Color verification with Fiery ColorGuard

With Fiery ColorGuard, you can leverage scheduled verifications and cloud-based history and trend analysis to achieve consistent, accurate color quality.

Fiery ColorGuard allows you to create color verification schedules that automatically prompt operators when it is time to verify systems. Verifications can be executed automatically without user input if your printer has an inline measurement instrument.

For each printer, you schedule verification against a selectable verification preset, which can be an industry standard or custom-defined standard, in the Fiery ColorGuard Web application. Command WorkStation will notify the operator when a scheduled verification is pending and prompt the operator to perform color verification.

Fiery XF supports system verification using Fiery ColorGuard. With a system verification, you can check the color output of your printer against a verification preset by scanning a printed control wedge with a spectrophotometer.

Fiery ColorGuard sends scheduled system verification jobs for Fiery XF-driven printers directly to print. If a printer is not ready, Fiery ColorGuard waits for up to two hours before sending an error.

You can track verification results over time in the Fiery ColorGuard Web application.

Keep in mind the following:

You can perform system verifications for any workflow and printer combination.
For benchmark verifications, the first measurement serves as a reference for all future benchmark verifications.
You can view the verification status of a Fiery XF-driven printer in the Job Summary pane of Command WorkStation: green indicates that the printer passed the verification, yellow indicates that an error occurred during verification, and red indicates that the verification failed.
Fiery ColorGuard displays system verification results for each workflow of a printer.
Fiery ColorGuard shows the most recent system verification result as the system status for all jobs loaded or processed with each workflow and printer combination.
With universal verification, you can create a verification schedule associated with one workflow of a printer and apply those results to all other verification schedules and workflows for the printer.
When you perform a job verification, the results of the job verification will be shown in place of any previously performed system verification results for the same workflow.

To access ColorGuard with Fiery XF, you must connect your Fiery XF-driven printer to the Fiery IQ cloud. For more information, see Connect a Fiery XF-driven printer to the Fiery IQ cloud.

After connecting your Fiery XF-driven printer to the Fiery IQ cloud, you can access Fiery ColorGuard features in Command WorkStation 7.2 and later using one of the following:

Click Server > ColorGuard.
Click the More icon (three vertical dots) next to the Fiery XF server name in the Servers pane and click ColorGuard.

In the Fiery ColorGuard client window:

Click Go to ColorGuard web to access the Fiery ColorGuard Web application where you can schedule verifications to be completed in Fiery ColorGuard and track the verification results.

The Notifications tab includes the Fiery ColorGuard pending schedule notifications. You can click Verify now to open FieryMeasure and complete the verification.

For more information about Fiery ColorGuard, see Fiery IQ Help for Industrial and Large Format presses.