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 ...