Xeikon brought to market its brand new XCS Pro 2.0.
The fully automated suite of color management tools is based in the cloud and, according to Xeikon, delivers every advantage of quality color control – predictability, repeatability and profitability.
“Historically color management software has needed an expert to deliver results and this takes time. Xeikon has developed its XCS Pro 2.0 as a ‘no waste’ ‘no expert’, fully automated color system," Xeikon’s Color Management Expert Bruce Dransfield said. "Xeikon now has the first digital dry toner, web press solution which embraces self-fixing color control, quality control and ICC profiling plus Pantone/brand color generation to meet all industry standards. Xeikon has built its new color management system’s architecture to enable it to remotely analyze, target and fix any color problem in minutes. Xeikon’s cloud-based analytical tools can diagnose any color issue and the issue is sorted with no delays which add to significant time savings in production.”
According to Xeikon:
- The quality control tools can be set to industry standards – either theoretical, ‘process corrected’ or ‘house’ standards and results are measured and traced using the new analytics in Xeikon’s cloud-based system;
- It is also possible for the operator to fix and re-verify the color quality of the print on the fly;
- Xeikon’s dry toner engines are all fitted with inline spectrophotometers to automatically make this possible during production saving on waste and rejected jobs;
- Xeikon’s new suite of color management software contains tools that can copy and paste from a pre-printed sample to optimize the brand color for the selected substrate;
- Xeikon uses .CxF (color exchange format) to communicate with tools found in the analog world such as Flint Group’s VIVO or Pantone LIVE as well as proofing systems.