X-Rite has donated three Spectrophotometers to the Technology Centre of the DFTA flexographic association in Stuttgart, Germany.
Founded in 1994, the DFTA-TZ serves as a centre of flexographic excellence and the donations will improve how its students measure colour in the flexo printing process.
The DFTA-TZ offers seminars, workshops and continuous training and extension studies that train and support experts in the flexographic printing method. This training, combined with DFTA’s scientific press experiments and research, helps the flexo industry to improve.
The donation of the Ci64 and the two X-Rite eXact Advanced Scan spectrophotometers are designed to support that mission.
Anton Jahn, lab engineer for Research and Development, said, ‘Before the X-Rite donation, we measured shiny and reverse printed materials with spectrophotometers that used an up-streamed polarization filter. While this was sufficient for general comparison of printing results, X-Rite’s donation gives us a much more suitable solution. With better measurement possibilities on a wider range of substrates, we are able to help our members and customers optimize their products and developments.’
X-Rite eXact is a handheld colour measurement solution that enables printers and packaging converters to understand, control, manage and communicate colour across the entire colour network, avoiding unwanted reprint and rework. The Ci64 is part of X-Rite’s Ci6x family of handheld sphere spectrophotometers.
This series of spectrophotometers measures colour at any stage of production, giving manufacturers greater confidence in their colour data, regardless of where or when the measurements are collected.
