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ZePrA 2.0 - the smart color server
Advantages of ZePrA at a glance:
- Simple, clearly structured user prompting and setup
- Extraordinarily high speed
- The outstanding quality of color conversion resulting from the use of ColorLogic SmartLink and DeviceLink profile technology
- The outstanding quality of PDF processing. ColorLogic geared the software to the PDF test files of the Ghent Working Group (www.gwg.org) for processing PDF/X files, which are processed faultlessly
- Linking to Enfocus Switch, and thus to a completely automatable workflow, from data receipt, preflighting and top-class color conversion, all the way to data distribution
- Correction of gradation curves for process and spot colors
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Automated use of first-class ICC and DeviceLink profiles
Now that DeviceLink profiles have increasingly established themselves for processing digital data for various reproduction methods, ZePrA from ColorLogic offers a solution for automating the color conversion of PDF and pixel files by means of ICC and DeviceLink profiles. This makes ZePrA the ideal addition to CoLiPri, CoPrA and the Standard DeviceLink Profile Sets from ColorLogic. The brand-new ZePrA 2.0 now has plenty of new functions that simplify your daily work.
ZePrAs Auto Setup Wizard
The easiest way to automate color conversion work is to use a combination of ZePrA and the Standard DeviceLink Profile Sets. This combination allows conversion of data to standard printing conditions without being a color management expert. A few clicks is all it takes, and ZePrA then automatically configures all the necessary hot folders and is instantly ready to process PDF, TIFF and JPEG data for the CMYK, RGB and Grayscale color spaces and spot colors. ZePrA can be configured differently to address the various targets of possible color conversions. Therefore, four different ways to define your queues are available:
- Normalize to document color space or output intent
- Normalize and convert colors to new output condition
- SaveInk or optimize total area coverage
- Direct color conversion to new output condition
Special features of ZePrA
The combination of ZePrA and ColorLogic DeviceLink profiles is currently the world's simplest and fastest PDF color server when it comes to individual configuration. ZePrA is the first solution to provide full support of the standard tags in ICC DeviceLink profiles and use them to define a workflow. In addition, it is extremely fast. But ZePrA is not only fast, it also delivers top quality by converting all PDF/X standards (from X-1a to the latest X-4 and X-5n standards). Jobs can easily be monitored in the clearly structured Overview window, which is divided into jobs in progress, pending jobs, and processed jobs. The color quality of the converted file can be verified with the help of an integrated soft proof without requiring any additional third-party tool. ZePrA is, of course, not limited to using the standard profiles. This is just one possible way of creating a workflow. With the help of the Configurations window, users can manually define any combination of color conversions they need to automate. Individual configurations can be saved and applied to any hot folder, or duplicated and modified for other conversions. There are separate areas for selecting the desired color conversion for every supported color space. In addition, options are available for the targeted handling of spot colors, the definition of PDF-specific settings and, from Version 2.0 on, the new capability to apply correction curves to process and spot color channels with the help of the brand-new Gradations module. The feature overview lists all features of ZePrA 2 in comparison with ZePrA 1.
Advantages of SmartLink technology
An additional highlight of ZePrA 2.0 is the SmartLink module, whose intelligent mechanisms permit reliable color conversion of all data. Instead of "normal" ICC color conversion with device-dependent profiles, SmartLink generates a DeviceLink profile "on-the-fly", based on the output profiles involved and the rendering intent. ZePrA uses SmartLink not only for RGB-to-CMYK, but also for CMYK-to-CMYK, Gray-to-Gray, Gray-to-CMYK, and CMYK-to-Gray conversion.
Three different methods are available for configuring SmartLink:
- In fully automatic mode, SmartLink is activated in ZePrA, and all required conversions are calculated in the background in the form of DeviceLink profiles based on the source and target color spaces for RGB, CMYK and Gray
- It is also possible to use specific DeviceLink profile for certain conversions. Whenever these combinations of source and target profiles and rendering intents are detected, SmartLink will use the DeviceLink profiles that you have saved in a specific list. This option is especially interesting for all those customers who want to use their individual, perhaps edited DeviceLink profiles, such as the high-quality ColorLogic DeviceLink Sets.
- The third mode combines both options. First, ZePrA searches for appropriate DeviceLink profiles in your list. If no profiles are found, the required DeviceLinks are generated in the background.
Integration with Enfocus Switch
Due to the fact that many users are interested in automating relatively complex workflows, only part of which is covered by color conversion, ZePrA has permitted integration with Enfocus Switch since Version 1.2 and, of course, also in ZePrA 2. An example can be found on the Crossroads page. Other workflow solutions can also access the outstanding color management quality of ZePrA by using the CLI module (Command Line Interface).
ZePrA efficiently closes the gap between manual color conversion of PDF and pixel files and use of a complex and expensive workflow tool. Moreover, it is a perfect supplement to the other products from ColorLogic. If you are interested in more information, please contact one of our distribution partners listed in the yellow box. They can also provide a demo version.