BST, X-Rite Partner for Strategic Development

“Combined with our extensive experience in web quality-assuring technology this will result in a system creating a new era in press color control in this field,” states Michael Wiebe, BST’s CTO.

“We are very excited to partner with BST and through the association of our know-how, IP, and talents, to build a solution that sets new milestones in color-driven value creation in flexo and gravure workflows,” comments Dr. Francis Lamy, X-Rite’s CTO. “Through our partnership with BST International, we are expanding and leveraging our reach and leading position in inline color control technology into the flexo, gravure, and narrow-web printing market. The increasing demand in the packaging field makes it not only a very attractive large growth segment in the printing business, but it also represents a segment that values greatly accurate color; brand color reliability is an essential element of the customers’ perception that enables brand loyalty. Through these types of systems, associated to the PANTONE standards, and all the tools that X-Rite develops around the PANTONE standard to increase its relevance and ease of use in specifications and design application, we believe this will facilitate and enable value creation for brand owners and all actors in this ecosystem at large.”