Barbieri Color Blog

By Josef Berger, Quality Assurance Manager at Vanguard Europe Website: vanguarddigital.eu Social Media accounts: https://it.linkedin.com/company/vanguarddurst-europe https://www.youtube.com/@vanguarddigitalprintingsys5886/videosIn the ever-evolving world of UV printing, where precision, consistency, and versatility are paramount, having a reliable color measurement instrument becomes a crucial aspect of the process. Vanguard Europe is the European subsidiary of Vanguard Digital Printing Systems, based in Brixen, Italy. The company, part of Durst Group, is a manufacturer of true flatbed and roll-to-roll UV printing systems for the signage, decoration, industrial and packaging sectors. Vanguard relies on Barbieri's Spectro LFP qb to ensure optimal color accuracy and reproducibility across a wide range of applications and substrates. One of the standout features of Barbieri's Spectro LFP qb is the exceptional accuracy. In various specialty digital printing applications like backlit ...

Automated Spectrophotometer for Traditional and Specialty ApplicationsA Review of the Barbieri Spectro LFP qb Textile EditionBy Bruce Leigh Myers, Ph.D.Associate Professor, Rochester Institute of TechnologyFew would doubt the importance of color management in modern graphic workflows. In the earliest days of ICC-profile-based color management for printed materials, instrument automation, ease of use, and accuracy proved to be a stumbling block inhibiting widespread use. The earliest adopters of these technologies for printed materials often used expensive spot reading spectrophotometers or lower-cost tri-stimulus reflective colorimeters, which provided requisite colorimetric values but suffered from accuracy issues. Using a spot-reading device for measuring the requisite measurement of hundreds of patches for output profile building is tedious and time-consuming. The monotony involved in taking so many spot readings also increases the likelihood of mistakes, compounding the ...

My name is Rob Cawston. I am an independent color management consultant working with CMYUK for over 15 years now. CMYUK are a very early proponent of color profiling their super wide printers. CMYUK profile every super wide printer that comes out the door. This ensures that all colors are accurate, all grays and neutral, and all spot colors have a smal delta E, which basically means the colors are accurate and as expected. I've been using Barbieri measurement instruments for the past 15 years. In my opinion, they are the best in the industry. They are especially good profiling materials for super wide printers. The unique feature of the Barbieri devices is that they can take automatic transmissive and reflective measurements on any thickness of material. Nobody else does this.The sensing unit on the Barbieri QB Textile edition takes a picture with a camera. That camera records where the patches are on the output. Then the spectral unit can scan the colors accurately by knowing ...