Barbieri Color Blog

Welcome to the Barbieri Color Blog – your primary hub for the latest news and information related to the groundbreaking world of intelligent color measurement technology in professional digital printing.

The blog serves as a platform where we share updates about our cutting-edge technology, expert insights into the ever-evolving landscape of digital printing, practical tips to enhance your color management proficiency, and real-life case studies showcasing how we’re driving color excellence across the globe.

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Top performance with polarization filter

Back to Barbieri ONTop performance with polarization filterDan Reid is a color communication expert and president of RPImaging. His main area of expertise is teaching printing companies about color and associated technologies. The challenge to obtain outstanding color results may differ from material to material, and some material, like reflective or shiny, might need a different approach when measuring.Dan Reid:Today, I'm going to talk to you about a little secret method I've been using for my clients to achieve better visual color matches and improve spot color measurement conditions. I'm speaking about M3 measurement conditions or known as polarization measurements. Simply, it's just sunglasses for your color measurement device. I have clients that typically print and use laminates or have extremely glossy materials like vinyl or metal. And almost all of them suffer from having shadows that have no definition. And this is because light is reflecting around bouncing ...

Webinar: Automating colour measurement in digital textile printing

FESPA Global Print Expo 2021, October 12-15, Amsterdam

We have been exhibiting our products at FESPA Global Print Expo, Amsterdam RAI , Stand No. 5-M17.

Coding4Kids 2021

The Coding4Kids programming workshops for schoolchildren took place in Summer 2021 in South Tyrol, Italy and had big success.

Color Excellence in digital backlit printing

Back to Barbieri ONColor Excellence in digital backlit printingSince many years Andre Schwarz solves customer’s most critical color problems in digital printing. One of the challenges is to print true colors for backlit applications. Andre, how do you help to achieve color excellence?André Schwarz:We are in 2021 and from my experience there are still many customers out there not knowing how bad they are actually printing and what is possible with their equipment. In Backlit printing it is still quite common to just use a frontlit profile and print double-strike. So just „abuse“ a single strike profile and double the amount of ink you lay down on the material. In the final application, so with a back light, the results are „usable“ and as the currant situation in the market proofs even salable. I still come to shops, sometimes even very big shops, printing for big brands working like this. But this workaround is far away from what is possible. And I don’t even want to talk about ...

Barbieri technology mentioned in German Magazine “Werbetechnik”

Top performance in digital textile printing

Back to Barbieri ONTop performance in digital textile printingWhen it comes to digital textile printing for the fashion industry, Joe Tschudi has seen it all. He consults many printing companies worldwide in setting up the perfect print workflow. A major factor is the repeatability and reproduction of the correct colors on textile. Joe, can you explain to us what matters to establish a top performance textile workflow?Joe Tschudi:When brands or print service providers hire me to profile their equipment I always ask how they would rate their own process stability. And of course their answer is always: very good! But when we do production cycle tests it’s often the very first time that they are confronted with real numbers. Why is that so important?It manages color expectations.You can’t do a DeltaE of 1 if your process delivers a 3.Well, maybe you can do a 1 between today and tomorrow but what about reproducing the same colors a week, a month or a year later? Successfully ...

Barbieri as a part of the DyeSubCast Podcast

Color Excellence comes with verification

Back to Barbieri ONColor Excellence comes with verificationAs Founder and owner of the color management agency Colorcasters Jim Raffel dedicates his work to help customers and find solutions for their challenges in printing. In the majority of cases having color problems equals losing money, therefore a good color management workflow is key to a successful printing operation.Jim, what can be done to feel in full control of the printing process?Jim Raffel:Viktor: Jim, what can be done to feel in full control of the printing process? Jim: I think the simple answer is verification. And for me, that means what's measured gets done. In order to trust, you have to verify. And as verification is a form of measurement and so we measure, we verify we do process control, and it's a continuous cycle that goes on and on. I have a really good example:We had a client who was not making a lot of money with two dye sublimation printers. When we came in, we found the printers in bad repair.We ...

Top performance through printer calibration

Back to Barbieri ONTop performance through printer calibrationAndrea DeRossi is one of the leading color management consultants in Italy and has helped more than 700 companies with their color questions. Digital printers are expected to print the right colors, but oftentimes there is a lot of work that needs to be done to assure that.Andrea, why high color quality starts with printer calibration?Andrea De Rossi:The quality of the color in digital printing starts with the calibration of the printer because the qualitative yield and the economy of each reproduction process depends on the essential optimization of the printing machine used. You cannot start calibrating and profiling without making sure that your printer is perfectly capable of printing. By optimizing the printer you can make sure that: The condition of printing is without defects: banding, mottling, bleeding, register, ink disuniformity, maculation, etc. The technical limits of printability as a function of its ...

European research and training network ApPEARS

Barbieri electronic is partner of the European research and training network ApPEARS. Our CTO Markus Barbieri is Co-supervisor for 3 early stage researchers covering the topics of appearance measurement and ICCMax color management. These experts will develop effective and efficient industrial technology to ensure the accurate reproduction of the desired visual appearances attributes of materials/objects using 2.5D and 3D printing techniques. Whatch the following video for a explanation of ApPEARS:The international manufacturing industry is undergoing radical changes in the way items are digitally printed and fabricated. ApPEARS (Appearance Printing - European Advanced Research School) is working with a group of young researchers in order to find a strategic answer to the needs of the international manufacturing industry during the increasingly radical change. ApPEARS works with cross-industry partners to develop various research projects and create career potential. Consequently, ...

Book recommendation: Colour Management and reproduction in digital printing

Colour Management and reproduction in digital printing, written by Wissam Botros, P.Eng, CID, PMP The objective of this book is to simplify the subject of color management, no physics, no wavelengths, no unfamiliar names. This book has a practical approach. It contains many real-life examples from real life design and printing issues, their causes, and the explanation of their solutions. It explains the concepts, problems, and solutions in a vendor neutral environment, after understanding those concepts you could easily apply them on whatever software and hardware you use. Available formatsThis book is available as an e-book: ISBN: 978-1-7777573-0-4and as course in video format on Udemy: https://www.udemy.com/Look for: Colour management and reproduction in digital printing. Available on AmazonStefan Barbieri, CEO: “This book concentrates on practical problems you might encounter and suggests solutions.”

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