EFI’s new colour-chart-reading spectrophotometer automates and streamlines the press profiling process in Fiery-driven digital colour production printing environments. The new EFI ES-6000 Scanning Network Spectrophotometer is fully integrated into EFI Fiery Digital Front End (DFE) workflows. As a result, printers can quickly and easily update profiles and verify colour to ensure “the best possible colour output” from their digital presses. The EFI ES-6000 can read thousands of colour patches in minutes and accommodates M0, M1 and M2 measurement illumination conditions, allowing users to manage the complexities of measuring optically brightened substrates commonly used in digital printing. The device can read up to 2,500 patches on a single A3/tabloid sheet in 10 minutes. No set-up or IT staff involvement is required.
“Making sure that press profiles are up to date and digital presses are properly calibrated can be a challenge,” said John Henze, Vice President of Marketing, EFI Fiery (pictured previously). “The award-winning Fiery Color Profiler Suite combined with the EFI ES-6000 Scanning Network Spectrophotometer solves this issue, providing important colour management advantages for EFI Fiery users with multiple digital presses.”
The spectrophotometer (supplied through EFI’s relationship with X-Rite) and EFI Fiery Color Profiler Suite are integrated to offer “next-generation” digital print colour measurement. Using the spectrophotometer on a print shop’s local access network makes it ideal for efficient colour management of multiple print engines in a single shop location. Employees can use the Fiery Color Profiler Suite to print colour patch pages that are then fed into the ES-6000 in any order for automated measurement. The device then automatically communicates results back to the correct user to enable efficient completion of colour management or verification processes.
EFI introduces ES-6000 automated scanning spectrophotometer
