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Overview of the main windows

After starting ZePrA 2.0, a new start-up screen appears, where you can choose the next step either by clicking on one of the round icons or by clicking on one of the buttons at the bottom of the window. Three of the main windows are used for the basic configuration of ZePrA. You can set these windows manually, step by step, in accordance with your requirements, or quickly and reliably configure them completely for standard tasks via the "Auto Setup Wizard". The "SmartLink Setup" additionally offers you the option of falling back on DeviceLink profiles when converting the color of image or vector data in PDF, TIFF or JPEG format to a document color space or an output target. The "Create Gradation Curves" window is used to generate curves that you can apply to your files at the end of the conversion process, e.g. for fine-tuning to a specific printing process.

Clearly structured overview

The "Jobs and Queues Overview" window gives you a fast and clearly structured overview of your queues and the associated configurations in ZePrA. The queues created with the "Auto Setup Wizard" have the same names as the associated configurations. Queues and their configurations are generally managed separately from each other in ZePrA. The advantage of this is that a different configuration can be assigned to a queue at a later date. The "Define Queues" section tells you how to assign a different configuration to a queue.

Define Configurations

"Define Configurations" is used to make all the settings relating to the handling of colors and PDF-specific parameters. The upper area of the window allows you to select existing configurations, create new ones, or rename, delete and save any configurations. If you have selected an existing configuration and would like to duplicate it, just add a new name, modify the settings, if required, and save – it's so easy...

Define Queues

This window is used to define queues. To do so, you create folders, assign a configuration to the queue, and specify whether and how files are to be renamed after processing. In addition, some helpful features can be selected, such as tracking files for MIS systems or information that might be useful in other workflows.

SmartLink Setup

Using the clever SmartLink function will ensure that every possible profile combination, no matter whether it is for conversion to the target profile or the document color space, will use high-quality DeviceLink profiles instead of standard ICC profiles.

Create Gradation Curves

This window gives access to the new "Gradation Curves" function. Gradation curves are defined here and can later be applied to CMYK and spot color channels. The application of gradation curves completes the process of preparing data for printing. Shortly before going to press, almost every printing process calls for a printing characteristic that is stored in the RIP of the platesetter. This printing characteristic primarily serves to ensure compliance with printing standards and to compensate for imponderables in the printing process, these being brought about by a host of printing parameters, not least also by the substrate and the ink. These printing characteristics can now be directly included in the data to be converted. This function also allows you to make last-minute changes. You see, working with ZePrA is so easy and so powerful.

Our function list gives you an overview of all features in ZePrA. If you are interested, please contact one of our distribution partners listed in the yellow box. They can also provide you with a demo version.

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