User's Manual

Digital Proofing: Step by step
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1. Open an ink book by double-clicking an empty patch or by clicking the ink book symbol in the ink
toolbar.
2. Drag and drop the ink(s) that you want to assign exceptions to choose the kind of exception.
; Note
You can skip step 1 and 2 by simply clicking the name field of an empty row and entering the name
or abbreviation of an ink .
When you press 'Enter', the ink is searched first in Pantone and then in Designer book and the row
is completed if the ink is found in any of these books.
If you are not happy with the ink you can start by entering the ink book name and afterwards the
ink name.
3. If you click the ‘Use’ column, you will see that there are 5 options:
• Destination profile: with this option, Pantone inks will be converted to CMYK using the output
profile.
• Keep in output: with this option, FlexProof will generate an extra separation. This is where you
should specify the white ink that should appear as a separate separation on the Indigo press.
• Do not proof: with option the ink will not be proofed.
• Use Custom Values: you can define your own output values. This option allows you to finetune
spot colors. When you select 'Use Custom Values', the fields become editable and you can
change the numbers. In the example below the profile gives us 1.1% of Cyan for Pantone
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106. We reduce this to 0%