PRINT PRO V 3.0

With its simplified workflow, Print Pro v3.0 makes large/grand format Signage and Digital textile printing simpler than before. Its simplified methods of device calibration along with easy to operate and use color correction tools coupled with necessary visualization at every step of operation makes it all very simple.

You can use the same tool for proofing your multi-channel images on your digital printer. The software composes the multi-channel image (can also apply different raster to each channel) and then converts it into the format understood by your printer. All done on the fly while printing.

Kothari Print Pro v 3.0 with its features like seamless step and repeat for textile printing, Postscript level 3.0 support, simultaneous RIP and Print, RIP once and Print many, advanced dither for smooth rendering of images on the printer and capacity to drive multiple printers simultaneously becomes a necessary tool for a digital textile printer or a digital signage printer.

It supports bi-cubic interpolation when enlarging the images, while outputting to the printer to ensure best quality output.

Large array of color correction filters eliminates the need of specialized software.

Read on to know more about Kothari Print Pro v 3.0....

1. Digital textile printing.

2. Large/Grand format signage printing.

3. Large/Grand format screen/film making for conventional printing purposes (screen/offset both), including.

   1. Textile printing houses.

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

   3. Screen making for Ceramic printing.

   4. Wallpaper industry

1. Enjoy high production throughput and increased reliability.

2. Color profiling software at no extra cost.

3. No more you have to struggle to get the colors right. With color profiling software get the color tones right for your printing setup.

4. User-friendly interface.

5. Requires least attention and vigilance at the time of printing.

6. Print virtually any size at any resolution.

7. Page layout capabilities.

8. Drive more than 1 printer with your software.

9. Add support for new devices without going for a software upgrade.

10. Do digital textile printing with the same software.

11. Step n Repeat for textile and wallpaper printing.

12. Ability to drive efficiently a large number of wide format printers from Encad, Epson, DGI, HP, Matan, Mutoh, Mimaki and Roland. Driver support for more than 150 printers.

13. Driver support for Gretag Macbeth ‘Spectrolino’ and ‘Eye-One Pro’ spectrophotometer.

14. Create films/screen for the purpose of conventional printing. Allows you to create high quality stochastic as well as regular halftone screens. Over 33 different regular halftone shapes supported.

15. Port manager with support for FireWire*, USB, TCP/IP, Parallel and serial port support.

16. The full feature set includes the ability to RIP, Convert for visual editing, place, view, softproof or preflight (by the help of preview facility) PS level, DCS 2.0, EPS or PDF 1.4 files.

Image Handling

This powerful PS level 3 RIP software supports the most of image file formats such as BMP, PCX, GIF, PNG, JPG, TGA and recognizes multi-channel file formats like Tiff, DCS 2.0 and Adobe Photoshop’s PSD, PS level 3.0 and PDF v 1.4.

TWAIN support for image capture through twain compatible scanners and digital cameras.

Input files can be of almost unlimited size.

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

Color manages the Images. For more details see Color Management section.

Opened Images are assigned their own embedded profiles, if present. For more details see Color Management section.

Save Images as BMP, PCX, GIF, PNG, JPG, TGA, Tiff or Adobe Photoshop’s PSD format.

Image Adjustment

Versatile and easy-to-use Image adjustments and color correction tools practically eliminates the need to use any specialized photo editing software.

Image resizing, rotation at any angle or shearing operations supported.

Cropping tool.

Color correction filters with interactive preview. These include –

• Levels

• Auto Levels

• Auto Contrast

• Auto Color

• Color Balance

• Brightness/Contrast

• Hue/Saturation

• Desaturate

• Selective Color

• Channel Mixer

• Invert

• Equalize

• Threshold

• Posterize

• Curves

Page Layout/Nesting

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

All files can be placed in the layout program regardless of its format.

Nesting not only allows you to arrange images for the purpose of media saving but you can layout your designs too.

Thanks to the support for transparency in images.

Support for manual as well as automatic nesting.

Images on the nested page can have their own color profile and colorspace (like CMYK, RGB, Lab, Multi-channel etc.).

If you are creating a Nested page for producing films/screens, You can apply different screening options to each job on the page.

Job of laying out jobs on a page made more simple and accurate by rulers and guidelines.

Rotate Images at 90, 180, 270 degree or mirror the jobs on the page.

Printing

Supports up-to 12 color channel printers.

Blow up your tiny images to any size and print with increased accuracy.

Bi-cubic Interpolation support for high quality output.

Print Images at unlimited resolution with virtually unlimited size.

Step n Repeat with user-defined drop – essential for Textile printing.

Print multiple ups/copies of an image on a single page.

Save the prints as Tiff, TGA or RTL format files.

Avoid RIPPING the job again that has been printed before by saving it as ready to print Kprn format file.

Print the selected area of the image or page layout.

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.

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

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

Color Management

ICC based color workflow.Integrated CMM. Print pro comes shipped with its own CMM.

Color manage your workflow from input to output with print pro v2.0. Every job inside the software is assigned a color profile depending upon its colorspace. These jobs are displayed on the monitor using the monitor profile. For printing these jobs respective printer profile is used. LA*B* is used as connection space between devices and images.

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 when printing through Windows printer driver.

Profile your printer, Monitor or scanner using the software.

Printer profiling.

Support 3-12 color profile generation.

Create your own custom RGB, CMYK, CMYKLcLm, CMYKRGB, CMYKOB, CMYKOG, CMYKLcLmLkB etc… profiles with no extra software to buy.

You no longer have to generate Orange/Blue/Green/Red /any other color as the combination of CMYK while ripping. Generate true profiles for them.

Device linearization support for process as well as spot colors.

Determine Ink limits for new media and ink combination.

Monitor calibration.

Calibrating your monitor is a simple matter of following the instructions of the profiling software.

You can simulate a variety of illuminants on your monitor for image proofing purposes.

Scanner calibration.

Spectrophotometer Support

Supports Gretag Macbeth Spectrolino and Eye One Pro.

Adding support for new spectrophotometer does not need a software upgrade. It can be done by downloading the additional files from the support section of the company’s web site, when ever such update is available.

Screening Support

Extended support for variable dot printing.

Sophisticated dithering for highly smooth image output.

Halftoning in different shape, size and angle.

High precision screens with accurate angles and rulings.

33 different built in halftone shapes.

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

Grayscale file based halftone support at different angle and ruling.

Stochastic screening.

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

Film/Screen Production

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

Produce Screens/Films on your large format printer.

Seamless halftoning at repeat joints.

Emulsion down and Film inversion support.

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

Irregular Dubbing.

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

Printer Support

Custom driver support for a large number of large/grand format printers. You get custom drivers for most of large/grand format printers from Encad, Epson, DGI, HP, Matan, Mutoh, Mimaki and Roland. Over 150 printer models in all (large/grand format as well as desktop).

Printing to File. File format supported are Tiff, TGA, RTL.

Printing through windows driver/ to windows printer.

Printer Queue

Drive unlimited printers * from the single application.

Simultaneous RIP and print.

RIP once Print many.

Add all jobs for printing with one click.

Job order changing, deleting, holding as per your priority.

*User defined number - Limited only by the practical throughput of the computer system and speed of the printer/s connected.

Port Manager

Port manager with support for FireWire*, USB, TCP/IP, Parallel and serial port support.

Printing through windows printer queue both on the local machine or networked printer queue.

*At present FireWire support available only for Mimaki Tx2-1600 model.

Other Essentials

Ink consumption for billing purposes of signage or textile prints.

Plug and play application architecture allows the addition of a new Spectrophotometer, or a new printer, or support for a new printer port by simply installing the updates. Simplifying the support for new devices and at the same time protecting your investments.

User friendly Interface.

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

Textile Printing

For textile printers, it drastically reduces the time and labor in 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.

Proofing

Not only for CMYK images but for spot color images too.

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.

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.
   RAM : 128 MB or more. (256 MB Recommended).

3. Hard disk: Size depending upon the usage requirement (Print Pro v 3.0 uses hard disk as primary scratch space for storing image files and uses RAM only for caching). Print Pro v 3.0 needs 128MB for installation.

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

5. Printer: Print Pro can interface with any printer supported by it from the list of custom printer drivers it offers or any other printer offering MS Windows compatible driver