X-Rite Helps You Maximize the Opacity of White Ink Layers
White ink is one of the most expensive and widely used inks in packaging production, yet its optimization potential is often overlooked. This article will explore how MeasureColor can help printers maximize the opacity of white ink layers, reduce waste, and optimize overall printing performance, as well as the benefits of color density meters for inks.
The Importance of White Ink
When printing on transparent materials, metallic substrates, or colored media, white ink is a crucial base layer. It ensures that brand colors appear vibrant and visually consistent. However, due to its high usage and cost, inefficient application can lead to a surge in material waste and rising production expenses.
Core Challenge: Balancing Opacity and Efficiency
To make sure the visuals pop, most manufacturers tend to print the white ink layer extra thick and opaque. This often leads to overuse of ink. With MeasureColor, printers can precisely control the opacity of white ink and monitor it in real time, ensuring quality while avoiding unnecessary costs.
Major breakthrough: 3% opacity change = 33.3% ink savings
Small tweaks can lead to big gains. Just reducing the opacity of the white layer by 3% can cut usage by 33.3%, with no visible impact on print quality. MeasureColor helps users easily find the sweet spot between performance and efficiency.
MeasureColor Solutions
MeasureColor software empowers press operators with easy-to-understand views and actionable data guidance:
● Monitor white ink coverage in real time
● Track white ink performance across jobs and substrates
● Make quick decisions for ink optimization
Whether you're printing labels, folding cartons, or flexible packaging, MeasureColor can seamlessly integrate into your workflow.
More than just cost savings: operational benefits
Reducing the use of white ink triggers multiple positive effects in the printing workshop:
● Shorter drying cycles
● Less substrate deformation
● Improved production turnaround
● Reduced environmental impact
MeasureColor is driving the printing industry towards smarter and more sustainable practices!
Optimizing white ink layers is a strategic opportunity that packaging printing companies haven't tapped into yet. MeasureColor helps you unlock cost-saving potential, ensure print quality, and build an efficient operation system through precise measurement of key indicators.
Advanced Color Quality Control Management
As a new-generation color measurement device, eXact2 meets the demanding requirements of printing, ink, and packaging professionals. Its design is smart and precise, pioneering the use of Mantis video target positioning technology. You no longer have to worry about color tolerance issues, substrate costs, material shortages, training new staff, slow measurement speeds, or unresponsive instruments.
The eXact/eXact 2 Advanced not only lets you check the colors of CMYK and spot inks, but it can also measure in four M modes at the same time to show the spectral reflectance of substrates or inks, measure the density of spot inks, and check color differences of substrates or inks on white and black backgrounds. The eXact/eXact 2 Advanced color densitometer can also connect to PantoneLIVE and NetProfiler, which really boosts color accuracy in your workflow. It's perfect for ink rooms, quality control labs, and printing and packaging production facilities.
