In this section you will learn how to use the PRINERGY Portal: Ink Analytics Service - Ink Estimator
PRINERGY Portal: Ink Analytics Service enables you to estimate ink requirements for upcoming jobs, and compare estimated ink usage to actual ink usage after a job has been completed. Tracking and comparison of ink usage allows you to adjust ink usage factors for more accurate estimates, and increased accuracy of estimations and on-going tracking enables you to better manage ink inventories and costs.
Once configured, Ink Analytics works in the background as you output single pages/artworks and impositions/layouts to VPS proofs or final TIFF output during a normal prepress workflow. Color separation area coverage and specific job parameters are automatically uploaded to Prinergy Cloud. Then, based on the Print Condition specified for the job, or for specific impositions, Ink Analytics calculates the estimated ink usage.
A Print Condition is a unique set of resources and factors (such as press, substrate, ink type, number of impressions and make-ready waste) which contribute to unique ink consumption for each color in the job, as characterized by different Mileage Factors (Ink Usage factors) assigned to the inks in the Print Condition.
Once a Print Condition is assigned to a new job, and the number of impressions and make-ready are entered, Ink Analytics will automatically calculate total ink requirements for the job, based on the ink coverage (%) of each page/artwork or imposition/layout.
PRINERGY Portal: Ink Analytics: Ink Estimator comes in two forms:
- Per Page toolset - allows you to estimate based on the number of "ups" for single page/artwork within PRINERGY jobs against defined Print Conditions
- Per Imposition toolset - allows you to estimate impositions or signatures within PRINERGY jobs against defined Print Conditions
Prior to the use of this, be sure that you have reviewed the following components:
- Creating Resources Tab
- Defined Print Conditions
- Ink Estimator: PRINERGY