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Intro » Onboarding - Getting Started » Quick Start Guide - Printer G7 Check and GRACoL Targeting

January 18, 2023

Quick Start Guide - Printer G7 Check and GRACoL Targeting

This guide will help you to configureChromaChecker for your organization's quality control program. Keep in mind that ChromaChecker supports any control strip, spot color placeholders, and industry-standard data files so determining your requirements is important. You will find that ChromaChecker is easy to use, yet provides a sophisticated Color Conformance Platform.

Introduction

Your ChromaChecker Color Conformance Platform generates reports on the precision and accuracy of your printing devices. The Print Inspector allows you to check the press before, during, and after the print run, depending on the printer being used.

ChromaChecker Quick Start instructions allow you to connect your printing devices to the ChromaChecker cloud during normal production. ChromaChecker works with any color bar and can report pass-fail compliance based on any parameters.

Specification for Control Strip

The CC84 target is in the Capture Inspector and can be downloaded in PDF format. The Color target has to be at least 80 patches, and the G7 Production patches need to be present: solid CMYK, 25, 50, 75% tints for CMYK, RGB overprints, 25, 19, 19, 0 and 50, 40, 40, 0 and 75, 66, 66, 0, and 100,100,100, 0 and Paperwhite 0, 0, 0, 0

Note: ChromaChecker supports any Control Strip layout and virtually any measurement instrument. The CC84 target is a streamlined format that is quickly scanned while providing all the patches required for an accurate E-Factor and can be used to iterate G7 Curves eliminating the need for dedicated press runs. This makes it an ideal control strip for an initial evaluation of your current environment.

CC84 3-Rows and CC84 Single-Row

ChromaChecker supports any control strip and also can easily create new control strips that include placeholders for spot color patches enabling the identification of named spot colors in the workflow. For printing presses that have predefined control strips, that control strip can be used as a starting point. That automated ingestion process can be complemented with a CC84 for more advanced quality control and the iteration of G7 curves without a dedicated press run.

What you need to collect data: Data Collection Choices

The type of instrument will identify the best method for uploading data as part of a quality control check. These include Manual Upload, CC Capture, CC Uploader, and direct API interfaces. ChromaChecker supports industry-standard files so you may be able to easily upload using your existing scanning method. Data files can be tested by manually uploading a file using Print Inspector.

Quick Start – Using the ChromaChecker CC84 Control Strip -

Use the Step-By-Step

Identify Your Instrumentation	Step 1 Add Printers	Step 2 Define Users	Step 3 Download & install Software
	Adding New Printing Devices	Skip If using Default Operator Login credentials	CC Capture Windows 10 • Mac OS
	Updating Printers Enter Serial Number	1) Add the User 2) Assign a Printing Device to the User	CC Uploader Windows 10 • Mac OS

Identify Your Instrumentation

Step 1

Add Printers

Step 2

Define Users

Step 3

Download & install Software

Adding New Printing Devices

Skip If using

Default Operator Login credentials

Enter Serial Number

2) Assign a Printing Device to the User

CC Uploader

Windows 10 • Mac OS

Step By Step for X-Rite and Techkon

Launch Capture Software
Identify the instrument to be used with the Capture software by selecting menu option -tools/connect
Enter organization “Your Organization Name” from when you registered
Log in – using "Default User" sent via email when registering or staff added to Accountability Inspector
Select the Printer and Track or use the default selection
Select the Template CC84 target
Capture provides a Step-By-Step on the screen. The software will guide you through the scanning process.

Please refer to the additional information below to familiarize yourself with the operation of the instruments and software.

Step By Step for Spot Check with NIX Spectro 2 or Spectro 1 Bridge

Launch Capture Software
Identify the instrument to be used with the Capture software
Enter organization “Your Organization Name” from when you registered
Log in – using "Default User" sent via email when registering or when you added it to Accountability Inspector/Staff
Select the Quick Check icon
Follow the instructions on the screen to calibrate the instrument

Additional Support

Ask Your Expert - Submit a job ticket and provide access to our tech support team
Contact Your Coach - If you have the Coaching Support service, contact your coach for a remote session or to update your roadmap.
Log into E-Learning System

PDFs

Video

This tutorial shows you how easy it is to measure color bars using Chromachecker Capture software using an i1 instrument. ChromaChecker supports all color bars, all presses, and all instruments making it the optimal system for color quality control checking, correction, and reporting.
The starter kit provides the target and white/black backing for ensuring the instrumentation is ISO compliant and the environment is within manufactures specifications. Also included in the kit is an E-Factor printed exercise for establishing an appropriate tolerance for acceptable color shift for your production environment.
This tutorial demonstrates how to configure ChromaChecker Uploader to use ChromaChecker Print Inspector for analysis
This tutorial covers the use of Chromachecker Capture to operate an x-Rite iSis spectrophotometer.
Chromachecker empowers the entire organization by communicating an Expectation Fator (E-Factor) reporting the consistency of the printing process.
This tutorial shows how to use a barcode to automatically select the print condition and printing device that was used to produce the output being read by the iSis spectrophotometer. This automates the process of a quality check to simply placing the leading edge of the output in the iSis instrument to start the identification of the file and scanning of the control strip.
This tutorial shows how to work with the Image Exercise to set color match expectations. E-Factor is used to evaluate process colors and the amount of color shift from one sample to another. This uses the Cumulative Relative Frequency of the 95th percentile Delta E.
ChromaChecker is the industry-first Color Conformance Platform
which enables a printer to establish their own capabilities and customer
expectations and assess if the output device can meet their expectations. It is
compatible with virtually any software that a printer is already using at
proof and press, so operators don’t have to change the way they work.
This tutorial shows you how easy it is to measure a control trip using a Techkon handheld instrument using ChromaChecker Capture. Using a CC84 target you can quickly scan a color control strip that can be used to iterate a G7 curve.