Additional Enhancements

• New spool file format that consist of only one file even when segmentation is used.
• New job Cancel function (availability depends on the printer driver) that terminates the job on the printer
• There are options to run 1, 2, 4, or unlimited numbers of PrintClients on the same PC.

Advanced Job Property Display

The PrintClient gives you as much information as possible about the progress of a print job. It shows the progress in percent, the elapsed and remaining printing time, number of printed copies, consumed and required media, as well as a the current print speed in m2/h.

Color Engine

• Support of ICC 4 profiles.
• Support of device link profiles.
• New rendering Intent Relative Colorimetric with BlackPointCompensation (BPC).

Cost Display for Printed Jobs

It is now possible to display the cost for a job by using the settings for ink, media, and time set up in the print environment. This data can also be exported to a text file that can be imported into other applications such as Excel to use the information to create bills etc.

CxF support

Support of the Color Exchange Format for seamless digital color communication. It can be used to import / export Swatch books. Also all color readings in the ErgoRIP are now saved in this format. This allows to exchange measurements to other application including the spectral data.

Density Re-Linearization

It is a well known fact that the behavior of print heads is changing during the time of their usage. The density linearization tool was always designed to match this special application issue. To make a re-linearization even easier and available to more of our users (also supported in the light version) we added a re-linearization wizard which is guiding the customer directly through the needed steps to create a successful re-linearization.

Enhanced Screen Printing Functions

The screening has been enhanced in respect of moiré free screening. The new autotype dithering „Screenprinting (Autotype 3)“ reduces the moiré and supports now also asymmetric resolutions. These enhancements make the Screenprinting (Autotype 3) dithering a little slower than its antecessors. If a faster processing is needed ErgoSoft offers the possibility to change the parameters in order to speed up the process by loosing accuracy.

Estimate Cost (Optional)

To provide a better production cost control or even to make the calculation of an offer easier, we added a feature which allows you to estimate the cost of a created job. Therefore the snapshot of the used image together with the parameters set up in the current print environment for media, ink, and time are used to calculate the cost. The „Export“ function allows you to export the calculation into a *.txt file in order to use this data for offers etc.

Image Format

The import option „Image Format“ should help you to create standard import formats to minimize the effort of scaling and cropping images which need to be printed in a certain format. It allows to define a user defined image format as well as the fitting mode. You can specify different fitting modes like keep proportion, rotate to fit, fit width only, fit height only, fit both, force one side to fit only, fit by margin, fit by crop, etc. E.g. if you have 100 photos which usually need to be printed in a certain format, you can define one image format and just import all needed images. There will be no more need to edit each image. A image format can also be applied to images already imported into the job.

Image Group

The image group function was developed to simplify the creation of more complicated jobs. It allows to group a number of images in order to move, mirror, rotate or duplicate the group without loosing the defined arrangement. The image group function is most likely known from many DTP applications.

Job Display

There are several enhancements in the display of the job to achieve the above mentioned target of making the work with the JobComposer more powerful, easier, and more efficient than before. Therefore we enhanced the resolution of the snapshots which show much more details than before. Also additional changes on an image like added color profiles, color replacements, and color corrections will now be displayed in the job. Also the previews in the JobCenter or in the Print/CutClients show these additional changes.

Job Send Control

In order to prevent you from printing jobs which do not fit on the loaded media size or type, the PrintClient offers a security feature, which allows you to define which media size and type is loaded. Only jobs which fit into the defined rules will be printed. To optimize the effect of this security feature the guiding rules can be defined as a default for all PrintClients or individually for each PrintClient. Thus, this security feature can also be turned off.

Job Ticket (Optional)

Often the detailed information about a job is not only needed in the JobCenter. Therefore we added the possibility to display the detailed information as a Job Ticket. The Job Ticket can be selected in the JobCenter and will be displayed in your web browser. This makes saving or printing the Job Ticket easy and fast.

JobCenter

The improved JobCenter (former JobQueueViewer) gives now a complete overview about all print jobs and all active tools. The JobCenter allows full control about each job, RipServer, Print or CutClient, as well as all finished and archived jobs. The JobCenter contains seven different sections: Printer Id, RIP Machine, Job Archive, Contour Cut, Print, RIP, and Suspended. In order to manage your jobs in the most efficient way, the JobCenter allows to define its appearance exactly in the way you need it. Additionally it gives you the full control over the displayed information.

JobComposer

When you start the JobComposer you will notice that it pretty much looks the same as in version 12. But in this case the first look is deceptive. We added and enhanced several functions and dialogs which should make the work with the JobComposer more powerful, easier, and more efficient than before.

Management of Snapshots

The fact that a too high number of snapshots can slow down the software and furthermore may cause communication problems forced us to redevelop the management of snapshots. Adding the fact that the snapshots are even bigger in the new version we implemented a control dialog which allows you to define specific storage limits for the hard disk or for each existing snapshot folder. Once a specific limit is reached the software will delete the snapshots which have not been used for the longest time. You can also set a specific limit of last access after which a folder will be deleted automatically. To prevent important snapshots from being deleted by one.

Measuring Function

The measuring function has been changed so that it is now possible to save the current stage after each page scanned. It is also possible to scan the same page more than once to get an average of the measurements. This helps to reduce problems due to some wrong readings. If a page is scanned more than once all measurements can be displayed to be compared.

Multi Core CPU Support

With the integration of Multi Core CPU technology the RIP process has been accelerated. The time required to RIP the data on modern systems is half as long as in the previous version.

New Production Tools

We expanded and improved the production tools to provide the needed functionality in the most powerful and user friendly way. Therefore we redesigned and improved the JobCenter (formerly JobQueueViewer) and replaced the PrintQueue by a completely new developed tool called PrintClient.

On the fly change of print parameters

The PrintClient offers the possibility to change print parameters like the numbers of passes, unidirectional or bidirectional printing, heater control etc. without the need of re-ripping the job. Availability of this feature depends on the printer driver.

Optimized User Interface

We have optimized the user interface to keep the interface as thin as possible by providing you as much information as possible. This makes the PrintClient a user friendly tool. Additionally, you can start a separate PrintQueue window that displays all jobs for the printer of the PrintClient. The additional PrintQueue window gives you, similar to the JobCenter, the possibility to organize the order and priority of each job for the printer of the PrintClient.

Overlay

If you look at the toolbar you will find two new icons. One allows to activate the overlay mode which gives you the opportunity to drag images over each other. The images will automatically be merged to one image using an overlay. If you hold shift while dragging the images over each other, the images will be merged using transparency. You can merge as many images as needed. The second icon allows to undo and modify an overlay.

Picture Package

Imagine that you have to print standardized jobs containing one image in different sizes. E.g. a picture of a bridal couple which always needs to be printed in three different sizes. The new feature allows to define a package template which includes place holders in the size and arrangement in which you want to print the files. Once you saved this package as a template you can easily load it with the select a file (e.g. picture of a bridal couple) which will be printed in exactly the defined sizes. Several „Fitting“ options allow you to control the scaling of the images.

Print Marks

Different images might need different print marks and print descriptions. To cover this need we added a print mark administration dialog which allows you define different sets of print marks that can be used in the same job. Thus, you can select specific print marks for each image. Adding more power to the print marks feature we expanded the number of values which can be set: Crop Marks, Register Marks, and Image Label. Once you have saved a set, you can easily select it in any job.

PrintClient

As mentioned in the head line, the PrintQueue has been replaced by a complete new developed tool called „Print Client“. Keeping the functionality of the PrintQueue, the PrintClient comes with many enhancements. The new appearance and the integration of the PrintClient into the above mentioned JobCenter make the PrintClient an even stronger tool.

Printer Status Display

Ability to display the printer status like loaded media and remaining ink in the PrintClient for printers that are supporting this function (Mimaki, Roland, HP, Seiko, and Canon)

Replace Colors

The new replace colors dialog now allows to increase the number of colors to be replaced. Until now, the numbers of displayed replaceable colors has been limited to the most used colors. It is now possible to replace colors that are not in the list of the color replace window. By selecting any pixel in the preview window you can add this color to the list of replaceable colors.

RipServer / PreviewServer

The RipServer and the PreviewServer basically remain unaffected. Since we added more control power to the JobCenter we decided to move the RipServer into the background. Therefore the RipServer starts as a tray icon. If the full dialog is needed it can be maximized easily by double-clicking on the tray icon.

Usage of Spot Colors

It is now possible to use the spot colors also for color replacements. Additionally, we added the possibility to use the density of the black channel or a default value in case that it is not possible to measure the used spot color.

Variable Data (Optional)

This new feature allows to define different objects like variable images and variable text and combine them as one image. The layout of the job is made in a special design mode of the JobComposer. Once you have created such a job it can be saved as a template.
Based on that template you can define different attributes for each variable element depending on the object type that was added. It is also possible to mix static and dynamic elements in one template. All the settings for the variable elements can be imported from a text file or entered manually in the user interface. The big benefit of this implementation is that static objects are only rendered once. This function also boosts the range of possibilities of jobs and applications that can be done much easier and much faster than before.

White Print Option

The creation of the white data is now handled by setting up the options in the device options. There is an option to fill only when no pixel is set, when a pixel is set, and to fill the complete background.

Zoom Feature

To increase the accuracy of tiling and cropping we added the zoom function for these tools. It allows to zoom into the image. When a very high zoom factor is used it is also possible to display and zoom into the original file.

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