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Only the Roland Hi-Fi JET and CAMMJET can

achieve over 97% of PANTONE



Colors.

The Hexachrome Workflow for the Roland HiThe Hexachrome Workflow for the Roland Hi--Fi JET and CAMMJETFi JET and CAMMJET

After extensive testing and calibration, Roland is proud to offer a PANTONE



Hexachrome



workflow for the award winning Hi-Fi JET and CAMMJET printers. By following the steps outlined

in this document, the Hi-Fi JET and CAMMJET will be able to simulate over 97% of all PANTONE

MATCHING SYSTEM (PMS) Colors.

1. 1. OVERVIEW OF REQUIRED COMPONENTSOVERVIEW OF REQUIRED COMPONENTS

• The 42" FJ-40/CJ-40 or the 52" FJ-50/CJ50 Roland Hi-Fi JET or CAMMJET products

• Set the Hi-Fi JET or CAMMJET for Super 720 dpi unidirectional print mode

• Roland Pigment CMYKOG inks

• Roland PQM Super Hi Gloss White Film

• Macintosh



running OS 8.5 or later

• PC running Windows



98 for PANTONE



HexImage and QuarkXPress compatibility or

a PC running Windows



NT for QuarkXPress compatibility only.

• ColorChoice



3.0 software for Macintosh or PC

• Adobe



Photoshop



5.x for Macintosh or PC

• QuarkXPress 4.x for Macintosh or PC

• PANTONE

HexImage™ for Macintosh or PC

• Hi-Fi JET Hexachrome color library (same for CAMMJET) added to the QuarkXPress 4.x.

• Hi-Fi JET Hexachrome ICC profile (same for CAMMJET) for use within HexImage™ and

QuarkXPress 4.x

• PANTONE



Solid in Hexachrome color fan guide (Available from your Roland Dealer)

2. 2. HiHi--Fi JET INK REQUIREMENTFi JET INK REQUIREMENT

Hexachrome is Pantone, Inc.’s patented six-color printing process. Using Roland’s especially

vibrant CMYK pigment inks, plus the addition of Roland’s Orange and Green pigment inks, the Hi-

Fi JET and CAMMJET are able to simulate over 97% of the solid PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM

Colors as compared to 50% achievable in CMYK four-color process printing.

Roland’s CMYKOG pigment inks are required to simulate Hexachrome Colors on the Hi-Fi JET.

These inks are available from your local Hi-Fi JET dealer. The part numbers for these inks are as

follows:

• FPG-CY- Cyan Pigment ink • FPG-MG- Magenta Pigment ink • FPG-YE- Yellow Pigment ink

• FPG-BK- Black Pigment ink • FPG-OR- Orange Pigment ink • FPG-GR- Green Pigment ink

Summary of content (28 pages)

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Only the Roland Hi-Fi JET and CAMMJET can achieve over 97% of PANTONE Colors. The Hexachrome Workflow for the Roland Hi-Fi JET and CAMMJET After extensive testing and calibration, Roland is proud to offer a PANTONE Hexachrome workflow for the award winning Hi-Fi JET and CAMMJET printers. By following the steps outlined in this document, the Hi-Fi JET and CAMMJET will be able to simulate over 97% of all PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM (PMS) Colors. 1.
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3. MEDIA REQUIREMENTS Media is one of the critical components of consistent color accuracy. Every media carries with it a unique color gamut or reproducible number of colors due in part to its individual ink-receptive coating, base paper/film, and overall white point. In order for the Hi-Fi JET and CAMMJET to simulate over 97% of the PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM ® Colors, it was necessary to specify a media that had an extremely large color gamut.
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• ColorChoice® 3.0 SETIINGS Install ColorChoice® 3.0 by following the instructions located in the Readme folder on the ColorChoice 3.0 CD. Windows users should open the R C C . p d f file while Macintosh users should open the U s e r G u i d e E n g l i s h file within the English folder. Once installed select Setup Properties under the Printer pull-down menu.
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Once the Setup Properties window is open, select the Print tab at the top of the dialog to display the RIP settings. The Perform Color Correction tab can be left on since ColorChoice automatically turns off all color management when working with DCS files. Therefore, settings for the ICC input profile and ICC output profile can be disregarded.
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• P A N T O N E ®® H e x I m a g e ™ PANTONE®® HexImage™ creates six-channel Hexachrome®® separations from RGB, CMYK or L*a*b* images with the HexImage™ plug-in for Photoshop ®® . Using HexImage is as simple as defining the source and separation profiles, the rendering intent, and then by selecting the Separate button. The resulting Hexachrome separations appear as a new image to be saved as a DCS 3.0 file for ColorChoice 3 or placement in QuarkXPress 4.x document.
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W i n d o w s ® 9 8 users must copy the Hi-Fi JET Hexachrome ICC file named P A N H E X R O . I C M into two separate folder on the computer. First the Hi-Fi JET Hexachrome ICC file must be copied into the Pantone folder within the Windows folder.
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W i n d o w s ® 9 8 users must also copy the same P A N H E X R O . I C M file into the Color Folder located within the Windows folder inside the System folder.
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• Adobe Photoshop 5.x / PANTONE HexImage™ SETTINGS In order to prepare bitmap/raster data for the Hi-Fi JET/CAMMJET Hexachrome process the desired image must be in an RGB, CMYK, or LAB color space. To verify or change the type of data in a bitmap/raster image file, open it in Photoshop 5.x and go to the Image pull-down and select Mode. The color mode of the file and the bit depth will be checked. The screen capture below illustrates a LAB color file with 8 Bits per channel.
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Then to begin HexImage, simply select the File pull-down and go to the Automate fly-out so the PANTONE HexImage item can be selected.
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Once the HexImage dialog box appears you can choose the appropriate settings required for separating the image file into Hexachrome data. First select the Source Profile that matches the color mode of the opened image file in Photoshop 5. In the illustration below the file is the same LAB file illustrated previously. Next select the PANTONE®® Hexachrome ®® Roland Hi - Fi JET (same for CAMMJET) as the Separation Profile.
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To save the resulting Hexachrome data for use in ColorChoice 3 or QuarkXPress 4.x it must be saved as Photoshop DCS 2.0 data. Simply go to the File pull-down and select Save As… then specify the Format as Photoshop DCS 2.0 and select Save. The DCS 2.0 Format dialog box will appear and the default settings should be the same as the following screen capture. These available options should not effect the Hi-Fi JET Hexachrome workflow, but the screen capture below represents the recommended settings.
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• Q u a r k X P r e s s  4.x Currently, QuarkXpress 4.0 is the only software program that can generate pre-separated DCS formatted b i t m a p / v e c t o r EPS files containing the correctly separated Hexachrome defined CMYKOG channels for the Hi-Fi JET/CAMMJET Hexachrome workflow. QuarkXPress 4.x includes the Hi-Fi JET Hexachrome ICC Profile (same for CAMMJET) used to correctly calculate the ink amount and location within the Hexachrome separations during the print process.
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To prepare QuarkXPress for the Hi-Fi JET Hexachrome workflow, the Hi-Fi JET formatted " P a n t o n e C o l o r f o r Q u a r k X P r e s s 4 " color library (same for CAMMJET) must be appended to the available color libraries by selecting the Edit pull-down and choosing Colors. Once the Colors dialog box appears select the Append button. When the Append Colors dialog appears simply locate the QuarkXPress 4.0 folder on the ColorChoice 3.0 CD within the Pantone folder.
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Once the Append Colors dialog box is open individual Hi-Fi JET PANTONE Hexachrome colors (same for CAMMJET) can be added one by one or all of the colors can be added to QuarkXPress by selecting the Include All button. The process of including all of the PANTONE® Colors can take some time and the computer will lock out all other processes until all colors have been added.
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Once the Color Management Preferences dialog box is open, simply check the Color Management Active selection box to activate all the options. Specify the PANTONE Hexachrome Roland Hi-Fi JET (same for CAMMJET) as the Separation Printer, as well as the Color and Image printer under the Hexachrome tab. Additional settings are illustrated by the screen capture below. All other options are not part of the Hi-Fi JET Hexachrome workflow. Following the instructions included with QuarkXPress 4.
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The screen capture below illustrates a file that has been correctly assembled for the Hi-Fi JET Hexachrome workflow. It includes the DCS image from Photoshop 5.x/HexImage, and a simple rectangle filled with Pantone Reflex Blue from the Hi-Fi JET PANTONE Color library appended earlier. To get the data from QuarkXPress to ColorChoice, several specific options need to be selected in the print process. To initiate the print process select the File pull-down and then choose Print.
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Then select the Setup tab and specify the H i - Fi JET FJ - 50, 50 Hi - Fi JET FJ - 40, CAMMJET CJCJ- 50, 50 or C A M M J E T C J - 4 0 for the Printer Description. Also set the Paper Width according to the document dimension. This can be verified by selecting the Preview tab and noting the Document Size listed on the left. All other settings can be obtained from the screen capture below. Next select the Output tab to verify the settings shown in the screen capture below.
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Next select the Options tab to simply confirm that the Data selection is set to Binary. All other settings on this tab can be specified to the preference of the user. Next select the Preview tab to verify that the Setup tab Paper Width value and the Document dimensions are correct. In the illustration below the Paper Size and the Document Size are off by half an inch, which is illustrated in the preview on the right by the overlapping blue line.
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Next select the Profiles tab to verify that the PANTONE® Hexachrome® Roland Hi-Fi Jet profile (same for CAMMJET) is selected. Next select the Page Setup button on the lower left of the dialog box. **The following sections are separated into Macintosh , Windows  95/98, and Windows  NT. • MACINTOSH PRINT SCREENS Once the Adobe Post Script Page Setup dialog box appears select Custom for the Paper, followed by selecting the Page Attributes fly-out box to select the Custom Page Default option.
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The Print dialog will appear again and the next step is to select the Printer button located in the lower center of the dialog box which will activate the General Printer settings dialog box. Select the General fly-out box and select Color Matching.
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Set Color Matching to Color/Grayscale, then select Printer Specific Options from the fly-out. Once the Printer Specific Options appears select 720dpi resolution, and select Hold for both spooling and printing options. This will allow you to make any necessary changes to ColorChoice 3.0 prior to ripping the job. When complete select Print to return to the Print dialog box.
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• WINDOWS  95/98 PRINT SCREENS Windows 95/98 users will see the slightly different Print Dialog box as it appears below. Once the settings have been applied from the previous section, select the Properties button at the upper right. Once the Properties dialog box appears select Custom Page from the row of options and then select the Custom button near the bottom center of the screen Once the Custom Defined Size dialog box appears enter the Width and Length (height) values that match the Quark document.
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Once the Device Options dialog box appears select Hold for both the Spooling and Printing options. . This will allow you to make any necessary changes to ColorChoice 3.0 prior to ripping the job. When complete select OK to return to the Print dialog box. • WINDOWS  NT PRINT SCREENS Windows NT users will see the slightly different Print Dialog box as it appears below. Once the settings have been applied from the previous section, select the Properties button at the upper right.
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Find the Printer Features at the bottom and select Hold for the Spooling and Printing options. This will allow you to make any necessary changes to ColorChoice 3.0 prior to ripping the job. When complete select OK to return to the Print dialog box. • COMMON PRINT SCREENS FOR MAC AND PC Once the Print dialog appears again select Print to release the document. During this process QuarkXPress 4.
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When the process is complete make sure you have the QuarkXPress document saved so that it can be used in the future. Next launch ColorChoice 3.0 and verify that the document is listed in the queue. Then double click the document in the queue to open the Job Properties dialog box. Once the Job Properties dialog box is open, select Page Preview in the upper right hand corner to activate the preview function. This preview is the first of the six color plates within the DCS 3.0 file, which is the CYAN plate.
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**The Layout Preview of DCS files will always show each of the six color plates within the DCS 3.0 file instead of one composite plate. Even though six black and white plates representing the individual CMYKOG appear, O N L Y O N E F U L L C O L O R print will occur on the Hi-Fi JET where the first plate appears near the bottom right on the Layout Preview screen. All Job Properties settings are still active including and will be shown interactively on the Layout Preview screen.
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Should you encounter any technical problems with this workflow, please email a complete description of the problem to the Roland DGA Corporation technical support staff at the following email address: mowens@rolanddga.com Alternatively, you can call the Roland DGA Corporation technical support department at the following toll free number: (800) 542-2307 Roland DGA Corporation thanks you for choosing our color solutions and we look forward to providing more innovative tools to market in the near future.
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Appendix For more information on the Roland Hi-Fi JET visit the following site at: http://www.hifijet.com/ For more information on all available Roland certified Hi-Fi JET media visit the following site at: http://www.rolanddga.com/products/color/hifi-media.html For more information on all Roland products please visit the following site at: http://www.rolanddga.com/ To obtain a free upgrade to ColorChoice 3.