Each color bar resource consists of a name, artwork, spectrophotometer, and target L*a*b* values per color patch, based on a specified characterization standard.

Component compatibility

When you configure the settings for a new color bar, the software ensures that you make compatible choices:

1. After naming the new color bar, you select the spectrophotometer and filter or measurement condition.
2. Your Spectrophotometerselection filters the list of available artwork.
3. Your Artworkselection then filters the available characterization standards.
4. Selecting a Characterization Standardautomatically calculates the Target L*a*b* values.

Artwork choices and associated options

Kodak Proofing Software provides a selection of default artwork and a user-defined artwork option.

Terminology note: In the color bar Artwork list, the word default indicates preinstalled artwork.

Default color bar artwork

This general artwork is available for all spectrophotometers and has 23 patches in a single row. The characterization standard and targets can be based on one of the following options:

• A snapshot of the next reading
• A custom standard with manually provided L*a*b* target values
• A selected ICC profile, which calculates the target L*a*b* values for the basic 23 patches, which include process solids, tints, and overprints plus substrate

Default industry-standard artwork

The software includes a selection of default artwork created by industry-standards organizations.

• Default 3DAP—Digital Data Delivery for Australian Publications artwork with 72 patches in 3 rows; available for SpectroScan, i1iSis, i1iSis XL, and first and second-generation i1 and i1iO spectrophotometers
• Default Fograartwork with 2 rows of patches. The following additional artwork for the Fogra version 3.0 standard is also available:
  • Default Fogra V3—3 rows of patches
  • Default Fogra V3b—3 rows of smaller patches
  • Fogra MKZ1—1 row of patches, for inline spectrophotometers
  • Fogra MKZ3—3 rows of patches, for inline spectrophotometers
• Default IDEAlliance 2013—GRACoL 2013 (CGATS 21-2, CRPC-6) artwork with 84 patches in 3 rows; available for first and second-generation i1 and i1iO spectrophotometers and inline spectrophotometers
• Default IDEAlliance—original GRACoL artwork with 54 patches in 2 rows, available for the same spectrophotometers as for IDEAlliance 2013.
• Default JPMA—Japan Printing Manufacturers Association standard artwork; available for SpectroScan spectrophotometers and first and second-generation i1 and i1iO spectrophotometers that are either UV-filtered or M1/M2 capable.

User-defined artwork

When you select user defined artwork for a new color bar, the resource stores only a placeholder for the actual artwork. This artwork has a default of 23 patches in a single row, which you can edit. You can create a custom artwork file using software such as Adobe Illustrator, or you can obtain artwork from an industry-standards organization.

The characterization standard and targets for a user-defined color bar can be based on one of the following options:

• A snapshot of the next reading
• A custom standard with manually provided L*a*b* target values
• A selected ICC profile, which calculates the target L*a*b* values for the basic 23 patches, which include process solids, tints, and overprints plus substrate

After setting up a hot folder for color-managing a new color bar resource, you input the artwork file. The placeholder is automatically replaced by the new artwork.

Target values

Target L*a*b* values for the color bar patches can be based on a proofing standard such as FOGRA or on an ICC profile that corresponds to the selected default industry-standard artwork.

If you manually provide the target L*a*b* values or if you edit the autocalculated values, the selected characterization standard changes to custom. You can optionally save your custom values to a new characterization standard name for this color bar.

Note: For profile-based color bars, you may need to first import and enable the desired source ICC profile. Kodak provides downloadable installers that you can use to add a selection of common source profiles. You can also import custom profiles created in other software.