Create a New Calibration Data Record (Process Calibration)

1.Click "Process Calibration".

2.Select the calibration group you want and open it.

3.Click the "New" button.

•"Name": Name of the new calibration data record

•"Color" Section This is where you define all the colors for which this calibration data record will have a calibration curve.

·"Process Color(s)": This is where you select a single color or the colors of CMYK that you want.

"Choose Colors..." (at the end of the "Colors" list box): This is where you select the colors for calibration of a multicolor printing process.

"Use the Data Record also for Spotcolors": When this option is set, the calibration curve of the selected color is also available for calibration of any spot colors that may be in a job.

·"Spot color": You can create a calibration curve separately for each spot color. If you want, you can take the name of the color from a color table.

·"Any Spotcolor": You can create a calibration curve that is applicable for all spot colors in the job.

•"Screening" group: Screen-specific setup.

•"Medium": When you select your device for the calibration group, you also set which media is available for selection. These media display in this box.

•"Process Curve Set": Select a process curve set that will be used together with the measured data to create the calibration curves.

See Process curve / Process curve set in the Terms Relating to Dot Gain . See also "Administration > Process Curve Sets".

•"Print Parameters": Print parameters describe the properties of a printing process after the plate is created. See the "Administration > Print Parameters".

•"Calibration Data Record Properties":

·"One Calibration Curve for all Colors": You already set the colors that you want to cali­brate in "Color". This option now lets you select whether the same calibration curve will be used for each of these colors or whether each color will have its own calibration curve.

"Measured Color(s)": This is where you define averaging for a calibration curve that you wish to use for all the colors. You select a combination of process colors. The data for the selected colors are averaged. The calibration curve is then computed from the mean data and the process curve set.

Note: We recommend that you create a separate calibration curve for every color (see below section Overview of Averaging Data Curves).

·"Number of Measurement Curves per Color": You can average as many as three data curves for every color.

Example: You would like to calculate only one calibration curve for all the colors using "CMY" with two curves per color. This gives you one data curve that was averaged using six data curves.

See also Overview of Averaging Data Curves.

·"Front/Back": In this list box, you can set whether the calibration data record will be used on the front and back, only on the front or only on the back.

·"Test chart": See also "Administration > Testforms" (Expert Mode Only) .

4.Click "OK". A new calibration data record is created.

All the main parameters that you set when creating a calibration data record display as a table in the open calibration group for that data record ("Colors", "Screen System", etc.).