Supplementary English-Only Training Materials
Note: These materials are offered only in English as supplementary examples for a deeper dive into Fiery LLC products.

Costing Multipliers

Costing has been designed to support a wide range of printers.

To get accurate costing, it's important to set the passes feature, which acts as a multiplier.

For example, if you have this set to 3, it will multiply the ink usage x3. So if you had used 25cl, it will show 75cl used.

The passes feature calculates the correct ink usage based on the many different printer hardware designs and printer options.

 

White Ink

Printers that use white ink often have very different designs.

For example: In DTG, you may have 4 x White print heads. Depending on the driver, these may have four separate white channels (one per print head) or they may have one white channel.

If the driver uses one white channel, costing does not account for the number of white print heads.

You will need to set Passes to 4 to account for the 4 white print heads.

Examples of printers that have multiple white print heads with a single channel are Brother DTG machines (4 White print heads) and Epson DTG machines (2 White print heads)

 

To view the number of channels

If you are not sure how many channels the driver you are using sends to the printer, right-click a RIP-ed job and select View Raw Data.

This will show you the channels of data to be printed.

Costing data will agree with the data shown here (i.e., one channel = one channel).

 

Layer Repeats

The number of times the entire layer is passed through the machine for processing.

If you use the Layers Repeats feature, then you also need to take this into account in the passes.

Multiply the number of passes (calculated based on number of print heads) by the number of repeats.

If you have 4 passes and 2 repeats, passes should be set to 8.

 

Ink Passes / White Passes

The number of times each print head passes through the layer for processing.

Some printers also support ink passes / white passes. This is a printer option that will appear in the Printer Options tab in the Job or Queue Properties. With some drivers, this is also displayed on the Queue tab.

You must multiply the passes is Costing by this value.

 

Generally Ink passes are slightly faster while layer repeats give a slightly better coating.