Drop your artwork PDF — dimensions and ink coverage are read automatically. Enter job details to calculate ink needed per colour.
Artwork PDF
Drop your artwork PDF here
Best: the approved proof or artwork PDF. A distorted plate file works too: type its distortion % under Print Dimensions.
Analysing PDF — reading separations…
Print Dimensions — from PDF
Width
—mm
Height (Repeat)
—mm
Area / repeat
—cm²
Drop a PDF above and dimensions will fill in automatically. If no PDF, enter dimensions manually below.
A plate file is shrunk around the cylinder so it stretches back on press. Type the % from the plate legend (often about 2 to 3%) and the repeat is put back to true size. Coverage % is not affected.
Ink Coverage per Colour
Drop a PDF above to auto-detect ink separations and coverage %.
Colours appear here once detected. You can also add them manually below.
#
Colour
Coverage %
Anilox vol
R / kg
Coverage bar
Job Parameters
One impression = one print of the artwork exactly as loaded. If this PDF is a stepped sheet (several ups across and around), set units per impression above to the number of ups.
Metres of substrate for press setup and register
Flat charge to fill chamber + anilox + ink lines, added on top of running ink
Share of the anilox cell volume that reaches the substrate. House default 40%.
Applied to every colour, unless a colour has its own R/kg in the table above. Leave blank to hide cost.
Enter anilox per colour in the table. Pick BCM here to auto-convert.
Paper absorbs more ink than film — adjusts ink laydown
Sets the press guidance notes below
Anilox volume is entered per colour in the table above. Leave blank to use a 3.5 g/m² rule-of-thumb. Transfer efficiency and units apply to every colour's anilox.
