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Automate the generation of print or printing profiles using the i1iO color table reader

Release Time： 2024-01-27 09:00:00.000

Color Management for Novel inks offer endless opportunities for application on various substrates such as paper, textiles, ceramics, and transparent films. To ensure color accuracy during these application processes, printer or press profiles must be created for each printer or press, ink, and substrate combination.

To this end, X-Rite offers an excellent tool to accelerate and simplify profile creation.

i1Pro 3 series

i1Pro 3 series It can meet almost any of your printing or printing job needs. Among them, i1Pro 3 and i1Pro 3 plus are handheld spectrophotometers, with 2 optional software packages to create profiles for all devices in your workflow.

Q: Need to print on smooth paper?

A: i1Pro 3 meets your needs.

Q: Need to print on specialty photo paper, vinyl, textiles, transparent films, corrugated board, or backlit materials?

A: You need the larger aperture i1Pro 3 Plus to capture all the color data needed to create accurate printer profiles. The i1Pro 3 Plus also features a polarizing filter that improves profiles for textured and reflective media, reducing unwanted specular highlights, enhancing blacks for better shadow detail, and delivering richer colors on unique surfaces.

In high-volume production environments, even with very advanced equipment, measuring test color charts and creating these profiles can be very time-consuming!

i1iO fully automatic color chart reader

i1iO fully automatic color chart reader Can fully take over the measurement of test color charts that may involve hundreds or even thousands of color patches. They not only eliminate user errors in the workflow, but also allow you to handle other tasks while they are busy working. They ensure consistency and reliability, and meet customer innovation requirements faster and easier.

Hands-free scanning solution

X-Rite's fully automatic color patch reader supports a wide range of media, inks, and press or printer combinations, and provides modes specifically for UV lighting and fluorescent brighteners. In addition, they directly support X-Rite ( and almost all third-party) configuration software programs.

i1iO with i1Pro 3 and i1Pro 3 Plus

i1iO with i1Pro 3 and i1Pro 3 Plus Can be added to the workflow at any time. Simply place the i1Pro 3 or i1Pro 3 Plus device on the arm for hands-free color chart reading. In M0 measurement condition scanning mode, i1iO can read over 500 color patches per minute and create profiles quickly. It has a mechanical arm fixed to the device that can move over the color patches on the test color chart. i1iO can Adjust height for different media, And is suitable for media up to 10 mm thick (up to 33 mm thick with optional Z-axis shims).

If you, like many others in the wide-format printing industry, are Handling both flexible and rigid substrates at the same time ，then the i1iO's ability to quickly measure multi-page color charts will benefit you greatly: Simply define three position points and then instruct the software to run in single-scan or dual-scan mode. Even when the printer or press is performing low-resolution printing or printing, the i1iO scanner is Can be automated Manual measurement tasks that might otherwise be very tedious.

Is automated scanning worth the investment?

Fully automatic color chart readers measure and control color on virtually any substrate and improve production efficiency. Therefore, Any company that performs daily QA assessments or needs to frequently create ICC profiles can benefit from it.

In addition, automated scanning with the i1Pro 3 Plus also provides Applications for unconventional media such as wood, acrylic, textiles, and backlit materials Possibilities are created. For example, X-Rite is used for i1iO scanner for i1Pro 3 Plus Creates profiles for recent projects at Four Hands Studio in Austin, Texas, by automating the measurement of reflective configuration targets.

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