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It can also export a PPF file from a PDF or TIFF file of the job.

Since then PressPerCent evolved to include more features that customers required such as support for the job format of dozens press types and models, total ink area calculations, spot color preview, automatic job processing and flexible press configurations.

At the same time it tries to support older Macintosh hardware and OS versions as long as possible.

The result is adjusted with user defined calibration curves for specific press models or inkpaper combinations and could be used as ink zone (ink duct) settings for the press.

These settings could be displayed on screen, printed out on paper or exported to variety of file formats.

This can improve make-ready times and reduce paper and ink waste.

The accuracy of pre-settings depends on press conditions and the zone curves calibration quality.

Knowing this value helps estimate the amount of ink required to print the job.

This feature would also be beneficial to packaging printers with flexographic equipment (to calculate amount of Pantone inks for the job) or even to digital printers (to quote the price based on a toner consumption).

Some presses use plain text files that are easily readable and understood by people.

Others use binary data that requires more efforts to interpret it.

Few press consoles may even show the press operator a preview images of the job prepared by the pre-setting software.

Despite these differences, all press file formats convey the same common information: ink keys and ink feed (ink sweep) settings for each unit of the press or ink zone area calculations performed by a plate scanner.

The export plug-ins are small modules that save common information prepared by PressPerCent in a specific file format understood by this or that press console.

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This approach extends support for various presses without constantly modifying the application for each press or overloading it with code and features other users will not need.

Just add to the application the plug-in for your press from optional plug-ins set.

If you cannot find your press in the plug-ins set or you need a different plug-in version, please contact us and we will try to create a new plug-in for you.

For PostScript and PDF jobs with spot colors we suggest that you use pre-separated files to avoid possible problems with color separation.

The older PPF format well defined back in 90s already delivers certain benefits today.

The PPF format is more simple and hardware independent than JDF.

The PPF file created by the prepress system does not contain actual ink key settings or press unit specific information (as JDF may have).

It has only a low resolution image of the plate that will be processed into ink keys by some pre-setting tool or advanced press console.

Due to the simplicity and fewer steps required to implement, the support for the PPF format was included into the products by almost every prepress RIP vendor and many printing press manufacturers.

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