Canon’s LabelStream 4000 Series UV inkjet press has been certified ‘Pantone Capable’.
This has seen Pantone, LLC assess the press’s colour gamut relative to the full range of Pantone colours. The certificate confirms that, with the LabelStream 4000 customers can ‘reliably and consistently’ produce a wide range of Pantone colours, noted Canon.
Specifically, ‘Pantone Capable’ certification acknowledges that the LabelStream 4000 Series of 4-6 colour, industrial-scale UV inkjet label presses can cover 1740 (81.3%) of the 2140 Pantone Solid Formula Guide coated colours, using a five-colour (CMYK+O) inkset, by adopting a Delta E 2000 < 1.5 absolute tolerance. Applying a Delta E of 2, enables label converters to extend the Pantone colour coverage to 96% with only five on-press colours.
In 2020, the Canon LabelStream 4000 was also acknowledged by the German Fogra Research Institute for Media Technology as the first multicolour digital press to be certified according to the Process Standard Digital (PSD) Print Check based on the Fogra 55 7-colour reference gamut.
The Pantone certification verifies that converters can now accurately simulate and digitally print an extensive number of colours on the LabelStream 4000. Such accurately matched colours will also support the ongoing transition from conventional to digital production by eliminating the need for lengthy set-up processes to replicate colours that may have previously been out of scope.
Crit Driessen, vice president and head of digital packaging at Canon Production Printing, commented, ‘When we introduced the LabelStream 4000, we were confident that the press surpassed the capabilities of many conventional and digital presses to accurately depict a large range of spot colours.
‘With this ‘Pantone Capable’ certificate, our customers can have the same confidence that, with its achievable colour gamut and performance, the LabelStream will reliably deliver the print quality and productivity needed for a sustainable digital label business.’
