Technical Information

 

MeasureColor optimizes dot gain, delivering exceptional print quality.

Achieving stable print quality hinges on your ability to control dot gain—a critical yet often overlooked variable. Dot gain significantly impacts color accuracy, image sharpness, and overall visual performance, particularly in packaging printing and workflows involving expanded color gamuts. With MeasureColor, printers can access advanced tools that enable them to effortlessly monitor, manage, and optimize dot gain in real time—eliminating the need for subjective guesswork.

Understanding Dot Gain: A Key Color Control Metric

In extended color gamut processes such as CMYK and CMYKOGV, dot gain is a critical metric for assessing print quality. As ink spreads on the substrate, the actual printed dots tend to be larger than expected, thereby altering color balance and image sharpness. If not properly managed, even minor changes in dot gain can lead to noticeable inconsistencies.

MeasureColor helps you proactively address issues:

● Track dot gain across the entire gamut range.

● Compare the measured dot gain curve with the target curve.

● Verify whether the physical color patches are printed within the tolerance range.

This allows for both macro-level analysis across color families and detailed evaluation of individual hues, providing operators with the insights needed to make precise adjustments.

CTP curve optimization can be easily achieved, and its working principle is as follows:

● Import or create an initial curve

● Measure the printing results

● Recalculate and optimize the curve based on the actual performance of network node expansion.

● Export an updated compensation curve compatible with most RIP systems.

This iterative optimization approach for curves reduces machine calibration time, material waste, and the risk of human error, helping the printing team achieve closed-loop control more quickly.

Traditional dot gain correction methods require linear test plates and multiple printing runs. MeasureColor eliminates this inefficient process by directly recalculating the CTP curve within the software itself.

Deliver data-driven print quality

MeasureColor gives printers a competitive edge by transforming time-consuming manual adjustments into data-driven decisions. By optimizing dot gain, you can achieve:

● Better color fidelity

● Less ink waste

● Faster job turnaround

● Higher customer satisfaction

Whether you’re operating a flexographic, offset, gravure, or digital printing press, MeasureColor provides the necessary insights and tools to ensure consistent results for every job.

eXact AutoScan Track Scan

The eXact AutoScan track scanner is also your most versatile tool. Simply press a button, and the eXact Auto-Scan will help you reduce preparation time by more than 30%. This multi-purpose scanning solution offers greater flexibility for printing workshop operations, allowing operators to perform color measurements using single-point, manual, and automatic scanning methods. With just a single button press, the eXact Auto-Scan significantly minimizes human error, enabling rapid scanning while reducing rework and ensuring that you deliver finished products that meet even the strictest customer tolerances.

eXact Auto-Scan combines the portability of a spectrophotometer with the speed of an automatic scanning system.

It greatly helps offset printing workers shorten preparation time and reduce waste.

Three measurement modes: single-point measurement, manual scanning, automatic scanning

 

Complies with G7, PSO, and ISO standards.

The comprehensive solution provides small and medium-sized printers with instant job performance feedback, enhances quality control reporting, and enables compliance with G7 printing standards.

The eXact Auto-Scan automatic scanner supports most global graphic arts standards, such as G7, PSO, FOGRA, ISO, and Japan Color. It can automatically load targets, reducing job setup time and enabling a zero-error workflow.

eXact Auto-Scan can be offered as a standalone system or used to enhance the capabilities of existing eXact Standard or Advanced systems for our customers. With eXact Auto-Scan, customers will be able to further improve color quality, reduce material waste, and expand their workflow.

Expand your workflow

Whether the scanned document contains four-color or multi-specialty colors, or whether it features multiple color bands or just a single one, the eXact Auto-Scan’s versatile, multi-purpose design allows you to enjoy flexible, efficient workflows. Seamlessly integrate with the MeasureColor grading system for precise measurement and scoring, ensuring tight control over sample prints.

MeasureColor is a system for measuring, controlling, monitoring, and evaluating the quality of offset, flexographic, gravure, and digital printing. It offers a comprehensive suite of powerful analytical tools designed to enhance the efficiency of printing presses and operators, improve print quality, and reduce waste.