PrintFlat, the screening software that mitigates banding in inkjet output, will be unveiled as an online service for press vendors and their customers at Hunkeler Innovationdays 2019.
Developed by Global Graphics Software, the new website uses PrintFlat technology to generate a customised calibration that will mitigate the banding that occurs when a printbar is first built and also as inkjet heads begin to wear or are replaced. After uploading a scan of the printbar, users will receive a correction that can be applied to the press by the ScreenPro screening engine.
CTO Martin Bailey said, ‘PrintFlat.com introduces a step by step process for calibrating an inkjet press. It can work with any press that has the ScreenPro engine installed. That means that any press vendor and their customers can benefit because ScreenPro can be applied to any print industry workflow, either to a press that is already on the market, or one that is still on the drawing board. It can be used with any RIP software and any combination of inks, substrates, printheads and electronics.
‘So just as you would apply colour management to your press, now vendors and their customers have a process for applying calibration that mitigates non-uniformity across the web, which can be difficult and expensive to correct mechanically.’
Ellerhold AG, the market leader in Germany for indoor and outdoor advertising with an approximate 70% share of the German billboard market, is already using the technology. CEO Maximilian Ellerhold said, ‘Any residual visible banding has been removed. We’re now achieving 100% customer satisfaction and have increased our market share of outdoor advertising products in digital printing.’
The ScreenPro screening engine is the recipient of several industry accolades, including the InterTech Technology Award 2018. It was also featured in the 2018 Top Ten technologies in Digital Labels & Packaging.
