"Colors" Group

The colors of the job are displayed here and, if necessary, you can edit the color settings for the production of the job.

In jobs that contain product parts, the color settings of the master product also affect the product parts by default, i.e. if a master product is selected and edited, the changes also affect the associated product parts.

If you change the color settings for a selected product part, a separate set of job settings is created for the product part in question, i.e. these changes only affect the product part in question.

If individual changes have been made to product parts in this way, the product part changes are displayed in red when the master product is edited.

Top Part

You can define preferences for handling colors in the job in the top part of the window.

Assignment of job colors to mark colors

This is where you set whether the colors that are in the PDF files of the print job or that are defined in this section will be used for the color marks and, if so, how they will be used. These colors are called "job colors".

Automatically per Surface

The job colors are assigned automatically to the color marks for each surface if you enable this option. It is no longer possible to set up the mark colors manually. These settings are lost if mark colors were already defined manually (see "User-defined" option). Through this automatic setting, the system tries to avoid gaps in the color control bars.

Note: We recommend that you enable this option (default).

User-defined

Enable this option if you wish to assign colors individually to the color marks. This setting lets you assign all the job colors to the marks placeholders of the HEIDELBERG color control bars. You can assign the colors as follows:

Global

Manual assignment of the colors to the mark colors impacts all the marks of the job.

in layout

Manual assignment of the colors to the mark colors impacts only the marks that are in the imported layout. Manual assignment has no impact on these marks if color marks not defined in the layout are in the job.

Allow spot colors for BCMY for PrinectRenderer workflow

Prerequisite: This function only affects job processing with the Prinect Integration Manager (with Prinect prepress including Prinect Renderer), but not the PPF import workflow with a third-party prepress system. In addition, this option is only intended for the "Optimized Color Workflow" with fixed assignment of the job colors to the printing colors and can only be activated for this.

Note: If you are using a workflow with a third-party prepress system (PPF import workflow), you can find more information about assigning spot colors and defining the color sequence here: See "Color marks assignment" subtab.

When this option is enabled, it is possible to assign spot colors to the "BCMY" process color code. By doing this, you can avoid gaps in the color control bar.

If a job does not have all of the CMYK process colors but their spot colors instead or even just spot colors, issues can occur in the "Optimized Color Workflow" when assigning the job colors to the mark colors because normally the process colors are expected in the order "CMYK". When you enable this option, the spot colors are assigned to the "BCMY" marks placeholders, making correct assignment possible.

"Target" list boxes

This is where you set the target color space for job processing. Depending on the colors that are in the input documents, colors can be mapped to the target color space. A difference is made between the "Process" target and the "Output" target.

​•​Destination"Process" affects processing in Prinect Production.

​•​Destination"Output" affects the print color space (press, proofer, etc.).

"Process" target

​•​CMYK..., else L*a*b*

CMYK is set as the process color space if objects defined in CMYK are found in the input data. L*a*b* is set as the process color space if there are no CMYK objects.

​•​L*a*b*, else CMYK

L*a*b* is set as the process color space if objects defined in L*a*b* are found in the input data. CMYK is set as the process color space if there are no L*a*b* objects.

​•​CMYK..., else error

CMYK is set as the process color space if objects defined in CMYK are found in the input data. An error message is issued and processing canceled if there are no CMYK objects.

​•​L*a*b*, else error

L*a*b* is set as the process color space if objects defined in L*a*b* are found in the input data. An error message is issued and processing canceled if there are no L*a*b* objects.

"Output" target

​•​CMYK..., else L*a*b*

CMYK is set as the target color space if objects defined in CMYK are found in the input data. L*a*b* is set as the target color space if there are no CMYK objects.

​•​L*a*b*, else CMYK

L*a*b* is set as the target color space if objects defined in L*a*b* are found in the input data. CMYK is set as the target color space if there are no L*a*b* objects.

​•​CMYK..., else error

CMYK is set as the target color space if objects defined in CMYK are found in the input data. An error message is issued and processing canceled if there are no CMYK objects.

​•​L*a*b*, else error

L*a*b* is set as the target color space if objects defined in L*a*b* are found in the input data. An error message is issued and processing canceled if there are no L*a*b* objects.

Take color definitions for new colors from color tables

The color definitions for new colors are taken from the color tables of Prinect Production when this option is enabled.

The color definitions for new colors are taken from the PDF input documents when this option is not enabled.

Autoresolve naming conflicts for new colors

The following processes are run if this option is checked:

​•​The names of all the spot colors are checked for correct notation (e.g. CYAN to Cyan).

​•​Old PANTONE extensions (CV, CVC, CVU, ...) are automatically changed to the current ones (C, U).

​•​HKS and PANTONE colors whose names only differ in their extensions automatically use one name. No difference is made between upper and lower case during the verification.

Note: We recommend that you always enable this option. This helps to avoid problems that may arise during print production due to unclear spot color definitions.

Submit print order to press

The printing color sequence determines the overprinting behavior of the process colors. In principle, the color that is further down in the order is printed first.

When this option is enabled, the order of the process colors set in the job settings will be used for printing. If necessary, you can move the printing order here using "drag-and-drop".

If this option is not enabled, the order of the process colors can be changed at a different point in the workflow.

Output empty separations

Empty separations, i.e. separations defined in the PDF documents but without any objects, are also output when this option is enabled. If this option is not enabled, empty separations are not submitted to the respective output sequences.