Importing Density Measurements; Simple Ascii Import File Format - Oki CX3641MFP Technical Reference

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This chapter describes Simple ASCII File Format (SAIFF), which you can use to import
density measurements from measurement devices into ColorWise Pro Tools Calibrator.
To use your own measurement data from an alternate measurement instrument, rather than
make measurements directly in Calibrator, record your individual readings in a text file,
structured as described in this chapter. You can then import the data into Calibrator by
clicking From File under Get Measurements in the Calibrator main window.

Simple ASCII Import File Format

This format describes Status T measurement data for import into the ColorWise Pro Tools
Calibrator. The three possible file formats are:
• 1D Status T density for EFI 21 patch page
• 1D Status T density for EFI 34 patch page
• 1D Status T density for other pages (maximum of 256 patches per ink)
The file format is ASCII and has no tabs. A single space or multiple spaces are used
as delimiters. Blank lines are not allowed. Each line in the file represents four patches
(C, M, Y, K) of a specific ink value. Comments may be on any line in the file. Comment
lines must start with a pound sign (#) followed by a space. (A line with a pound sign
followed by any character other than a space has been reserved.) Comments must be on a
line by themselves.
Each line of data contains five values. The first number is the sequential patch number (for
EFI 21 and EFI 34 pages) or the ink value percentage (for other pages). The four values
that follow are the density values of C, M, Y, and K of the corresponding patch. Lines are
ordered either by increasing sequential patch numbers, or by increasing the ink
percentage.
For Windows computers, the file extension must be .cm1. For Mac OS computers, the file
type must be 'TEXT'.
Measurement data in EFI 21 and EFI 34 are paper-relative. For other pages, if the first line
corresponds to zero ink value, the Calibrator assumes that the measurement data is
absolute and adjusts it to become paper-relative by subtracting the density values of the
first line from the remaining patches.