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ColorCert Desktop Tools
Quality Assurance Software
ColorCert Desktop Tools are modular solutions enabling accurate creation of color specifications and process control at multiple points throughout the packaging workflow.
Process Control for Packaging Workflows
Todays’ complex packaging workflows require specialized tools to ensure accurate, repeatable color, from job to job across the plant or around the globe. As the range of inks, printing technologies and substrates has expanded, so has the complexity of maintaining color and print quality across various shifts and sites. Printers and packaging converters must ensure color is right the first time, right every time, in order to gain and retain customers in an increasingly competitive environment.
ColorCert Desktop Tools are software modules that help printers and converters meet this challenge. Each is focused on specific elements of the workflow, from prepress and proofing, to the ink room and on press process control. ColorCert Desktop Tools allow:
- Creation of print specifications.
- Measurement and certification of proofs.
- Print process control on-press, in real-time.
- Ink room quality assurance and direct connectivity with InkFormulation Software, sending measurements taken on press to the ink room for evaluation and reformulation.
Benefits:
- The ColorCert Suite was purpose built for the packaging industry to enable definition of specifications to fit the needs of the packaging workflow, from spot color and CMYK to CMYK/OGV. It utilizes specialty packaging metrics such as ink strength, white ink opacity, and colorimetric dot gain to align metrics with common packaging practices.
- ColorCert Desktop Tools make it easy for both prepress and the pressroom to use the same ICC and CGATS profiles, align their efforts to the same expectation. They also connect process control with the ink room, sending press measurements directly to InkFormulation Software for reformulation as needed.
- ColorCert Desktop Tools can also integrate with inline/near line measurement systems such as ITX and BST IPQ Spectral, providing for greater flexibility within your workflow.
- ColorCert Desktop Tools can retrieve information directly from MIS and other systems, as well as parse PDF metadata, for a streamlined, efficient job set-up and monitoring process.
- ColorCert Desktop tools allows converters to provide their brand owner customers with real-time ColorCert Scorecard data that confirms compliance with brand owner specifications including G7 and PSO guidelines, speeding approval processes and often eliminating the need for expensive and time consuming on-site press checks.
ColorCert Desktop Tools Include:
- ColorCert Inkroom: Used to evaluate color quality of inks based on jobs created in ColorCert Manager or self-created color standard definitions. Supports file formats such as ColorCert Libraries, CxF and MIF, ICC Profiles, CGATS, and PantoneLIVE. Available in Basic and Advanced.
- ColorCert Pressroom: Used at press-side for process control. Load ColorCert Jobs or quickly set up new jobs based on templates created in ColorCert Manager using the Job Setup wizard. Includes Inkroom Tools Basic to load ColorCert jobs, make quick checks and generate reports on individual ink colors. Its easy-to-use interface highlights areas that require attention, while providing guidance as to necessary corrective actions. This allows press operators to spend less time troubleshooting and more time maintaining and monitoring the press run.
- ColorCert Manager: The complete set of ColorCert Desktop Tools. ColorCert Manager is primarily used to develop ColorCert Jobs and maintain ColorCert Assets. Software modules include PressRoom Tools, Proofing Tools, Inkroom Tools Advanced, and ColorCert Editors.
Specifications
Android | No |
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Apple iOS | No |
Available Disk Space | 1GB |
Color Differences | CIE DL*, Da*, Db*, CIE DL*, DC*, DH*, DECMC (L:C), DE94, DE2000 (L:C:h), DE Density, DE Strength, DE wCh, DE wL |
Color Spaces | CIE L*a*b*, CIE L*C*h*(ab), CIE Luv, CIE L*C*h*(uv), CIE XYZ, CIE xyY |
Compatible Android Devices | None |
Compatible Software Supporting DNG Profiles | N/A |
Compatible iOS Devices | None |
Configuration Options | Inkroom Tools, Pressroom Essentials, Pressroom, Manager |
Connectivity | USB-Port, Bluetooth |
Databases | MIS |
Display Resolution | 1400 x 900 (Minimum) |
Experience Level | Beginner to Advanced |
Illuminants | A, B, C, D50, D55, D65, D75, F2, F7, F11 |
Import/Export Format | CxF, CGATS |
Ink Wells / Ink Units | 12 (Maximum) |
Internet Connection | Yes, for Repository Server, Scorecard Server, and PantoneLIVE |
Languages Supported | English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese, Finnish, Czech |
Macintosh | Mac OS X 10.10, Mac OS X 10.11, and Mac OS X 10.12 |
Measurement Conditions | Reflectance, SCI / SCE, M0, M1, M2, M3 |
Memory | 2GB |
Mobile Device Compatibility | No |
NetProfiler Support | Yes |
Number of Displays Supported per Workstation | 1 |
Observers | 2 degree, 10 degree |
Optical Drive | No |
PantoneLIVE Support | Yes |
Pass / Fail | Yes |
Processor | Core 2 Duo, 2 GHz |
Sample Preview | Yes |
Scanner Target Support | N/A |
Security | Web file + Install Only |
Software Modes | N/A |
Standard Indices | CIE Whiteness, Opacity (%) |
Supported Devices | eXact, 530, 939, SP62/SP64, Ci5x/Ci6x, SpectroEye |
Supported Profile Format | ICC, CGATS |
User Experience | Configurable |
Video Card | N/A |
What's Included? | Installation Instructions, Licensing Dongle |
Windows | Windows® 7, Windows® 8, Windows® 8.1, Windows® 10 |
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Whitepapers
News and Events
Webinars

Using ECG to Enhance Brand Packaging Colors
Attend this webinar to learn more about Extended Gamut printing to achieve the vibrant colors brand owners expect today consistently from design to end product.

Pantone Certification: First Unique Spot Colors Standardization Program
Attend this free webinar to learn about the Pantone Certification process. Note: This webinar will be presented in Turkish.

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Attend this free webinar to learn about the Pantone Certification process. Note: This webinar will be presented in Russian.

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Attend this free webinar to learn about the Pantone Certification process. Note: This webinar will be presented in German.
Events

CFTA Association Flexo Conference
Come see how X-Rite can help printers and packaging converters as well as brands achieve perfect color management at CFTA Flexo Conference!

Syskevasia
X-Rite and its local partner Development Ltd will exhibit at Syskevasia. Come see how our solutions help printers and packaging converters as well as brands achieve perfect color management.

Reklama Polygraf
Come see how X-Rite can help printers achieve perfect color management at Reklama Polygraf!

Pack Expo 2018
Come see our color experts to discuss your specific color challenges and solutions at Pack Expo 2018.

EskoWorld 2018
Come see Esko’s partner X-Rite Pantone to learn how our solutions help brands and packaging converters reduce time to market and quality control costs, and unify color communications across the entire color workflow and the packaging supply chain.

FTA InfoFlex 2018
Come see the global leader in color science and technology X-Rite Pantone to learn how our solutions help printers and packaging converters reduce time to market and quality control costs, and unify color communications across your entire color workflow and the packaging supply chain.

Print4All - Converflex
X-Rite and its local partner ColorConsulting will exhibit at Print4All – Converflex. Come see how our solutions help printers and packaging converters as well as brands achieve perfect color management.

All4Pack
X-Rite Pantone and Esko will exhibit at All4Pack together again this year! Come see how our solutions help printers and packaging converters as well as brands achieve perfect color management.