab) for printing. Embedded color profiles in images are read and recognized for proper interpretation of the intent of the designer.
- Color tools like Color Book, Direct Color Editing (DCE) and Direct Channel Firing (DCF) for managing Spot colors in the images.
- Color profiling tools. With easy to use wizard based interface, these tools are best in the class, allowing for ink linearization, ink restriction/ limit and color profiling. They are specially designed to work with extended primaries (spot colors), besides CMYK in a N-color ink configuration. Working in the ink space with full color gamut spawned by the inks used, the software can also use fluorescent inks as process primaries for gamut enhancement to the maximum extent. The tool provides sophisticated method to blend light and dark colors to achieve maximum smoothness in the prints without loosing the color gamut.
- Create profiles for printer with upto 12 colors.
- UCR/GCR control with CMYK and Spot color primaries.
- Support for Auto/ Manual gray balancing of printer profile.
- Generate profiles for Monitor and Scanner in addition to printers.
- White Ink handling. (Applicable only for scenarios requiring to print with white ink)
- White underbase generation. Automatic generation of white underbase based on the media color type, resulting in optimized usage of white ink based on media color without compromising on color gamut. The software recognizes and use the transparency information in the images during the underbase generation.
- White highlight.
- Underbase choke.
- Ink cost calculator. Compute the print cost for each print based on the ink consumption. This allows you to know your cost of printing before you commit for an order.
- Job tracking and accounting. Track usage of the printer with respect to the jobs printed, their print settings, number of copies and ink consumed. MIS can be generated for Job accounting purposes. Multiple printers can be tracked and programmed for automatic reporting in combination with our KoJac.
- XML based, barcode controlled workflow for Job automation. Designed to bring efficiency at the shop floor and reduce chances of errors in production, this is a must have tool no matter what your size of business is. If you are accepting orders through the web. then you can automate your production process by directly generating XML tickets and placing them in the queue and tagging the media to be printed with corresponding barcodes. Alternatively, if you don't use the web then also, you can generate XML tickets using our Job panel for all the jobs. This panel is also capable of pulling data from a database. The RIP software takes instruction from the XML ticket and knows from there how to process the incoming Job. Also, the moving XML Job ticket in your network allows your IT systems to keep track of the progress made on a particular Job as it moves through various stages of its life cycle - from order point to printing until shipment. As a business owner, it helps you plan your production and supervision more efficiently, reducing chances of mistakes. This frees you from production blues and let you focus on your task of managing your business!
- Image handling. Support most of the known Image file formats including native Photoshop format with Channels. The software also reads, interprets and uses transparency in the images.
- Layout.
- Nesting. Allows the user to use the print area to quickly assemble multiple images and nest them for printing. These nested images could be in different color space. The nesting also results in optimizing space to save media wastage.
- Flexible image composing. In the same print area, you can place multiple images with transparent background to compose. It treats every image as a layer. Each layer can be in different color space (RGB, CMYK, Lab, multichannel etc.). Consider a large print with few small design elements. Creating a large high resolution image for such a print with each design element placed at its location could result in huge image files and take a lot of time, whereas doing this placement composing in Kothari Print Pro is simple and easy task that doesn't require much time or memory space.
- Output Quality.
- Bi-cubic expansion of images for excellent details and resolution enhancement.
- Advanced dithering with variable dot control for exceptional smoothness and print quality.
- Reliability and ease of use.
- Advanced Memory management for handling almost unlimited size of image data without significant impact on the performance.
- No limit on the RIP output size.
- Multi-threaded application with exceptional ripping speed.
- Stable platform that rarely crashes, allowing you to focus on your Job than worrying for the next event !
- Intuitive user interface.
- Hide print settings complexities behind the user defined definitions as print environments. These can be shared among various print stations using printer of same type and recalled easily from a drop down list.
- Installation of new print modes and taking backup of existing print modes is easy. This allows to keep backup of various customization done for printing, in due course of time.
- Handle more than one printer with the same software (Subject to limitations imposed by the processing capabilities of the PC).
- Port Manager. Define ports and associate them with the name of the Printer as identified on the shop floor for easy recall.
- Print Queue Manager. Load, RIP, Print and Manage Jobs in the same queue going to various printers. Job priorities can be changed by simply moving them up and down in the list. Store RIPPED jobs on the disk for future recall.
- One pass printing is supported with multiple ink layers (more than one) printed in the same pass based on the order of printing. These layers can be of different resolution and head nozzles are utilized accordingly to optimize the print speeds. This feature is available only for printers, where Print Pro's custom drivers can control the printhead nozzles directly.
Please see our Technology page to learn more about these features.
Technical Specification.
- Requires a PC based on Intel core i3 running at 2.3 GHz or better processor. RAM 4GB or more.
- Operating system: Microsoft windows 7 or later.
- Hard Disk: Hard drive requirement varies based on your usage requirement. We recommend 500 GB or more fast SATA/ SSD (SSD preferred), with atleast 100GB of free space.
- Monitor: 24 bit color or better, with minimum resolution of 1366x768 pixels (recommended 1920x1080 pixels).
- One USB port for software dongle.
Ceramic and Transparent Glass printing.
Ceramic Tile printed with inorganic ceramic pigment inks. Inkset used is Cyan, Yellow, Black, Red and Green. Images were printed using binary drop of 25 pl @ resolution of 600x1200 dpi.
Transparent Glass tiles printed with inorganic pigment inks including TiO2. Inkset used Cyan, Yellow, Black, Red, Green and White. Images were printed using binary drop of 25 pl @ resolution of 600x1200 dpi.
White ink separation generated automatically. The print looks same from both sides of the glass.
Photo Printing.
All the Photos above were printed on a HP DesignJet Z6200 inkjet printer. Inkset used was CMYK,Lm,Lk,Red. Resolution used for printing was 1200 x 1200 dpi. Printing was done using variable dot sizes in 2-bit mode. Media used in these prints is Original HP Premium Photo Satin paper.
All images presented here were adjusted for their levels, as they were shot in a low and uniform (to the extent possible) illumination environment (illuminated by indirect sunlight) to avoid any glare from the surface of the articles. In some cases, particularly Gray, the effect of glare and shadows is still visible. Despite this, we have tried to reproduce images here as close as possible to the original printed article. All said and done, the original prints are still better in comparison to these photographs.
Canon 5D Mark III digital camera was used to capture these print shots. The copyright of original images belong to their respective owners.
Canon 5D Mark III digital camera was used to capture these print shots. The copyright of original images belong to their respective owners.