Beta Industries launches LED-based densitometers

Beta Industries has launched the next generation of its automatic LED-based densitometers. The company says that advantages of LED technology for the printer include instant 1/10 second measuring; no buttons to press for density, dot gain or gray balance; 500,000 measurements from two AA batteries; and no calibration necessary during normal use due to LED stability.  

All units, from the entry level S2 XPress and mid level S4 XPress to the S7 XPress spectro-densitometer, are ‘one touch’, programmable for up to as many as four working ‘OK’ sheet standards, and feature  ‘pass/fail’ red/green flashing LEDs to instantly tell the user when measurements are within the desired printing tolerance or if press correction is needed for density, dot gain, gray balance, L*a*b, Delta E (S7 units), and other parameters.