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19 • Processing and creating basic materials

Processing and creating basic materials

(basic materials module only)

19.1 General

The basic materials module must be activated to permit basic materials to be processed and

newly prepared (

see Section 3.7 “Program versions and auxiliary modules”).

The inks and the solvent of the assortment can be split into their basic materials. For this purpose

a database of all basic materials available must ﬁ rst be compiled. The database of basic materials

can contain designation, additional description, price and type (pigment/concentrate, binder/

varnish, additive and solvent) of the basic material. Basic materials of pigment/concentrate type

are considered colorants. The remaining types of basic materials are considered clear. The type

description is used for sorting in the recipes.

Following entry of the basic materials in the database, their percentage proportions (percent by

weight) in the various inks (basic inks in viscosity module) of the assortment must be entered

(

see Section 14.4.8 “Division of assortment inks into basic materials”). It is possible to assign

more than one pigment/concentrate to one ink, although the clarity “one ink <-> one pigment/

concentrate” is then lost.

Three different types of recipe display therefore now exist:

1. Print ready inks recipe (solvent, if present, contained in every individual ink)

2. Recipe for basic inks and solvent (viscosity module only)

3. Basic materials recipe

Inputs of new recipes (command Recipe > New) or modiﬁ cations to existing recipes (command

Recipe > Modify) can be made in all three types of display. For the input of pigments/concentrates

in the basic materials display, the non-colorant components (binder-varnish, additives and

solvents) are added automatically in proportion, in order to obtain the physical properties (e.g.

viscosity, ...) of the ink. This mechanism can be removed (e.g. for the clear basic materials), so

that non-proportional quantity changes can also be made. You cannot continue to calculate with

non-proportional modiﬁ ed recipes however. In particular, the possibility for recipe correction is

lost. One solution is to make a copy of the still calculable recipe, to make the required changes

to this and then to save it under another name. A copy can be made by saving the same recipe

twice under different designations.

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