BST and X-Rite announce co-development partnership

BST International, a manufacturer of quality assurance systems for the web processing industry, and X-Rite, a supplier of color management technology, are jointly developing a real-time inline spectral color measurement system.

The cooperation will allowboth inline spectral measurement system and stationary handhelds to deliver comparable results, say the companies, meaning the system can provide an answer to the ever-growing need to provide both reliable inline and offline data on specified colors over the entire print production.

The partnership has assembled a team of engineers from both companies to solve the challenge of developing a fully automated and real time accurate spectral inline system that can deliver the precision and exact results required in the flexo, gravure and narrow web market.

‘Ensuring color control is the decisive key issue for the flexo, gravure and narrow web printing industry community,’ said Percy Dengler, BST International’s managing director.‘We at BST International are thrilled to be working with X-Rite to bring a jointly devised concept to X-Rite’s industry-leading color measurement technology.’

‘Combined with our extensive experience in web quality assuring technology this will result in a system creating a new era in press color control in this field,’ said Michael Wiebe, BST’s CTO.

‘We are very excited to partner with BST and through the association of our know-how, IP and talents, to build a solution that sets new milestones in color driven value creation in flexo and gravure workflows,’ commented Dr Francis Lamy, X-Rite’s CTO.

‘Through our partnership with BST International, we are expanding and leveraging our reach and leading position in inline color control technology into the flexo, gravure and narrow web printing market.

‘The increasing demand in the packaging field makes it not only a very attractive large growth segment in the printing business, but it also represents a segment that values greatly accurate color: brand color reliability is an essential element of the customers’ perception that enables brand loyalty.

‘Through these types of systems, associated to the Pantone standards, and all the tools that X-Rite develops around the Pantone standard to increase its relevance and ease of use in specifications and design application, we believe this will facilitate and enable value creation for brand owners and all actors in this ecosystem at large.’  

Pictured l-r: X-Rite’s and BST’s CTOs Francis Lamy and Michael Wiebe

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