>Work faster and more efficiently with the most advanced professional plug-in for Adobe© Photoshop, Illustrator©, InDesign© or Photoshop   Elements©.
>The new Mirage Stand-Alone application allows printing of PDF, JPEG and TIFF files without the need of any host-application like Photoshop, Illustrator©, InDesign© or Photoshop Elements© being installed.
>Mirage makes things simple by giving you all the features, tools and settings you need in one well-arranged layout. Just push the print button and start printing in seconds.
Enjoy support for all the colour modes you work with, even if there are mixed modes like RGB and CMYK in one document. Save time and paper and enjoy unlimited print length - if Photoshop©, Illustrator©, InDesign© or Photoshop Elements© can handle the file then the Mirage plug-in can print it.
Simple and easy

You want to get a print reliably done without finding your way through complex printer driver options? Mirage gives you exactly the settings you need. No more expensive misprints due to so called "user error".

Mirage Stand-Alone

The all new "Mirage Standalone" is part of all Mirage versions.
The new "Mirage Standalone" allows you to print native PDF files and pictures on a direct way for the first time without needing a hostaplication to be installed.
Simply drag PDF, JPEG or TIFF files or folders with mixed content of supported file formats to the new "Mirage Standalone" application program icon without any host application such as Photoshop©, Illustrator©, InDesign© or Photoshop Elements© being required.

Print multiple Images on the same time

Print as many differrent images as you want: Now you can print multiple images at the same time, make your settings for each image and Mirage will layout the images to your media for easy cutting or minimal waste of media (at your choice).

Focus on printing

For image editing or layout works you are using the best tools from Adobe. That is why Mirage concentrates on providing you all the features, tools, and settings that are required for professional print results in an intuitive and simple user interface.

Stunningly fast

Push the print button and Mirage starts printing within a few seconds.

Save time and media

Creating a page setup for every print job is a waste of your time. Mirage will do it automatically and even help you minimize the paper used for each job.

No length limitaion

Are you tired of being limited in print length? Mirage has no limit. Print panorama images with ease and without any limit. Print 30.000px and more. If Adobe® Photoshop® can handle it, the Mirage Photoshop Plug-in can print it!

Administer your Media

Administration of all Media types available in Mirage, including pre-installed and custom media, has become more powerful than ever.
Organize Media Types into groups
(like Photopaper, Matte media, FineArt etc.).
Just add a group and drag media-types into it.
Hide Media
The more media types you add, the more unclear the media selection menu becomes. Enter the "Custom Media" tab of the "Settings..." menu and check / uncheck the checkbox of a media you may not need at the moment to hide it from the "on" menu of the Mirage user interface.

Extended Printer Queue

Mirage allows you to print to multiple printers at the same time (i.e.: in parallel). The "Mirage Print Queue" offers a great preview for current and queued printjobs and provides the possibility to prioritize, pause or cancel print jobs.

Supports all color modes

Mirage supports all color modes offered by your application. And even mixed modes like RGB and CMYK in one document will do.

Create professional ICC Profiles

Mirage Pro is the professional extension to the Mirage Master- & Premium Edition. The Mirage Pro extension adds support for the Epson SpetroProofer device to enable creation of ICC color profiles with ease.
The Mirage Pro wizzard will automatically layout and print the measurement color patches, dry the print with the SpectroProofer’s built in fan, measure the color patches utilizing SpectroProofer’s x-rite measurement device and create professional ICC profiles for you.

We have added great new features to the "Mirage Pro Extension". The "Mirage Pro Extension" is the simpliest way ever to create professional ICC profiles utilizing the Epson SpectroProofer device:

Using the Mirage 1.5 PRO Extension allows you to utilize any SpectroProofer device to create individual RGB ICC profiles for any other printer that is supported by Mirage* (i.e.: print your target on an 11880, 3880, 9800... and measure the target with a SpectroProofer that is attached to a 4900, 7900, 9890 and so on). Just follow the easy steps of the wizzard "Add new Media" from the "Custom Media" tab of the "Settings.." menu.

 Cut sheet support

A feature that was requested by many was enabling the creation of ICC profiles using the Epson
SpectroProofer device measuring targets printed to cut-sheet media. The Mirage 1.5 PRO Extension now allows printing to / and measure targets from roll and cut-sheet media.

* Except for the Epson Stylus Pro 7600, 9600 and WT7900 as these printers require CMYK ICC profiles.

Saving Settings

For repetitive jobs all Mirage settings can be stored!

You're currently preparing a print job and the settings of this job might be a source of great timesavings for future jobs or being helpful to be used by collegues that are not so well trained yet?
Click the "Save Settings / Edit Settings" button. Just name the settings you want to store and that is it.
The next time you open the Mirage dialog just select a stored setting set and apply these settings to the current job.You can edit a setting or create a set of settings from scratch.
In addition you can store a set of settings as Droplet (see next chapter for more information)...

Droplets

What a great new feature.

Mirage can store a set of settings as described in the chapter before, but what about hotfolders?
"Mirage Droplets" provide you with a tool that offers "hotfolders" functionality but is way easier to setup, administer and handle.
You can create a "Mirage Droplet" from any stored setting. Simply store the "Mirage Droplet" to any place you like - the desktop might be a good place.
Now you can drag PDF, JPEG & TIFF files or folders (even with mixed content) to your "Mirage Droplet" and the Mirage userinterface will open. All settings that are "connected" to the "Mirage Droplet" are applied.

Just PRINT... That's it!
Crop images / pages

You can select the cropping area by either defining the desired size in cm/inch or % or using the interactive Mirage cropping window .Here you can make all relevant settings and the Mirage preview will display the effect on the fly.

Show Informations

Mirage provides a powerful allgorithm to scale images and pages.In order to control if the desired scaling is providing a sufficiant output quality Mirage offers informations that might display a warning if technically the output size is too big based on the original file.

Supporting "Finest Details"

Selecting "Finest Details" will provide better print results for artifical lines like those beeing created in InDesign or Illustrator.

Double cut for borderless printing

The new implemented option"Cut Twice" (double cut) enables you to cut the upper and lower end after each series.This means you cut into the printed area in order to create prints that are borderless on the top and bottom.

>Supported Applications

Windows:

Adobe Photoshop 7, CS, CS2, CS3, CS4 & CS5, CS 5.5 in 32 & 64bit
Adobe Photoshop Elements 6, 7, 8 & 9
Adobe InDesign CS3, CS4 & CS5
Adobe Illustrator CS3, CS4 & CS5

Macintosh:

Adobe Photoshop CS2, CS3, CS4 & CS5, CS 5.5 in 32 & 64bit
Adobe Photoshop Elements 6, 8 & 9
Adobe InDesign CS3, CS4 & CS5
Adobe Illustrator CS3, CS4 & CS5

>System Requirements

Mac OS X 10.4,10.5,Snow Leopard or Lion, Windows XP SP2 or later, Windows Vista 32 or Vista 64, Windows 7 32 & 64 bit