Using Kodak Customized Color Analysis to Develop Standard Separation Curves

Kodak's Customized Color analysis program, which takes spectrophotometric readings from a printed test object, calculates press performance data, ink color measurements, and separation curves. The program was applied to the printed results of 26 U.S. publication printers involved in the 1983 Graphic Communications Print Properties test, and average curve values and aim points were derived. The derived separation curves, when printed, exhibited an improvement in tone reproduction over the previously used separation aim points.