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Hello All!

My manager requires an accurate breakdown of ink usage PER printing plate. I know that PitStop can show a total coverage but this information is not sufficient.

Is there any way that I can produce a report from a supplied PDF that shows the % of ink (CMYK + Pantones) required to reproduce the PDF on press? I have looked at purchasing PressPerCent - Mac based app - but would prefer to stay within PitStop if at all possible?

Man thanks.

If you want accuracy, you should get it from your workflow that generates plates.
Workflows typically have printing/plating curves that will change amount of ink per separation, sometimes drastically compared to PDF.
You might even run certain amount of GCR/UCR in your workflow which will drastically change ink coverage.

If you get this information ahead of the workflow from Pitstop, I am afraid information will not be that accurate, unless you know for a fact that no other changes happen in the workflow after the Pitstop report.
Just my 2 cents.

PitStop has an 'ink usage' report that will give you the amount of ink per separation.
But as stated you'll have to allow a +/- tolerance for press and printing method.

If you open up a preflight profile it's in 'General', under 'Preflight Report' and it's the 'inks' option.
It's off by default.

It gives you a per page and total document value.

Many thanks for the replies.

Zoranj: The ink coverage report will be used to give an estimate cost to clients at the proofing stage prior to print.

abailescollins: I will have as look at this now.

Thanks again for the speedy replies!

As mentioned by Zoranj, the report can never be completely accurate at proof stage as there are so many variables; press, substrate, curve etc. and in our particular line of work we show many none print elements at on the PDF - foiling, perforations, labels as spot inks - but our estimator is happy that this will give him an “indication” of ink usage.

Have a good weekend people.

Hi
I'm really could use this for the same reasons but am unable to find this action.
Is there any chance you could throw on some screenshots of where EXACTLY I could get to this action.
Using Acrobat Pro DC now and do not see Preflight report under General in actions.

Please.
Thank you.

jdold wrote: ↑Tue Jan 21, 2020 10:32 pm Hi
I'm really could use this for the same reasons but am unable to find this action.
Is there any chance you could throw on some screenshots of where EXACTLY I could get to this action.
Using Acrobat Pro DC now and do not see Preflight report under General in actions.

Please.
Thank you.

It's not an action, it's a preflight option, look in preflight profiles, not actions.

I've attached the preflight to get ink stat's.
If you want the most accurate results, as mentioned you need the PDF to be as close to the Ripped file as
possible. I have this running with some customers who Rip the file with a color server in switch then get the
ink stats.
Malcolm

Awesome. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.
Thank you both for the quick responses.