Closed-Loop Color Reporting for Statistical Process Control
Meeting exact specifier requirements for accurate, consistent color quality can be a challenge. As the range of inks, printing technologies and substrates has expanded, so has the complexity of maintaining color quality in hybrid production environments across various shifts and sites. Printers and packaging converters must ensure that color is right the first time, right every time, in order to retain and gain customers in an increasingly competitive environment.
Providing real cost savings for your business
- Real-time reporting on multiple levels
- Take advantage of color standardization for packaging
- Maximize current investments
- Provide insight into areas of opportunity to identify, evaluate and correct
- Start press runs as quickly as possible with minimal or no downtime and have operations running confidently
- Define a variety of conditions within a single job
- Gain better control over ink quality and reduce ink inventories
A Flexible Single Platform
ColorCert Desktop Offerings
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ColorCert Manager: Desktop module used to capture all printing quality parameters into jobs and job templates to be used by other ColorCert desktop modules for quality control and reporting. |
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ColorCert Pressroom: Desktop module used at press-side for print quality control and reporting. Enables quick job set up based on templates created by ColorCert Manager as well as ability to make quick checks and reports of individual ink colors using the Basic version of the ColorCert Inkroom Tools module. |
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ColorCert Pressroom Essentials: Desktop module used at press-side for print quality control and reporting based on supplied jobs. |
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ColorCert Inkroom: Desktop module used to evaluate color quality of inks based on jobs created by ColorCert Manager or self-created color standard definitions. Supports file formats such as .CXF and .MIF |
ColorCert Cloud-Based Offerings
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ColorCert Repository Server: Cloud-based portal used to fully manage and deploy packaging color assets across locations and users. Manage access to all ColorCert assets and many other file formats based on user type, location, brand, workflow stage or other parameters. |
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ColorCert Packaging Production Scorecard Server: Cloud-based portal providing an at-a-glance view of production quality as part of an overall print quality control program. Summarizes overall quality levels and consolidates metrics using customizable filters based on plant, machine, customer, work type, or other job parameters. |
For a detailed comparison of the ColorCert desktop offerings, download our sell sheet.
By incorporating ColorCert into the PantoneLIVE workflow, printers and packaging converters have a complete, digitized end-to-end closed-loop reporting system for ensuring that color is right the first time, right every time. It positions quality printers and packaging converters in a winning position to maintain current customers and secure brand owner commitment.
Single Site … Multiple Sites
Whether your company is comprised of a single site, is a multinational provider with locations around the globe, or is consolidating with another company, ColorCert will help you better understand the color tolerances specified by operation managers or customers and ensure that your production falls well within those tolerances. By employing the X-Rite eXact™ spectrophotometers or other X-Rite Graphic Arts Standard [XRGA] compliant devices to monitor color quality, you can quickly, easily and automatically upload measurement results for review, for increased operational efficiency or to ensure compliance with service level agreements [SLA] or print quality programs.