V3.2.1 – September 2021

  • Fixed a defect where a nozzle mismatch is incorrectly reported when performing NozzleOut compensation using a screen with linearizations without calibrations (calibrationMethod = "Table").

V3.2.0 – July 2021

  • Added support for non-zero offset when using Center justification for PrintFlat calibrations.
  • Added support for offsets and justifications with NozzleOut compensation.

V3.1.0 – May 2021

  • Added NozzleOut compensation functionality.
  • Allow negative calibration offset to be specified.
  • Replaced customer number with license and password for relevant PrintFlat and ScreenPro APIs.
  • Added more checks on the integrity of screen's configurations ("config.txt") and remove implicit order dependencies.
  • Added new API to allow users to retrieve variants of their LE licenses.

V3.0.0 – February 2021

  • A new licensing policy was implemented. Unless you are using LDK licensing, you will require a new license string. Please contact your technical representative if you did not receive one.
  • PrintFlat subscription generation and calibration installation has been moved from ScreenPro library to a new PrintFlat library. Please refer to ScreenPro.h and PrintFlat.h.
  • Added ScreenProValidateScreen function that can be called before screening to ensure settings and calibrations are valid.

V2.7.0 – November 2020

  • Correct handling of photometric interpretation for TIFF format, so that there is no longer a requirement for calibrations to use "Min is White".

V2.6.0 – October 2020

  • Added support for reading in custom curves in a binary format.

V2.5.0 – August 2020

  • Added support for calibration alignment and offset. To implement this, the ScreenProLayout structure used by the ScreenProScreen and ScreenProScaleAndScreen API functions has been updated to include all calibration parameters within a new CalibrationOption struct; this is a breaking change for API users that explicitly set each member of ScreenProLayout.

V2.4.7 – August 2020

  • Fixed an issue where ink limiting was not working for 1 drop screens.
  • Fixed an issue where calibrations were not applied at 100% with black100 set to false in the screen config.

V2.4.6 – July 2020

  • Internal changes only
  • Windows 7 support ended.

Please note: prior versions of ScreenPro Core were released as a package with ScreenPro File application, therefore not all items listed for the versions below are relevant to ScreenPro Core.

V2.4.5 – January 2020

  • Fixed an issue affecting quality with Chimera screening.
  • Added the ability to use a mixture of calibrations and linearizations within a screen.

V2.4.1 – September 2019

  • Calling ScreenProStartup() multiple times no longer causes licensing errors.
  • Multiple LDK licensed applications on the same system no longer cause a hang in ScreenPro.

V2.4 – August 2019

  • New HDS and Opal screens.
  • Ability to change x/y screen orientation.
  • Caldera RIP support.
  • PrintFlat Prepare subscriptions can now be generated from ScreenPro Core and File.
  • Output grayscale inversion.
  • Calibration justification and offset support.
  • ScreenPro now correctly de-registers a finished thread to support larger thread pools.
  • Thumbnail and ink calculations now ignore lead-in page if present.
  • Upscaling capability exposed in ScreenPro File.
  • Optionally ignore missing destination errors.
  • Additional options added for JDF destinations.

V2.3 – April 2019

  • Additional support for latest PrintFlat updates.

V2.2 – December 2018

  • Colorants can now have multiple destinations, definable within the Output Settings window.
  • SDK now supports upscaling of resolution.
  • Bracket encoding for JDF processing can now be turned on and off from the Preferences window.
  • License improvements for both LDK and LE Licensing, including new features such as Band Count.

V2.1.1 – November 2018

  • Detect zero length files in hot folder handling in GUI and wait for data to be written before processing.
  • Support for large (>4GB) rasters in ScreenPro Core.

V2.1 – September 2018

  • Complete redesign of the ScreenPro API, aimed at improving the overall experience and usability of the API both internally and for those using it as an SDK.
    • Improved thread safety all through the stack.
    • Clearer error reporting
    • Screen set caching to reduce load times
  • Support for asymmetric screening tiles with the Mirror and Pearl screen sets.
  • Ink limiting on Mirror/Pearl based on drop-blending parameters.
  • Input file names can now be customized with additional properties.
  • Post-processing command extended to allow for additional parameters.
  • Duplicate file processing no longer occurs when moving files to a hot folder from a network location.

V2.0.1 – July 2018

  • Destination Drive mappings are now displayed correctly with more than four destinations.
  • Allow a user to create a cloned colorant.
  • Add a PrintFlat screening option to tile calibration data if the page is wider than the number of nozzles.

V2.0.0 – June 2018

ScreenPro Version 2.0 introduces the following new features and functionality:

  • PrintFlat functionality now available for Mirror/Pearl.
    • Cross Web Calibration to correct for banding or density non-uniformity.
    • Web calibrations can now be applied to Screen sets.
  • Performance improvements
    • For Mirror/Pearl in ScreenPro Core Technology.
    • For Chameleon Screens in the ScreenPro application.
    • Licensing option to be able to screen with up to 16 instances in the ScreenPro application.
  • Quality improvements
    • 16 Bits Per Pixel (bpp) input support in Desktop and Command line application.
  • Inputs/outputs
    • Alphanumerical Colorant names are now supported.
    • Mirror/Pearl now supports 256 input channels.
    • New PassThrough screening method allows the user to test pre-screened content from the application and the SDK.
    • Specified output bpp can now be changed for TIFF output (SDK)
  • Sample application/usability improvements
    • -D: Optionally outputs the drop counts to a separate file in the output directory.
    • -P: Optionally Specify the output plugin (default is TIFF).
    • Sample application now includes examples of the IOHandler feature.
    • Command line application has been extended with additional arguments:
    • Mirror/Pearl configuration file updated to new format: Tom's Obvious, Minimal Language (TOML) to improve readability and extendibility.

V1.8.0 – April 2018

  • Extra ink limiting and screen quality improvements for Mirror and Pearl.
  • Support for 16-screen levels in Mirror and Pearl.
  • 16 bits per pixel input support for ScreenPro DLL.
  • Sample Application for ScreenPro Toolkit for both Windows and Linux; please see the appropriate Developer Guide for more details.
  • Documented in User Guide, how to alter the Screen Display names in the GUI.

V1.7.0 – December 2017

  • The user can now add/remove custom destinations in the Preferences->Output Settings dialog.
  • Custom routines can be used when reading screen tile data (potentially allowing diskless operation).
    See the ScreenProRegisterIOHandler(…).
  • For the Mirror, Pearl, and Chameleon screen types it is now possible to optionally specify an X and a Y offset respectively. Both are integer values and default to zero. This is useful when screening a large image in separate bands and screening each band separately, so that the X and Y offsets for each tile correspond to the X and Y position respectively of the top-left hand corner of the tile in the original image.
  • The Windows command line application now accepts optional -X and -Y arguments for specifying the X and Y offset values respectively.
  • The Linux command line application also accepts -X and -Y arguments.
  • The maximum number of colorants is now limited to 16.
  • Processing TIFF and PDF files concurrently would occasionally fail due to file locking issues.
    (This solution has necessitated a reduction in logged clrip process output.)
  • File names containing tilde characters would be written into JDF output files incorrectly.
  • In some circumstances color strategies with a space in their name might not be found if referenced from a JDF.

V1.6.0 – November 2017

  • New disk space saving mechanism implemented.
    • Under certain conditions screened TIFF files will now be truncated after screening, preventing disk space from being filled unnecessarily.
  • Users can now nominate which page(s) to use as a source for ink usage calculations.
  • This functionality was previously coupled with the thumbnail generation options.
  • Users can now nominate which page(s) to use as a source for thumbnail generation.

V1.5.0 – October 2017

  • Added Linux support for the ScreenPro DLL. For more details, please refer to “ScreenPro Developer Guide Linux.pdf”.
  • Additional application security model. ScreenPro was previously secured using the Sentinel LDK. We now offer an alternative XML-based method, which can also be used on Linux. Contact your technical representative for more details.
  • The default hot folder and logging location is now under the user’s Documents folder, making them easier to find in Windows Explorer.

V1.4.0 – September 2017

  • New Mirror and Pearl screening methods are now present in the ScreenPro application and ScreenPro.dll.
  • JDF screening supports ‘screen ahead’ mode, where the TIFF files can be screened prior to the JDF arriving.
  • Output JDFs can now optionally be updated with a mapped press configuration name
  • The ScreenPro application is localized to six new languages (Portuguese, German, Spanish, French, Italian, and Japanese). OEM extendable if required. Contact your technical representative for more details.
  • The system tray icon will now report hot folder status.
  • Various performance improvements and defects fixed.
  • TIFF output is now defaulted to 8bpp compressed using a color palette.

V1.3.0 – July 2017

  • More options for thumbnail creation.
    • More location options.
    • Save thumbnails as TIFF or PNG.
  • The ScreenPro application now features a system tray icon.
  • The ScreenPro application can optionally resume hot folders when starting up.
  • Improved JDF support for specific Esko based workflows.
  • Various performance improvements and defects fixed.

V1.2.0 – May 2017

  • Hot folder management for TIFF, and JDF files.
  • Screening using hybrid error diffusion and tile screening.
  • Output in TIFF for preview.

V1.1.0 – April 2017

  • Completely redesigned GUI and workflow engine for the 1.0rX product.
  • Release numbers strategy changed to follow 1.X.r
    • Where X is the version number.
    • Where r is a minor revision (if required).


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