User-defined color bar with custom profile-based targets (with white flood)

Set up the Certified Process for Color Confirmation to use a color bar placeholder with a custom profile created by you.

Color bar

You will create a color bar using the user-defined color bar placeholder provided with Kodak Proofing Software.

You can create the artwork for the placeholder, or you can use artwork created by an industry-standards organization. Kodak Proofing Software adds the artwork to the placeholder when you color-manage the color bar during the setup of the Certified Process for Color Confirmation.

Profile

The profile will be a custom profile. Custom profiles are created by you. You must use Proofer Administrator to sign these profiles before you use the profiles with the Certified Process for Color Confirmation. In Proofer Administrator, on the ICC Profiles tab, the origin of these profiles is Custom.

Procedure

1. Import an ICC profile.
2. Sign custom profiles to prepare them for use with Certified Process for Color Confirmation.
3. Create a user-defined color bar for white flood.
4. Create a layout for Color Confirmation that identifies the spectrophotometer and filter that you will use to measure the color bar, and select a color bar.
5. Create user libraries for white ink.
6. Set up hot folders or virtual printers for color bar artwork that includes white flood.
7. Submit a PDF file of the color bar artwork to the workflow software for color management to complete the setup of the color bar. 
8. Use the Measurement wizard to measure the color bar and capture the target L*a*b* values for the color bar.