The Journey to Closed Loop Color Control: Spectrophotometers & Steps to Implement Automation

摘要

As has happened in so many other industries in the past, the flexographic printing market is making the journey from human judgment being "good enough," to "process monitoring," to "process control," all the way to full automation for closed loop color control. As stakeholders have become more and more aware of color's importance and sought to minimize waste, the industry evolved from subjective human judgment to objective device measurement. Eventually this evolution led to the handheld spectrophotometers we see today in the general print industry.