User's Manual

Dealing with Special colors

Color Kit features tools that enable you to characterize inks.

The standard library of Pantone inks was also characterized in this way (Cromalin based).

With Color Kit, you can also create your inks (and ink database).

We strongly advise to use the Designer Ink Book for Profiled inks since only 3 books are recognized

throughout the system: Process, Pantone Colors Coated and Designer. In all your jobs, you should

ONLY use inks that are in those three inkbooks.

However, if you would measure your own Pantone

book, you must use inkmapping to map

incoming inks (used in your job) to that special inkbook.

How to create your own inks?

• Copying from an existing ink book (page 48)

• Measuring an ink with a spectrophotometer (page 48)

• Creating an ink by entering an LAB value (page Error! Bookmark not defined.)

Copying from an existing ink book

This can be useful if you want to use the spectral information and accuracy of a Pantone ink but you

want to give the ink another name.

1. Open the ink book you want to copy an ink from (e.g. the Pantone Color Coated book).

2. Open the ink book you want to copy the ink to (e.g. the Designer inkbook).

3. Drag and drop the ink into the ink book (or use Copy/Paste).

Measuring an ink with a spectrophotometer

For outputting to your HP Indigo digital Press, we recommend to introduce special colours into the

designer book by measuring the 100% patch. Click

Measuring the 100% patch

You can 'profile' an ink with only one measurement. This can be very useful if you want to simulate a

special flat tint and the thing you have is an original. In this case you can measure this single color

with your spectrophotometer. Proceed as follows:

1. Open the ink book you want to add the ink to.

2. Select an empty color patch.

3. Put the head of your spectrophotometer on the color that you want to measure.