X-Rite adds eXact SCTV

The eXact SCTV configuration has been developed to allow commercial and package printers to verify tone value for spot colors that 'correlate well' with visual appearance. With this latest firmware update to the eXact family, X-Rite said printers will be able to more easily verify both spot and process colors that brands specify using the new standard.

The software update enables users to separately configure the tone value formula for spot colors as well as CMYK. Configurations are available for tone value, tone value increase (TVI) or dot gain, TVI table and print characteristics.

A new search function in eXact provides access to color standards such as Pantone and apply them to a job. Users can now select Pantone or a standard from another color library, by name or number. Additional updates are designed to further improve the user experience.

Current customers can download the eXact update here.

Ray Cheydleur, printing and imaging product portfolio manager at X-Rite, said: ‘X-Rite now provides SCTV support across our eXact family, IntelliTrax2 and ColorCert Suite 3.0 process control software, providing customers with the color management and workflow tools required to meet evolving industry standards, better formulate inks and take into account the effect of substrates on color.’

Steve Smiley, principle at SmileyColor and Associates, added: ‘X-Rite has added functionality for SCTV that can create equidistant visual appearance of tints aligned with PDF and Adobe and other creation software. This allows for common appearance curve for spot color printing and alignment across digital print, proofing, flexo, offset and gravure. The X-Rite solution can be set-up to always use traditional Murray-Davies for CMYK and SCTV for spot delivery as shown to the user in a single screen.

‘As our industry is printing more spot and extended gamut work, the addition of SCTV will save time, waste and improve communications from design through print.’