Troubleshooting Common Issues with Automated Color Systems in Offset Press Environments

When automated color control systems are introduced into offset press environments, several challenges can arise, impacting performance and print quality. Common issues include inaccurate ink density readings, misalignment between measurement devices and press settings, and communication errors between hardware and software components. Techkon addresses these concerns with advanced solutions like PressLink which features closed-loop feedback, real-time ink key adjustments, and user-friendly interfaces that integrate seamlessly with most offset presses. For more specific information about closed…

Inline Color Adjustment Speed: Balancing Accuracy and Responsiveness on Fast Presses

Techkon USA’s advanced inline color control solutions, such as the SpectroVision, are engineered to meet the demands of today’s high-performance printing presses by delivering fast and reliable color control. These spectrophotometers assist in achieving precise color control during rapid inline adjustments, allowing operators to identify and correct color deviations instantly without slowing down production. Unlike traditional spot-checking methods, Techkon’s technology scans entire color bars at full press speeds, ensuring on-color accuracy from the start of…

How to improve your print color quality program as a brand or private label

Print Color Quality Programs can be a challenge for global brands or private labels. The process is often very manual and labor intensive, and as such can be a high financial burden for all involved. Existing programs also typically focus primarily on print preparations (pre-press) and leave quality control during the actual production run to the print provider. This creates a major QA/QC gap in many print control programs at a critical step in the…

Match Colors Faster on Press!

Good afternoon blog fans! It’s been a little while since my last blog post and as I look ahead into 2023, I’ve got many great topics in mind to discuss with you regarding Techkon products and technologies that are “must-haves” for any printing environment. So, I am going to jump right in today with a close-up look at Techkon’s InkCheck technology. This is a feature that is built right into our SpectroDens handheld instrument and…

Choosing the Right Color QC Software Package

Brand managers and print providers can take control of their color quality process by implementing a Color QC software solution. Color QC software solutions are an essential tool in the pressroom to communicate job color standards and tolerances, provide PASS/FAIL feedback for operators, offer recommendations to quickly achieve desired color targets, and provide reporting of job color metrics to internal and external stakeholders such as brand customers. Press-side and on-press color quality solutions are available…

Color QC In The Inkroom

Greetings and welcome back to our blog! While pressroom color QC solutions are designed to help press operators get up to color faster during make-ready and improve color consistency throughout production, I want to spend a few minutes today and talk about how printers can further increase their operating efficiencies by implementing a dedicated inkroom color QC solution. Specifically, we are going to discuss the “Chroma Standards” software module that is included with Techkon’s ChromaQA…

Deployment of Press-Side Color QC Is Easier Than You Think

Good afternoon everybody and I sincerely hope you are all doing well during the COVID-19 crisis that we are all facing. Like many of you, I am currently working from home now for the foreseeable future and this has given me a chance to reflect on the many conversations I have had with printers about implementing one of our press-side color quality solutions throughout a print organization. As you probably know, these color quality or…

A Comparison of ChromaLT and ChromaQA Color QC Software

So you are a packaging printer and interested in a color quality software solution to help you reduce your make-readies, increase profitability, and produce more accurate & consistent color for your brand customers. Well, Techkon has a range of hardware and software solutions to help you achieve this goal. But today, I would like to spend a few minutes comparing and contrasting our two Chroma branded software solutions; ChromaLT and ChromaQA. At a high level,…

Multiple Measurements From One Sample

Greetings everyone and welcome to Blog 2 in our series on ChromaLT. As a reminder, ChromaLT is the ultimate companion software for your handheld pressroom spectrophotometer and by far the easiest color quality solution for packaging printers to deploy in their pressroom. Throughout this blog series, we’ll be highlighting specific pressroom use cases and illustrate how ChromaLT can increase the efficiencies of your press operators and ultimately lead to better color matches and a higher…

Chroma LT – It is Super Easy to Use

ChromaLT: The Ultimate Color Quality Solution This is the start of a mini blog series on how Techkon’s ChromaLT color quality solution really is the ultimate companion software for your handheld pressroom spectrophotometer and by far the easiest color quality solution for packaging printers to deploy in their pressroom. Throughout this blog series, we’ll be highlighting specific pressroom use cases to illustrate how ChromaLT can increase the efficiencies of your press operators and ultimately lead…

Print Quality Management

We hear a lot about “big data” these days. It’s being used to track your shopping habits, send you targeted advertising, and even develop cures for life threatening ailments such as cancer. However, I’d like to take a minute and tell you the benefits of big data as it relates to the Techkon print quality management solution called ChromaQA and how your print production environment can benefit from the power of big data. The ChromaQA print quality…

ChromaQA and the Power of Big Data

We hear a lot about “big data” these days. It’s being used to track your shopping habits, send you targeted advertising, and even develop cures for life threatening ailments such as cancer. However, I’d like to take a minute and tell you the benefits of big data as it relates to the Techkon color quality solution called ChromaQA and how your print production environment can benefit from the power of big data. The ChromaQA print…

Damn Your Eyes!

Join Steve Rankin, Techkon’s Director of Product Development at the FTA Fall Conference at the Renaissance Cleveland Hotel in Cleveland, Ohio as he discusses The 3 Most Common Problems in the Pressroom. The presentation, entitled “Damn Your Eyes” will be on Tuesday, October 30, 2018 from 3:00-4:30PM. Don’t miss this informative presentation as Steve identifies the most common problems our customers face including: Finding out on press that the color of the ink is not…

7 Signs that Your Pressroom has Outgrown its Current Color Management Solution

WHY COLOR QUALITY MANAGEMENT? Brand owners are placing ever increasing demands for zero-defect deliveries on their flexographic print supply chain. As brand owners continue to look for differentiation and easily identifiable brand colors across their product lines, they are holding printers more accountable than ever for color accuracy. Many ask printers to provide detailed quality reporting to prove the job adhered to color specifications agreed upon before the work started. As a result, the production…

Tell me again about the new Techkon ColorEnsure™ technology…

I’m glad you asked! As you may have heard, Techkon USA recently launched a completely new version of it’s ChromaQA software (version 3.0). This new software pairs with the SpectroDens spectro-densitometer to form a very comprehensive, but easy to use, pressroom color quality solution that allows packaging and commercial printers to monitor the color quality of jobs on press. This kind of real-time job monitoring provides immediate feedback to press operators regarding the color quality…