New CxF Spot Color Matching Solution

In the label and packaging industry, spot colors are often used to accurately reproduce brand colors. Especially in spot color printing the color exchange format, CxF, is known for more than 10 years as one of the best methods to capture and to transmit all details of a color.

Unlike the conventional ICC profiles, CxF data include the spectral information of the spot color including halftones and transmittance – and therefore allow accurate color calculations and an optimal basis for a precise color reproduction at any time.

However, the generation of CxF data takes an enormous amount of time as it requires printing charts, measuring colors for each printing condition and target values – this might be the reason why its spread is so far limited.

But the number of digital printer increases, printing methods have diversified and a growing need for skill-less independent color management solutions that reliably ensure reproducing consistent colors across the fleet – even when switching from a flexographic printing press to a digital printing press, or from a digital printing press to another digital printing press – becomes apparent.

In response to these market demands, SCREEN Graphic Solutions Co., Ltd. (SCREEN GA) and CGS ORIS have developed a technology that predicts halftones from limited colorimetric data by using a proprietary algorithm and automatically generates complete CxF data.