Color/Quality Control - Hardware

Tennessee-based TPC Printing & Packaging installed a 10-color Koenig & Bauer Rapida 105 PRO plus coater perfector press. Sales have rapidly grown by more than 50% since the installation while gaining massive improvements in efficiency and costs.

COLOR22 ended on a high note this year, finishing the conference with two keynotes that helped to bring the ideas together.

The second day of the color management conference – COLOR22 – began with a look at how our emotions and senses are impacted by color.&n

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.