Shrinking Presses, Rising Profits

Along with support for a CIP4 interface, Mitsubishi's Mullen sees an industry trend toward adding closed-loop color control systems to sheetfed presses. This is done by incorporating scanning densitometer or spectrophotometer systems, he says. Heidelberg's Dowey agrees, noting that most press manufacturers now offer at least an entry-level system for closed-loop measurement and control of color bars via scanning spectrophotometers.