Calculate toner or ink coverage from a pdf file.
Ink Coverage
Written for the Mac.
This program opens a print ready pdf and will calculate the ink or toner coverage of the file.
A perfect solution for needing to know approximately how much a print job will cost before
printing it. If you are printing a one sided 8.5x11 in full color it may not matter much - but
what if you are printing 500 or a 1000 - then what?
This is a small easy to use application that does one thing - reads ink or toner coverage
and gives you the calculated results based on the consumable costs.
What if you receive a digital file that has a large solid black background?
Is that background color 100 percent black, or could it have 50 percent magenta and yellow as well?
- Takes the guess work out of estimating.
- Estimate your printing based on a tool that can measure coverage.
- Consistent and predicable quoting.
We created this program to help us in our printing business. We quote our
commercial work by finding the coverage and marking it up appropriately. Using print time, paper,
and design time, we can be consistent on our quotes.
The web page to our business is hobartprinting.com.
- This program can be used to determine the print cost of many digital printers.
- Laser, poster, wax, or ink jet printers.
- Seven color ink jets can be measured as well.
Try this program free for 30 days. We hope you find it useful.
• Problems with Leopard have been fixed as of version 1.13.
• Problems with Snow is fixed as of version 1.16.
• No problems under Lion.
• Problems with El Capitan fixed as of version 1.175
• Siera compiled program, 64 bit, version 2.00
• Mojave, version 2.20
• Catalina, problem with gatekeeper, be sure to use version 2.20
• Big Sur, unknown and problem with gatekeeper, be sure to try the version 2.20
• A step by step guide in running programs by unidentified developers below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRlnHW-7uek
The demo version is the full version (30 day free trail).
update page contains all downloads up to including version 2.20
The zipped file contains a dmg. Double click the dmg, find the Ink Coverage Program and
drag into the Application folder.
Pdf files are included - For your testing.
Currently working on cross plateform versions using Windows, BSD, and linux.
This program will be called PrepressActions and will also have profiles, coverage and more.
The mac will not be excluded, but what is not known is how well ghostscript, imagemagick, macports, or PrepressActions will run on Apples future releases.
I have been using a beta version of this program (PrepressActions) daily. Not just for the coverage part, but for prepress in general.