SmartLink quality advantages

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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First example: CMYK to CMYK

A PDF/X document contains CMYK objects with embedded ICC device profiles and is to be converted from ISO Coated v2 to ISO Uncoatedyellowish. Normally, the embedded profiles would perform standard ICC conversion, either to the document color space or to the target color space. But with CMYK-to-CMYK color conversion, this will lead to various problems in the printing process. Using SmartLink instead guarantees optimum preservation of the color structure of the original data, and also of pure colors.

Left:Separation with normal ICC conversion
Center:Original separation
Right:Separation with SmartLink

Advantages

Smooth gradients
Gray stays gray, and black stays black
The separation characteristics are preserved
Pure, highly saturated primaries and secondaries
Pure duplex and triplex color combinations are preserved
Overprinting properties are preserved

Second example: RGB to CMYK

The use of DeviceLinks is also advantageous for RGB objects with embedded profiles. Secondaries are generated from four colors if standard ICC conversion is applied. If you use SmartLink instead, secondaries will remain pure even after conversion, meaning that secondaries are generated from only two colors. Even more, the yellow primary stays pure, and primaries and secondaries are reproduced with high saturation. The typical desaturation of an ICC-based conversion is avoided, and the separation quality is much better.

Left:Separation with normal ICC conversion
Right:Separation with SmartLink

Advantages

Smooth gradients
Better definition in blue areas, without a violet cast
Pure yellow, without contamination by cyan
Pure, highly saturated secondaries
No desaturation of primaries, secondaries and gradients

If you, too, want to access the quality advantages of SmartLink, please contact one of our distributors listed in the yellow box. They can also provide a demo version.