Techkon USA Unveils SmartANILOX Predictive Anilox Recommendations System

ChromaQA 7 ink check. | Credit: Techkon

Techkon USA announced a new color management solution. SmartAnilox builds upon traditional density adjustment recommendations such as InkCheck or BestMatch and predicts how changing the anilox roll will affect the deltaE of every color in a job. SmartAnilox will be available exclusively as part of the upcoming ChromaQA 7 release later this month.

SmartAnilox provides immediate, actionable intelligence, clearly identifying the specific anilox to achieve the lowest Delta E, allowing teams to hit color targets faster and slash make-ready times” — Stephen Rankin, Director of Product Management at Techkon USA.

Ink density adjustment recommendations are now standard across many software packages. In a major breakthrough development, the engineers at Techkon now have been able to extend this useful functionality to include predictive recommendations for changing and using the optimum anilox roll for the lowest deltaE results.

Here is how it works:

• The process starts with making prints or drawdowns across the range of typically used anilox volumes
• This needs to be completed for each ink system and substrate combination that is being used to print with
• The SmartAnilox engine uses this information to characterize the rate of density change for a given ink system and substrate combination across a range of anilox roll cell volumes.
• Once the initial preparation is completed, the InkCheck graph will now automatically show the predicted results for all of the anilox rolls in the system

SmartAnilox is just one of a number of new features to be announced in Techkon’s major new update to its color management flagship software – ChromaQA 7, later this month.

Source: Techkon

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