Caldera will take the opportunity to unveil its Ceramic Special Edition software at Tecnargilla 2014, which takes place this week in Rimini, Italy.

Designed as a scalable product to suit the diverse needs of the sector, Ceramic SE can handle workflows from simple push-button production to a full package including image manipulation, resizing, pattern reproduction and colour management.

The software additionally features manual ink set management, allowing the user to dictate which ink sits in which channel. This supports not only popular ceramic ink tones such as brown, beige and blue, but also white, gloss, matt and relief effect inks.

"Key players are driving innovation in this exciting new area of ink-jet production; Caldera is proud to enable their developments, and those of their customers," opines Frederic Soulier, chief technical officer, "Caldera sits at the middle of innovations in ink, print-head and printer platform evolution, and realises that the ceramics world is now hungry for new levels of colour control and predictability."