Described by Xeikon product management director Jeroen Van Bauwel as “one of those small but powerful tools that makes our customers’ lives easier”, Xeikon Color Control is said to allow the “closest possible” matching of colours to both the full Pantone book as well as to hard copies of previously printed packaging and labels provided by customers.
The tool, the company says, enables printers to offer their customers “repeatable and predictable” colours, and the “best simulation” of custom spot colours.
“With minimal time and effort, [print suppliers] can profile their environment and ensure customer specific colours can be reproduced with the closest possible match,” says Van Bauwel.
Having printed a target, the measured values are uploaded to a central server where a new profile is created, together with a library of named colours.
This is said to enable printers to have much better control over their output quality and to match the output with conventional jobs that have been printed previously.
Dr. Adrian Steele, managing director of UK-based self-adhesive label solutions provider Mercian, says: “Xeikon Color Control makes colour matching of digitally printed labels better, quicker and more consistent.
“Nothing will extend the physical limitations of a CMYK colour process gamut beyond its theoretical maximum, but using Xeikon Color Control we are really pushing the barriers of colour matching to the limit.”
Xeikon develops and delivers web-fed digital colour presses for labels and packaging applications, document printing and commercial printing.
