Technical Support Document 048 - 5/96

NEW FEATURES - MAY 1996

1. Filtration to Density Correction

This feature has the option of being Active or Inactive; the default is Inactive and it comes from the factory this way. This feature can be set through the Starlite Preferences menu (5,11) under the item "Filt. Density Correction. When active, the density will be adjusted when the cyan, magenta or yellow filtration values are changed. The change in density takes place when the lamps go on and the filters are put in. The amount of density put in for each CC of filtration is set in the Starlite Calibration menu (6,12) under the item "Filt. Density Correction Gains" where the individual CMY % gains can be set. The default values are C:40% M:50% Y:10%.

2. Incremental Adding in CMYD Mode

If you press the expose key after one of the filtration keys, a message "Incremental" appears and the filtration value goes to "0". You can use the number keys or arrows and + - to enter an incremental offset. Pressing Enter will accept the value and exit the incremental mode or pressing another filtration key will keep you in incremental mode for the next entry. For example: The display reads C:-- M:23 Y:17 and D:9. If you want to add 9 CC's of Magenta to its current filtration, there are two ways of doing this. The first way is to add 23 and 9 together using any of the traditional methods. The second way would be to push the keys in the following sequence: Magenta, Expose (display will read "Incremental"), 9, Enter. The Colorhead will add 9 CC's of Magenta to the existing 23 CC's and the display will read the new filtration of M: 32. If you wanted to subtract 9 CC's of Magenta, the steps would be the same except that after pushing the Expose key, the operator would then push the Lamp/+- key so that there was a "Minus" sign at the Magenta display. This second method is the Starlite's new feature called "Incremental Filtration". This feature also works in conjunction with neutral density and the Filtration to Density option.

3. Multiple Processors Offsets

There is now a feature that allows offsets to be entered in for more than one processor. This is done through the Starlite main menu item #4 "Process Offsets" Listed are some things to look for that have changed.

1. The process channel is displayed on the main screen next to the emulsion.

2. The mixing box designator has been shortened from '5x5' to '55'.

3. There are 10 process channels 0-9, all are programmable.

4. Process offsets can be selected or edited from the main menu item #4.

5. Old item #4, 'Print Mode', has been moved to the end of the menu list

6. Process offsets can be selected or edited from the calibration menu #1.

7. The selecting and editing of offsets is done exactly like the emulsion offsets.

8. Process number is now saved and recalled in job memories.

9. A warning is displayed if a different process is recalled.

10. When updating to this software, old process offsets are put in new channel '0'.

11. When Updating to this software, old jobs are modified to use process '0'