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X-Rite helps you maximize the opacity of the white ink layer.

Release Time： 2026-03-17 00:00:00.000

The Importance of White Ink
When printing on transparent substrates, metal bases, or colored media, white ink serves as a critical undercoat that ensures vibrant, consistent brand colors. However, its high consumption and expensive cost mean that low application efficiency can lead to significant material waste and soaring production costs.

Core Challenge: Balancing Transparency and Efficiency
To ensure optimal visual results, most manufacturers traditionally print the white ink layer exceptionally thick and opaque. This practice often leads to excessive ink consumption. With MeasureColor, printers can precisely control and monitor white ink opacity in real time, thereby maintaining quality while avoiding unnecessary costs.

Major Breakthrough: A 3% Change in Opacity Equals a 33.3% Ink Savings
Even minor adjustments can yield significant benefits. Reducing the opacity of the white layer by just 3% can cut ink consumption by 33.3%—with no visible impact on print quality. MeasureColor makes it easy for users to strike the optimal balance between performance and efficiency.

MeasureColor’s solution
MeasureColor software empowers press operators with easy-to-understand visualizations and actionable data insights:

● Real-time monitoring of white ink coverage

● Tracing the historical performance of white ink across jobs and substrates

● Rapidly formulate ink optimization decisions

Whether you’re printing labels, folding cartons, or flexible packaging, MeasureColor can be seamlessly integrated into your workflow.

Beyond Cost Savings: Operational Benefits
Reducing the consumption of white ink in the printing workshop has multiple positive effects:

● Shortened drying cycle

● Reduced substrate deformation rate

● Improved production turnover efficiency

● Reduced environmental impact

MeasureColor is driving the printing industry toward intelligent and sustainable transformation!

Optimizing the white ink layer represents an untapped strategic opportunity for packaging printing companies. MeasureColor helps you unlock cost-saving potential, ensure print quality, and build an efficient operational system by precisely measuring key performance indicators.
Advanced Color Quality Control Management
As a next-generation color measurement instrument, the eXact2 meets the demanding requirements of professionals in the printing, ink, and packaging industries. Its intelligent, precision-engineered design pioneeringly incorporates Mantis video target positioning technology, eliminating concerns such as color tolerance, substrate costs, material shortages, onboarding of new staff, slow measurement speeds, and sluggish instrument response.

The eXact/eXact 2 Advanced model not only verifies the color of CMYK and spot inks but also simultaneously performs measurements in four M modes, enabling it to display the spectral reflectance of substrates or inks, measure the density of spot inks, and assess color differences between substrates or inks against white and black backgrounds. Additionally, the eXact/eXact 2 Advanced densitometer can be integrated with PantoneLIVE and NetProfiler, significantly enhancing color accuracy throughout the workflow. It is ideally suited for ink rooms, quality-control laboratories, and printing and packaging production facilities.

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