What does Mizar Color Recipe do for the designer?

MCR is a standalone program which is used with Photoshop to convert an image for commercial printing from the designers monitor colors (sRGB) into a HIGH IMPACT,
SIX color color separations set [CMYKRV].   Alternatively, user can choose a FIVE color separations set [CMYKR].  The C, M, Y and K ink specifications coincide to whichever Photoshop CMYK settings the user wishes to apply in the last steps of the easy to run process. In most cases the usual CMYK inks will be used.

THIS SEPARATIONS SET allows for the accurate printing of many color ranges MOST IMPORTANT IN ADVERTISING, PACKAGING, ETC.  Within those ranges are included many spot colors [very important for advertising effect] such as [intense red-PMS 185] (very close match †) and [Reflex Blue] (close match ‡).
To achieve accurate results for some of these color ranges, particularly where specific expanded gamut colors are to be precisely matched, color editing using the straightforward method described in the user's manual may be required.  In cases where the provided 18 color sample color chart may not be adequate to meet the user's rigid requirements, the printing of a color chart or swatch set, reflecting the users equipment, ink and media may be advised.  Pantanal Color Company will proactively assist, lending its expertise, in creating any such needed color chart.¹

In many or most cases, MCR eliminates the need for time-consuming, unnatural looking
Touch Plates which so often turn out to be more distracting than effective.

The MCR generated outputs in conjunction with the easy to apply color edit procedure, can impart a remarkably accurate color conversion from the designer's monitor color space.

Alternatively, the designer may choose to edit the high-fidelity color file so that, in the final design stage, the saturation levels of any selected color ranges, particularly the impact color ranges, are heightened or diminished as the designer's discretion dictates.

A sample color chart of MCR COLORS greatly helps to impart predictability of just how the printed output will look, and assists the designer in applying the MCR colors to specific areas in a design or to vector objects such as text in the popular page layout programs.
     The Sample Color Chart (printed on Kromekote®) is included with the program.
     Link to Sample Color Chart in PSD format
     If using PC Internet Explorer, Right Click and select "Save Target As...".
     If reader can't download the chart, please ask us to email it as an attachment.

MCR is run on the Windows platform, however its outputs are brought into Photoshop on either the Macintosh or the Windows platform. All MCR files used in Photoshop
(including user's manual) are Cross-Platform.

   †  See Color "4TOS-C" on sample color chart supplied with program
       or on postcard, for actual MCR color.  Color Recipe Specification
       may have to be modified to reflect unique factors in user's
       equipment, ink and media.
   ‡  See Color "7TTW-C" on sample color chart supplied with program
       or on postcard, for actual MCR color.  Color Recipe Specification
       may have to be modified to reflect unique factors in user's
       equipment, ink and media.

   ¹  "Full assistance" regarding any needed color chart, as per our high
       standards of helping customers, is assured for one year after the license
       purchase. Special circumstances may allow for an extension of that
       period [pertaining to assistance with color charts only].