Xeikon has brought to market its brand new XCS Pro 2.0, a fully automated suite of colour management tools.
Based in the Cloud and claimed to deliver ‘every advantage of quality colour control’, such as predictability, repeatability and profitability, Xeikon identified how brand owners and retailers, and the current high levels of e-commerce continue to drive the need for colour consistency across the whole of the print process.
XCS Pro 2.0 is said to offer printers, ‘the predictability and confidence to be able to match digital brand colours alongside the results from other processes.’ Printers can more easily match spot and brand colours as Xeikon’s new colour tools ‘remove all guess work’ and avoid down time resulting from trial and error. Repeatability and consistent quality were an early design specification of Xeikon’s Color Control toolbox, to allow for reproduction of any job at any time with the exact same quality. Using the inline spectrophotometer supplied with all Xeikon dry toner engines, colour management becomes touchless and automatic. Last minute tweaks can also be made, on the fly, and profiles, colour tables and quality control are all controlled by AI during production. The new colour package also includes training courses plus ongoing consultancy. It is offered as a ‘pay as you go’ subscription model.
Bruce Dransfield, a colour management expert at Xeikon, said, ‘Historically colour management software has needed an expert to deliver results and this takes time. Xeikon has developed its XCS Pro 2.0 as a ‘no waste’, ‘no expert’ fully automated colour system.
‘Xeikon has built its new colour management system’s architecture to enable it to remotely analyse, target and fix any colour problem in minutes. Xeikon’s Cloud-based analytical tools can diagnose any colour issue and the issue is sorted with no delays which adds to significant time savings in production.’
He continued, ‘Xeikon now has the first digital dry toner, web press solution that embraces self-fixing colour control, quality control and ICC profiling, plus Pantone/brand colour generation to meet all industry standards.’
