Quality Control: Measure it, Control it!

The roles of quality control (QC) equipment and systems in the pressroom and in the prepress area are related, but distinct. By the same token, color management and color process control are related, but are separate concepts. While color management means managing your devices such that you output color accurately and consistently, quality control or color process control ensures that the color will be consistent across processes and substrates. QC clearly represents a very specific challenge in packaging, given the variety of different substrates and disciplines commonly applied to a given brand.