Unless you are in an unusual situation there is no need to linearize your plates before creating curves (G7 or otherwise). Target and Current are presswork curves - not plate curves.Ĭalibration curves is the curve that will be applied to the plate. In short: Target curve is what you want, Current curve is what you're getting, and Calibration curve is what Harmony will create. You can find further details from target curve represents the tonal or dot gain characteristic of the printing that you want to match.Ī current curve represents the tonal value or dot gain characteristic of your current printing.Ī derived calibration curve is what Harmony creates from your desired printing tonal or dot gain target and current tonal value or dot gain characteristic of your printing. And given that there are a growing number of cloud-based analytics, and even MIS, it seems inevitable that more printers will look to run workflow software as a service. Kodak already operates Prinergy Cloud, which includes various analytics services so this sounds like an obvious next step. We have an excellent, long standing partnership with Kodak and utilizing Prinergy VME with Managed Services gives us unprecedented data security and a much better ROI compared to an on premises server environment.” When it was time to replace our existing server infrastructure, Kodak proposed we switch to Prinergy VME with Managed Services. In addition, Wilco Printing & Binding, based in the Netherlands, has just become the first European customer. William Schuring, Wilco’s COO, commented: “Working in the cloud is the future. However, Kodak has tested the system in North America and says there are several customers using it for live production. Nonetheless, a well-resourced system such as Azure will probably offer a high degree of robustness than most printers can realistically maintain though naturally Kodak has not included any details of the cost of this approach. The downside of course is that they lose control over their IT assets. The obvious advantage is that this allows printers to cut back on the cost of investing and maintaining in their IT infrastructure.

This includes data backups, which can be distributed across several data centres for peace of mind.

Kodak will use Microsoft Azure to host the system, taking responsibility for system administration, 24-hour security and monitoring, upgrades and problem resolution. From left: Jim Continenza, Executive Chairman of Eastman Kodak, William Schuring, Chief Operating Officer of Wilco Printing & Binding, and Todd Bigger, President of Kodak’s Software Division. Kodak is now offering its Prinergy prepress workflow as a managed software option, hosted by Kodak, with the release of the new Prinergy VME, or Virtual Machine Environment.

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