X-Rite InkFormulation 5 Manufacturer Full Manuel d'utilisateur Page 1

1 Settings First Steps

10 Please load a saved color via ColorNet for the exercises: 1. Mark the draft of „Table Brown“ in the index „InkFormulation“ → „Default“

11 3. The next Step is to define the substrate type of the draft. For our exercise, please choose “coated” and click „OK“. 4. In the next

12 5. As fourth Step we can change the thickness of the coating. We leave it on 100% and click „OK“. 100% means Remark: This setting ca

13 Now the window for the color option appears. The available basic colors of the currently loaded assortment („Flexo/gravure printing incl. Col

14 7. Now the window of the formulation options appears. Deactivate the option „Show only the best formula with 1, 2, 3 and 4 components“. 8

15 The formula appears only in the main window: You are not forced to use the first formula. Usually you can choose the second or the third,

16 9. Click on „Formula → Spectra“ in the toolbar. In the window that appears there are drafts and formulas compared in different displays.

17 Comparison of draft and formula on white and black for three different illuminants: This aspect gives you a visual impression of the color

18 Saving of the color formula: 10. In the toolbar, click on „Formula → Save“. 11. Put in the name “brown” as formula name into the window

19 Create a correction 1. Please load the earlier saved formula „brown“. Click therefore on the symbol „Formula → load“. 2. I

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20 After loading the formula please click on the symbol „Formulating → adjustment formula“. In the appearing color selection window the colors o

21 4. In the next step you have to enter the current mixture. In practice it’s normally realized by measuring the mixed and printed basic formu

22 6. After the calculation the window „formula choice“ appears. Click on the downwards-arrow to open the formula list. As we can see, there wa

23 The adjustment of the formula is shown well-arranged: 8. By activating „Total color quantity“ the color quantity becomes editable. Redu

24 In the main window you can see the adjustment quantities in the second row on the right side next to the original quantities. The addition

25 After adding the adjustment the total of the color quantity is 100 again, like we had set in the window „Formula Adjustment“ earlier. Re

26 10. Save the adjusted formula by clicking the symbol „Formula → Save“. 11. Keep the formula name „Brown“ in the appearing window and click o

27 Create an ink leftover 1. Menu „Database“ → „Ink leftovers 2. Click in the window „ Define ink leftover “ → „New“

28 3. In the third step you will be asked to define the ink leftover: In practice there would be measured only a printed ink leftover. Inste

29 5. Please define the substrate in the next step. Choose „Substrate of the current assortment“ and click on „OK“. Remark: In the practi

3 Remarks 1. In this description you’ll find an overview about the most important functions of the InkFormulation 5.1. 2.

30 6. Please enter „Ink leftover brown“ into the window „Prepare color“. 7. In the field „Available quantity“, please enter „25“ and „kg“ as u

31 Formulate with an ink leftover We recalculate the formula „Brown“ by involving the just defined ink leftover. First of all, load the

32 4. In the next step you see the window „Choice of color“. On the right side of the window the basic colors of the formula as well as the ink

33 6. In the window „Color choice“ please click on the downwards-arrow. As you can see in this case there were only 4 formulas calculated.

34 We see that the maximum quantity of the ink leftover was attached. This is because this brown matches well to the brown color draft. 8. T

35 11. Reopen the window of the ink leftover database (Menu: „Database“ → „Ink leftovers“). Here we can see that the original stock of „25“ was

36 Enter a formula by hand This function enables the creation of existing formulas into the InkFormulation. 1. Menu: Formula → „

37 3. By double-clicking the window „ColorNet“ on the concentration stage of 55% of the assortment color „Orange“ in „InkFormulation“ → „Defaul

38 In the window „Entry of the formula“ above on the right side the color shade appears with the corresponding color data under “Formula measure

39 The formula appears in the main window.

4 Description of the toolbar Basic Formula Create a new formula Adjustment Formula Adjust an existing formul

40 Create a new formula folder We save the just created formula in a new formula folder. Therefore we have to create a folder first

41 5. Mark the „Test formula folder“ in the window „Choose current folder“ and click on „Choose“. 6. Over the button „OK“ the formula will be

42 Search a formula: by name This research helps to find formulas again. 1. Click on the symbol „Formula → Load“. The window “Data

43 4. The window stays empty, no formula found. To change the folder please click on the button “Folder” below on the left side or change the f

44 Search a formula: by smallest dE* This kind of searching is used before formulating to find formulas which are similar to the formu

45 6. The program now changes to the formula database and lists all existing formulas. In this list is chromatically arranged and begins wit

46 7. Click on the button „Search“ and in the window „Show formulas of following folder“ on „All Folders“. 8. The search criteria were expa

47 Create a substrate If you often use a constant substrate you have the option to save it in the database. Instead of measurin

48 4. Choose the option “coated” for the „Quality of the substrate“ 5. In practice you would measure the substrate. For our exercise we load

49 8. Finalize the entry for the substrate by clicking on „OK“. The new substrate appears in a list together with the remaining substrates.

5 eFormulation Send the formulations via e-mail SPM Connection to the measuring device Switch to ColorQuality Load of the Co

50 Back-up a database 1. Menu: „File“ → „Database“ → „Save“ 2. To simplify matters we safe the backup on the desktop. Keep the

51 Restore a database 1. Menu „File“ → „Database“ → „Restore“. 2. Mark the just saved backup „dbif.ifbx“ and click on „Open“.

52 Settings: General 1. Menu: → „Settings“ → „General“ a. Standard measuring conditions: normally analog like the display bel

53 Settings: Formulation 1. Menu: „Settings“ → „Formulation“ a. Adjustment of the formula: In „Addition-Mode“ the adjustment qu

54 Settings: Display 1. Menu: „Settings“ → „Display“ a. Formula edition: „Fix number of decimal“: The number of the digits a

55 Settings Batching systems 1. Menu: „Settings“ → „Batching system“ In this window you can define the connection to the dosing a

56 4. In this window you can fix the formula edition and the order of the dosing. 5. Click on „Setup“. Indicate the initial path for the formu

57 Settings: SPM 1. Menu: „Settings“ → „SPM“ In this window you can search and calibrate a connected spectrophotometer. Furt

6 Set measuring conditions General settings 1. Menu settings → General 2. Please adopt the stored measuring settings in the win

7 Display of settings 1. Menu: "Settings" > "Display" 2. Please adopt the given settings in the window „Display

8 Loading of assortment 1. Click on the up-arrow on the left side of ”assortment” 2. Please choose „Flexo/Gravure incl. colorant eleme

9 Create a basic formula 1. Click on the symbol ”formulate” → ”Basic formula“ 2. Firstly the guideline color has to be defin