Fiery Color and Imaging

Fiery spot color management

From corporate branding to high-level color matching in commercial print settings, it’s essential to print consistent, predictable spot colors right the first time, every time. EFI offers two methods for managing spot colors on a Fiery digital front end (DFE): Fiery Spot-On™ and Fiery Spot Pro.  

Fiery Spot-On: standard spot color management capabilities

• Standard on all external Fiery servers
• Standard on many embedded Fiery servers, others may require an optional package to enable

• Create custom spot colors

• Edit spot colors

• Capture spot colors with a spectrophotometer

• Create substitute colors

• Print swatch book

Fiery Spot Pro: advanced spot color management for production environments

Requires one of the following software packages to enable:

• Fiery Graphic Arts Package, Premium Edition for external Fiery servers running FS200 Pro, FS300 Pro, or FS350 Pro software
• Fiery Graphic Arts Pro Package for external Fiery servers running FS400 Pro or newer software
• Fiery ColorRight Package for embedded Fiery servers running FS400 or newer software

Fiery Spot Pro includes all functionality from Spot-On, plus the following features:

• Export/import spot color libraries in Adobe® Swatch Exchange (.ase) or Color Exchange Format (.cxf)
• Use a spot color alias to simplify spot color management
• Create custom swatch books
• Edit spot colors in multiple device spaces, including L*a*b
• Create custom spot color recipes that include specialty colors (supported engines only)
• View gamut warnings across an entire spot color library
• Customize Delta E tolerance and standard to meet your production needs

View a full comparison between Spot-On and Spot Pro here. 

Product training

Access free e-learning courses on Learning@EFI. 

• Spot-On
• Spot Pro for FS400 and newer Fiery servers
• Spot Pro for FS200 Pro/FS300 Pro/FS350 Pro Fiery servers