Overview
PRIMA ColorWare is an editorial and advertising tool to help optimize the use of color in a product. It’s like having a press expert on your desktop.

Answers the question – ‘ Where can I put color?’

Highlights the best pages for additional color.

Indicates how difficult it will be to produce a product.

Takes into account unserviceable parts of the press.

Takes into account production running rules.

 

Specifying a Product
Simple drop-down menus allow the user to easily and quickly select the press, input the number of sections, specify straight/collect and specify which set of penalties to apply.Entering Product Specifications

Color is added to the product by clicking the color buttons at the top of the screen. In the case of a collect run, collect pairs of pages are automatically indicated. At this stage, the user can specify where to fix fly sheets or disallow them from certain pages, such as front and back. The user can also set panoramic double-trucks and center page spreads. The product specification can be saved for future use. Also from this window the user can input comments for each page that will be printed out. For example, you may wish to include an advertiser’s name or color information for editorial.

PRIMA ColorWare is configured to know exactly what your presses can do and how the production manager likes to run them. All you need to do is to enter the size of the product you intend to produce via the input screen below.

Once a product has been entered – here we have a 2 section broadsheet – ColorWare calculates which pages could have color, and highlights them with a green box.
In the example above, it is possible to have color on any page but not necessarily every page.

The user can then select a page to put color on, by clicking the page on the input screen.

ColorWare will then calculate the pages where color is still available and also the pages where color can best be placed. The example above still allows color on all pages, but recommends the pages highlighted in blue since they will be on a web path that has already been selected.

As more pages are selected for color, it will eventually become impossible to put color on certain other pages. Those pages are shown below as unframed white boxes.

As color pages are selected or changed, ColorWare provides a guide to how difficult the run will be.

PRIMA ColorWare gives you all the press hall information you need to produce better-planned products without the need to continually refer to the production staff.

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