Color-Accurate Print Files
for Every Location
Different printers, inks, and materials produce different results. With Facility Management, you store separate CMYK values per production location and get print files that look identical everywhere.
Why One CMYK Code Isn't Enough
The same CMYK code can produce a different result on Printer A in Europe than on Printer B in Asia. Printer brands, inks, materials, and even environmental factors like temperature and humidity affect the print result.
Facility Management solves this. Separate CMYK values are stored per production location or printer. When creating a print file, you select which location the file should be generated for. 3D Designer then automatically uses the appropriate CMYK codes for the entire design.
How It Works
Create Locations
Create any number of facilities in the admin dashboard. A facility can be a production site, a single printer, or a production line.
Maintain CMYK Values per Location
In Color Management, you store a separate CMYK code per color and per facility. A color then consists of the hex code for display and a list of location-specific CMYK values.
Generate Print File for the Right Location
When creating a print file, you select the facility. The system automatically inserts the appropriate CMYK codes. The result is color-accurate, no matter which location the file goes to.
The Path from Color to Location-Specific Print File
In Color Management, you maintain your colors centrally. Each color has a hex code that's shown to customers in the designer. Additionally, each color can have one or more CMYK values, one per production location.
When an order comes in, you see the design in the admin dashboard. There you select the facility for which the print file should be generated. In the print file, all colors are then replaced with the CMYK values of the selected location.
The result: A print file where every color contains exactly the CMYK code calibrated for that specific printer and material. The colors in the final print look exactly as the customer chose them in the designer.
Example
You've created the color "Club Red" in Color Management. In the designer, it's displayed as #C0392B. For your printer in Germany, you store the CMYK value C:0 M:85 Y:78 K:15. For your partner's printer in Portugal, which uses different inks, you store C:2 M:88 Y:75 K:12. When generating the print file, you select the location, and the correct CMYK value is automatically inserted.
How It Connects to Other Features
CMYK values per facility are maintained directly in Color Management. There you define which color gets which CMYK code at which location.
Learn more about Color Management→Facility Management builds on Print File Generation. Location-specific CMYK values are automatically inserted into the generated print files.
Learn more about Print File Generation→