Color/Quality Control - Hardware

Whether they are press operators or manage national brands, attendees have come together for better, more consistent color.

David Hunter provides some best practices for color consistency amid tightening brand tolerances.

On January 22-25, 2022, the industry will once more come together in person for the annual color management conference: COLOR22.

To achieve color consistency across multiple platforms, you must understand the color capabilities of each device, its inherent color gamut, and the impact of the substrate. Then calibrate and/or color manage the device(s) to a shared common appearance condition.

Since implementing G7 methodology, Elif, a flexible packaging printer with locations in Istanbul and Cairo, has seen significant improvements in color quality and consistency.

Trying to achieve a shared visual appearance between products printed on different media with different printers can be challenging. That’s where good color management can make all the difference.

As brand owners increase their scrutiny of color reproduction, package printers can utilize tools and strategies to maximize consistency.

Techkon has announced an expanded family of ChromaQA color quality solutions designed to help printers improve their color matching capabilities, shorten their makereadies, and reduce their waste.

Bollin Label Systems, a label printing company based in Toledo, Ohio, has outfitted its production facility with Techkon SpectroDens devices as well as Ink Formulation Software.

INX International Ink Co. announced it has increased its all-encompassing slate of technical services that are available to commercial and package printing customers. These services include training and education, improvement in pressroom productivity, and other significant measures.