Increasing Digital Print Quality With Savings

One Vision Software has introduced the next generation of its software for commercial and digital printing.

One Vision Software has introduced the next generation of its software for commercial and digital printing.

The technical focus of Speedflow 2.5 was driven by the target of increasing the competitiveness of One Vision's users, said the company.

It believes that it has been achieved by enabling an increase in printing quality and also improvements in finances, due to fewer discounts and additionally reducing the consumption of consumables such as toner and ink.

The possibility to provide customers with standardised output according to agreed PDF standards helps the One Vision users to make their competence even more transparent to their customers, said One Vision.

The focus of the new generation of Speedflow is in its enhanced colour control.

The new options include automatic TAC identification and reduction, rich black removal and enhanced automatic grey detection that can be implemented without special colour management skills or software, whilst increasing the quality of printing enormously, especially for images, said the company.

The improvements additionally decrease the costs for ink, or toner significantly, claimed One Vision.

Albert Vollenweider, the managing director of AM Digital from Cham (Switzerland) said: "When using the new version with a Xeikon, we were able to reduce the toner up to 12 per cent at 260 per cent area coverage and, at 180 per cent area coverage, up to 34 per cent." Thanks to enhanced TAC detection, users of Speedflow 2.5 are now able to automatically detect if the ink coverage might cause a problem during printing, whilst ignoring small areas that will not be at issue, such as crop marks.

Once a problem has been identified users then have the option to apply a TAC reduction.

If a correction is enabled the software reduces the amount of ink in the areas that are over TAC, but only affects those areas, it does not touch the rest of the image or page, added One Vision.

Therefore, Speedflow users can control the amount of ink being used without actually changing the colour of an image or element.

That is not possible with transfer curves or with colour management technology (like ICC profiles), as those always affect a whole page, said the company.

Speedflow 2.5 additionally now offers the possibility to transfer rich black in to pure black.

Also the automatic grey detection has been enhanced, as Windows applications often construct grey from red, green and blue instead of CMYK or black.

The enhanced grey detection in Speedflow 2.5 now allows, next to the conversion of RGB text and graphics, the detection and conversion of lab data in greyscales.

Additionally pictures can now also be processed and in CMYK colours and images empty channels can be identified and eliminated, it is claimed.

In the interest of its customers and supporting the demand of increasing standardisation, One Vision said it agreed with leading associations such as the Ghent PDF Workgroup, PPA UK (pass4press version 5) as well as VFG and Voz (Onorm A 1503) to specific queue settings in our system corresponding to their respective requirements.

It is now possible to adapt incoming PDF, EPS, and Postscript files to conform to the particular specifications.

The company believes that it can offer its customers the highest possible flexibility and service at data transfer and nevertheless produce files that are 100 per cent compliant with the preferred norm or specification.

One Vision added that it has also extended the functions regarding individual adaptations of output formats - the new version of Speedflow allows additional fine tuning of output formats in case of older output devices.

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