Enhancements to KODAK’s MATCHFLOW Composer software enable flexible, automated file converting and color management in a single application.
MATCHFLOW Composer software v4.6 increases production efficiency and print quality by maintaining color integrity during the conversion of standard prepress file formats across different workflows and color standards. Files can be seamlessly converted between combinations of various industry, geographic and press color standards, such as SWOP, SNAP and GRACOL, Euro or Japan to U.S., and lithography to gravure.
“By providing whatever output conditions a job requires through a one step process, MATCHFLOW Composer software helps customers save time, reduce risk of errors and remakes, and lower costs,” said Eric Froeming, Product Manager, Kodak Polychrome Graphics. “New color management features let users take control of color processes and deliver greater quality under a variety of file and production conditions.”
MATCHFLOW Composer software is used worldwide for the conversion of such industry standard prepress file formats as PostScript, PDF, PDF/X-1a or PDF/X-3, Scitex Native, Handshake CT & LW, and TIFF/IT-P1 into any standard file format, with secured content, to output on all types of devices, such as high-resolution imagesetters, color proofers and CtP equipment. MATCHFLOW Composer software also delivers data for gravure applications, and performs extremely fast anti-aliasing of linework for output to proofers and color printers with high quality small text, thin lines and close-cut masks.
MATCHFLOW Composer software’s new color management option includes KPG’s Color Fidelity Module and standard CMYK profiles for regional printing conditions. The Color Fidelity Module operates within Apple’s ColorSync color management system and offers key graphic arts controls such as maintaining the black channel, dynamically computing undercolor removal and gray component replacement, and retaining inking solids and overprints.
About Eastman Kodak Company
Kodak is the leader in helping people take, share, print and view images – for memories, for information, for entertainment. With sales of $13.5 billion in 2004, the company is committed to a digitally oriented growth strategy focused on the following businesses: Health — supplying the medical and dental industries with traditional and digital imaging-information products and services, as well healthcare IT solutions and services; Graphic Communications – offering on-demand color and black and white printing, wide-format inkjet printing, high-speed, high-volume continuous inkjet printing, as well as document scanning, archiving and multi-vendor IT services; Digital & Film Imaging Systems – providing consumers, professionals and cinematographers with digital and traditional products and services; and Display & Components – which designs and manufactures state-of-the-art organic light-emitting diode displays as well as other specialty materials, and delivers imaging sensors to original equipment manufacturers. More information about Kodak (NYSE: EK) is available at www.kodak.com.
This article was last modified on July 18, 2005
This article was first published on July 18, 2005
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