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Professional ROOM (Rip Once Output Many) Contract Proofing Solution, showing actual screened dots.

Serendipity Blackmagic makes proofs from ripped files. Place Serendipity Blackmagic on your network and instantly create contract quality proofs from any RIP on any printer with no changes to your workflow.

Serendipity Blackmagic version 3 includes completely new features as well as improvements on old features. The features which created the most excitement at recent trade shows are described below. Click on the feature thumbnail images to see a full resolution JPEG screen capture related to that feature.

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Ink Keys

Softproof has an Ink key viewer which allows rapid press setup without having to export a CIP3 / CIP4 file.

FlipBook

The FlipBook application provides a convenient way of viewing publications. Select FlipBook's "View 3D" option and you can literally flip through the publication. The publication can then be exported as PDF or QuickTime movie.

view the new FlipBook

Virtual Loupe

The SoftProof application has a virtual loupe which displays the job at 100% wherever it is positioned.

Monitor Calibration		Scan & Print
	Use the MonitorCalibrator and any supported spectrophotometer to calibrate your monitor and create monitor ICC profiles which can be used in Blackmagic for dramatically improved colour accuracy.	Images can be scanned in and submitted for processing using the TWAIN Acquire function in SoftProof.

Duplexing

Use any double-sided Postscript[tm] or PCL5 compatible printer to create full-colour or black-and-white "dummies" of your books. An intuitive user interface lets you select the jobs you wish to deimpose, assign a deimpostion signature to each and then let Serendipity Blackmagic do the rest for you. No folding and no cutting required.

Impositions can be from Dynastrip, Krause, JDF and Preps

Clustering

Especially useful for high-volume production and quick turn-around sites, the new clustering feature will let you use more than one computer to process jobs. A master machine will determine how jobs are distributed across a cluster of networked Serendipity Blackmagic slaves so you never miss your deadlines again.

Plate Paint Modes

Real life inks often have characteristics which are difficult to simulate digitally. The new Plate Paint Modes are a step towards more realistic simulation. A plate can be assigned any one of these paint modes:

Overprint, traditional mixing of channels
Knockout, all channels of the top plate dominate those of the plates bellow it
Primer, white ink simulation
Opaque, variable opacity to simulate metallic or other special inks

Soft Proofing

High-resolution on-screen viewing is now supported. View at the nominated output resolution without any restrictions. Turn plates on or off and even assign colours to plates on the fly to preview all the new plate paint modes.

You can even run automatic colour replacement sets to create on-screen blue-line previews for checking trapping features.

Re-written & Re-designed Serendipity Client

We phased out the Java[tm] user interface in favour of a completely re-written and re-designed new native interface. This means that workstation resources are being used more efficiently resulting in a much faster user interface with highly efficient memory usage. While at it, we took advantage of the opportunity to add many new features our users have been asking for as well as some we thought you would appreciate:

Colorimetric instruments can be used on any workstation running the Serendipity Client. Example shows the included Spectrophotometer and Densitometer applications.

All lists can have their contents filtered. Example shows list contents filtered on the word "impo".

Multiple work surfaces on the same window. Surfaces can be customised by the user. The example shows a surface set up with output queue monitoring modules.

Multiple work surfaces on the same window. Surfaces can be customised by the user. The example shows a surface set up with source RIP monitoring modules.

Comprehensive and integrated configuration editor. The example shows the 3 settings sections of the Pagesetup Pool editor. Any datatype may be selected for editing from the same window.

New archiving utility. Example shows all items from the database added to the archive in a few seconds. Very memory efficient too!

Edit and create any configuration item from anywhere it gets used directly. The example shows how to edit the pagesetup used by a job directly from the QueueManager.

Instant messaging application for communicating with other Serendipity Clients connected to the same server.

Who needs it?
Any printer using CtP producing quality work which needs a sign-off proof. Particularly suited to multiple spot colour work such as labels and packaging.
What does it provide?