Verify Tool

Curve+'s Verify Tool calculates G7 conformance according to the most up-to-date IDEAlliance specifications and returns the results in a clear visual format.

Whether you're looking for G7 Grayscale, G7 Targeted, or G7 ColorSpace compliance, or simply wanting to verify a Color Proof, the Verify Tool summarizes your results with a clear PASS / FAIL badge.

Each color patch used is graphically displayed in comparison to the reference color. Any patches missing from your target will clearly show up in the display.

And if you want SCCA-based (Substrate-Corrected Colorimetric Aims) calculations, Verify can easily handle it, along with subtle G7 differences such as Custom Gray balance.

In short, the Verify Tool gives you confidence in your G7 / G7+ conformance while remaining easy and flexible to use.

Visual

• Clear indication of missing target patches -->
• Failure summary and pointers

Flexible

• Combine multiple targets' patches to calculate compliance
• Supports new IT8.7/5 (TC1617) target
• Supports any target or combination of targets containing the required patches, in any layout or order

Fast

• Click 'New', measure, done

Accurate

• Fully compliant to 2024 G7+ Master Certification and 2019 G7 Master Certification requirements

Reliable

• Set up Reference presets for error-free operator use

G7 Master (2019) Compliance

Including optional SCCA, Custom Gray and Proof / Production Tolerances as well as Screen and Flexo alternates

G7 Grayscale / G7+ Grayscale

• Tonality (weighted ΔL* for K and CMY and ΔTVI for G7+) and Gray Balance (weighted ΔCh for CMY)

G7 Targeted

• G7 Grayscale metrics
• Substrate, CMYK and RGB Solids

G7 ColorSpace

• G7 Targeted metrics
• Avg ΔE 2000 and 95th Percentile over the entire IT8.7/4 target

Basic Color Proof

For when you simply want to Verify a proof. Any target is supported.

BLEND Tool

(available with the Complete license level)

The BLEND tool is a group of functions to combine, massage and process color measurements so you can build the best ICC profiles possible (among other things).

Features include:

White Point Adaptation

Alter the white point of your measurements using SCCA-like calculations.

Smoothing & Smart Averaging

The same technology that powers Curve's VPR function can be applied to spectral measurement data. This multi-dimensional smoothing function is a very effective method of improving measurements by minimizing measurement noise and other sources of error that lower ICC profile quality. BLEND also provides multiple methods of averaging different measurements together - mean, median, and weighted mean.

Apply Curves

Curves created in the CALIBRATE Tool can be applied to measurement sets for Virtual Press Run (VPR) simulation. This function is also available in the CALIBRATE Tool itself.

Measuring

(included with all three Curve+ Tools)

Powerful measurement tools are integrated into Curve+ and available within each tool.

I1 Pro, iO, iSis, eXact, KM FD-9, Barbieri Spectro LFP and Techkon SpectroDens instruments are supported

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One-Run Hybrid Target Function

• enabled with Calibrate license

• available within Curve+'s Calibration Tool for any selected calibration.

One Target. OneRun.

OneRun target combines P2P and profiling targets into one; saving press sheet room and aiding G7 calibration of smaller presses.

The OneRun target, in combination with Curve+'s VPR (Virtual Press Run) module, makes it possible to calibrate a press to G7 using multiple papers, and make profiles for the press - all in one run .

The beauty here is that you only have to print one target, on one press run to do all this. Press calibration and profiling can't get much easier than this!

Here's how it works: To save on space, time and reduce measurement error, we've created new, hybrid targets that combine the P2P target with IT8 and other profiling targets. Redundant patches have been removed and the resulting target is smaller and easier to place on a variety of printing forms.

Your measurements of this single target, printed on all your papers, are fed into Curve+. The software extracts the individual targets from the OneRun target using the P2P patches for curve calculation and the IT8 patches for VPR curving.

All of your papers + one target = OneRun.

Other OneRun targets incorporating alternate profiling targets are also available. Contact support (at) chromix.com for more information.

G7 Certified System

On December 6, 2010, Curve2 was granted G7 Certified System status from IDEAlliance . All Curve versions since continue to achieve this important certification.

To download the Application Data Sheet (ADS)

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Supported Instruments

• X-Rite
  • i1 Pro 1&2
  • i1 Pro 3 & 3 Plus
  • iO 1&2 &3
  • iSis 1&2
  • eXact and eXact Scan (USB or Bluetooth)
• Barbieri
  • Spectro LFP (USB)
  • Spectro LFPqb (USB or Ethernet)
• Konica Minolta MYIRO-9 (FD-9) (USB or Ethernet)
• Techkon SpectroDens (USB or Wifi - Wifi and Windows access require TDservice app in Windows computer or VM)
• Color Sentinel CSS-110 (Win only, USB or Bluetooth)

Allows full access to instrument capabilities including M0, M1, M2, M3 filtering, Reflective / Transmissive scans, Aperture Control and multiple measurements per patch (all depending on instrument features, of course)

MemoryScan (iO, LFP, MYIRO-9)

CHROMiX was the first to offer the innovative MemoryScan function (in June 2016) which recalls the position of prior targets for speedy multi-target scanning on iO, LFP/qb and MYIRO-9.

Use heavy tape (iO and LFP) to mark target positions and measuring becomes as fast as placing a trimmed target and hitting the space bar!

Target Rotating (measure in any orientation)

Sometimes rotating a target 90 or 180 degrees makes scanning much easier:

• Hand-held instruments like i1Pro, eXact and SpectroDens are often easier to use across a target in a specific direction
• Sheet scanners like the iSis and MYIRO-9 often scan targets in the portrait orientation but table scanners like the iO and LFP need them in landscape.
• The MYIRO-9 needs a target to have a sizable border on its trailing edge - feeding it an iSis target 'upside down' often works better.
• Some heatmap-style targets will only fit into a scanner rotated 90 degrees from the direction it passed through the printer

Flexible Connections

At CHROMiX we like to get along with others and our software shows it.

Our software typically won't connect to an instrument until the measurement process begins. It's also simple to disconnect from instruments and leave the software running. This makes it easy to use instruments in other software while still running our apps. This seems like reasonable basic behavior though you'll be surprised to find how many other applications aren't this friendly.

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