The development of PressPerCent application started in mid 1990's. The purpose was to create a simple ink key pre-setting software tool - a popular subject at the time when press manufacturers and printers were searching for less expensive, space-saving solutions to replace hardware plate scanners (that never were extremely reliable, among everything else).
Technically the application itself is just an area coverage calculator. It converts jobs in various input formats into bitmap images with relatively low resolution (its internal file format), then it counts number of pixels that have different color values in these bitmaps. This calculation is done for certain areas specified by user: entire printable area of the printing press, or page area of the job, or stripes that correspond to ink zones of offset (litho) printing press, or any rectangle that user drawn on screen using mouse.
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