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Four Things Every Virtuoso User Should Know About Virtuoso Print Manager

Four Things Every Virtuoso User Should Know About Virtuoso Print Manager
If you have a Virtuoso printer and/or use CreativeStudio, chances are you have Virtuoso Print Manager installed on your computer. The question is, do you know what you can do with this powerful bit of software and how it can help simplify your sublimation production?

Virtuoso Print Manager is essentially a color and print management program that helps bring the designs you create on your computer to your printer. Why do you need special software to do this? First, computers design in three colors: red, blue and green and your printer uses at least four colors: cyan, magenta, yellow and black. The printer needs information from the computer telling it how much of each color to use to create the colors you want.

Second, the colors on the print you see when you use a sublimation printer are not what will be on your substrate after pressing. Prints look washed out before they are pressed to the substrate because the color in the dye solids of your sublimation ink are not expressed until they actually sublimate in the heat press. This means that the printer needs additional information, such as the type of substrate and paper you are using, to be able to print the correct ratio of colors.

Virtuoso Print Manager provides all of this information, as well as several features that can help speed your production process. Here are four features Virtuoso Print Manager offers that you should become more familiar with, if you have not explored them already:

Compatibility with Multiple Graphics Programs

Virtuoso Print Manager (VPM) enables you to accurately manage colors using a wide range of popular graphics programs. These include Virtuoso CreativeStudio Online Designer, CorelDRAW, Photoshop/Photoshop Elements, Illustrator, Silhouette, SubliEVO and more. Because VPM supports so many graphics platforms, you can design in your preferred program and easily print right from your user interface.

Hot Folders

This is a handy feature that enables you to drag and drop files into a folder and have specific print settings applied to those files. For example, you could set up a Coasters hot folder that will apply the same print speed, substrate, paper, color and layout settings to every image you save to that folder. This will eliminate time spent on recreating your settings, as they are already saved. Simply drag, drop and print.

Automatic Image Grouping

If you want to print several images at once, automatic image grouping allows VPM to arrange your images to fit onto as few pieces of paper as possible. This feature can be activated on the Layout tab of VPM’s user interface. Click on the VPM Performs Layout button and choose your paper type. This will set Virtuoso Print Manager to automatically arrange your images onto one or more pages. You also have the ability to add in extra space if needed.

Spot Color Management

When creating a specific color is essential, so is spot color management. Virtuoso Print Manager offers a Palette Manager feature that allows you to import palettes you created in PowerDriver and create/find specific colors for new projects. Once you have found the right color, you can save it to your palette for easy application the next time you need it.

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