PRINT PRO V 1.0

Screen Making and proofing software that offers you stochastic screening along with 33 different AM halftones. Use it to extend the functionality of your existing image-setter RIPS too.

Take a tour to know what makes the Print Pro v1.0 an essential tool for your screen making process.

• Introduction.

• Application Areas.

• Benefits.

• Product Features.

• Other Features.

• Technical Specifications.

• Demo.

Kothari Print-Pro v 1.0 from Kothari Info-Tech Ltd. is Ripping software, designed to bring large format screen making to your desktop. Its screening modules bring the professional engraving solution closer into the hands of the designer.

This powerful software package created especially for the needs of the screen printers and can be used for signboard printing* for the entry-level user.

Kothari Print Pro v1.0 provides you with solutions that were traditionally possible only with high-end Postscript printers and RIPS. It gets closer to the designer by understanding the design formats directly and ripping them to any Windows compatible printers and Image setters. Together with the built in support for ICC based color workflow and bi-cubic interpolation, It addresses the concern of both the offset and screen-printing as far as the production of films/screens is concerned. It offers high quality screening along with step and repeat and irregular dubbing at the joints.

Any form of large format screen making and printing process including,

1. Textile printing houses.

2. Commercial print production environments for making films/service bureau.

3. Screen making for Ceramic printing.

4. Wallpaper industry.

5. Large format signboard printing*.

* This version of the software works only with those printers that offer windows compatible drivers.

1. Print Images at unlimited resolution with virtually unlimited size.

2. Creating color proofs with halftones applied at user defined angles and frequencies is as easy as a matter of click of a button.

3. For textile printers, it drastically reduces the time and labor in step and repeat and joint making.

4. Nesting – a very powerful feature for saving expensive media by placing multiple jobs on the same page. You can apply different screening options to each job on the page.

5. Free Tool to generate stochastic screen. Essential feature for HiFi color printing.

6. User friendly Interface.

7. Extend the functionality of your image setter RIPS at fraction of the cost.

8. No special hardware needed. Works on any MS Windows compatible PC.

9. Works very well with the most popular file formats like Adobe Photoshop’s PSD, Tiff, PS*, DCS* 2.0, EPS* and PDF*.

* Feature available only in version with Postscript support.

Auto Tiling

Automatically breaks up large jobs into multiple pages with user specified overlapping on page boundaries to make task of stitching these pages simpler.

Export output as Tiff, TGA or RTL.

This feature allows saving of the prints as Tiff, TGA or RTL format files.

ICC based color workflow

Its integrated color management system offers monitor calibration, uses embedded ICC profiles in the image files or assigns default profiles to RGB and CMYK images (if no embedded profile is present). It outputs the image data to the printer in sRGB color space. Thus helping you achieve high quality color output on your favorite printer.

Irregular dubbing

Nesting

Support for laying out multiple small jobs on a single page – A media saving feature.

Proofing <Enlarged portion of an image proof>

Simulates the actual print by putting raster in different screens and printing the combined result. This helps in detecting the errors early in pre-press stages, and cuts down the costs involved in traditional/sampling process.

Step and repeat

Whether it is straight repeat or cross repeat or any other repeat, Print Pro handles them with great ease. All you need to do is to specify what repeat setting to follow for this image.

Visual Ripping

Preview what goes on every page before it is sent to the printer.

1. Recognizes BMP, PCX, GIF, PNG,JPG, TGA ,multi-channel file formats like Tiff and Adobe PhotoShop’s PSD, PS*, DCS* 2.0, EPS* and PDF*.

2. Handles large size images with ease by the help of Memory management system that uses Hard disk as scratch space.

3. Reads and uses embedded profiles if any, inside the image file.

4. Bi-cubic Interpolation support for high quality output.

5. Emulsion down and Film inversion support.

6. Halftoning in different shape, size and angle.

7. High precision screens with accurate angles and rulings

8. 33 different built in halftone shapes.

9. Special honeycomb screens for rotary screens (A technology for textile printing)

10. Stochastic screening.

11. Combining and outputting multiple channels (screened differently) on a single color output page.

12. Grayscale file based halftone support at different angle and ruling.

13. Seamless halftoning at repeat joints.

14. Allows the printing of individual pre-separated channels as well as the composite image.

15. Allows transfer curve based gain compensation for each screen/film.

16. Ink coverage for each screen/film to allow cost estimation.

* Feature available only in version with Postscript support.

1. Requires a PC based on Intel Pentium or better processor.

2. Operating system: Microsoft Windows 98 or later, Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 or later.

3. RAM : 64 MB or more.

4. Hard disk: Size depending upon the usage requirement (Print Pro v 1.0 uses hard disk as primary scratch space for storing image files and uses RAM only for caching). Print Pro v 1.0 needs 25 MB for installation.

5. Monitor: SVGA or better with resolution of 800x600 pixels or better, 256 or more color support needed.

6. Printer: Print Pro can interface with any printer offering MS Windows compatible driver.