With just five months using the software, the prepress department at Schumann now routinely employs Alwan CMYK Optimizer to check and handle more than 1,000 pages a day. The key is the Delta E feature unique to CMYK Optimizer." It removes contaminants, delivers vibrant colors and reproduces, for example, corporate colors, correctly and automatically. Using GCR, Alwan takes over-inked files down to 310 or 290 density, for nice coverage on the press. It allows us to take down the DMax without causing color shifts. "Alwan CMYK Optimizer automatically catches these situations," he explains. We would manually have to take the files back, call the customer, and then manually modify the PDF. He explains, "In the past we would have periodic press shutdowns on a regular basis because of over-saturated files from designers at 400% density. "Frankly, we were astounded by the results we achieved," Eilenfeldt says.Īlwan CMYK Optimizer Results in Several Positive Changes The prospect of CMYK Optimizer standardizing and optimizing customer-supplied files, generating more easily reproducible proofs, and improving printability on the press was the real appeal." Says Schumann, "We thought the ink savings could be a nice bonus, but decided to set that aside and give it a try for its other advantages. And because it solves nearly all set-off problems due to high ink weights, it can deliver the additional advantage of ink savings as high as 30%.Įver interested in new ways to reduce costs and enhance productivity, Jack Schumann and his prepress manager, Kent Eilenfeldt, decided to give the software a try.and they have not looked back since. It allows printers to control and improve the printability of the files they receive from their customers by optimizing their separations for the destination process, press, and/or paper. Alwan CMYK Optimizer from Alwan Color Expertise provides preflight, standardization and optimization for CMYK separations and data. In the spring of 2007, Randall Peters, president and CEO of system supplier La Crosse Litho Supply, LLC of Sussex, WI, introduced Schumann to a color management product which he said had the potential to deliver considerable savings on ink. Recently taking its place as a key component in the Wisconsin company's technology and standards repertoire is CMYK Optimizer from Alwan Color Expertise. Lyon, MaSchumann Printers, Inc., a high-volume web press printer specializing in production of special-interest publications, has benefitted greatly from a proactive strategy of putting in place the right equipment, experience, team members, technology, and standards - to streamline its production process while keeping costs competitive and ensuring customer satisfaction.
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