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Technology Focus
Colour Correct
Colour Graphic Services is bringing Myiro colour measurement to ANZ to enable on the spot colour measurement.
David Crowther of Colour Graphic Services, aka ‘The Colour Doctor’ has brought all the latest G7 and Idealliance
knowledge to Australia – and
is now also supplying the new range of Myiro colour measuring instruments, with ICC profiling software.
The Myiro-1 is a hand-held spectrophotometer, and its big brother for super-fast automated chart reading is the Myiro-9.
Myiro instruments are manufactured in Japan to stringent tolerances by a division of Konica Minolta – Konica Minolta Sensing.
The Myiro-1 can be used to measure single patches and it also comes with a silky-smooth strip and chart measuring guide.
The Myiro-9 is an auto-scanning spectrophotometer which can accurately read a 1,500-patch chart in only four minutes – ideal when profiling multiple substrates or in a busy print shop where there are many job changes.
The Myiro-1 connects using Wi-Fi, so no tangled cables. Connection can be to the majority of third-party CM
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Auto-scanning chart-reading spectropho- tometer: Myiro-9
software, or to Myiro Tools colour management software for analysing, displaying and profiling with ease.
Myiro does not replace Techkon instruments, in fact, in the USA Techkon has become a Myiro reseller too, since it does not have an automated chart-reader or general purpose hand-held unit to fit into the prepress area.
In addition to the Myiro-1 and Myiro-9 Colour Graphic Services also supplies the Techkon SpectroDens, SpectroPlate, SpectroDrive and Dens.
Crowther is also the appointed Idealliance G7 Expert certified trainer for Australasia and also audits and certifies printers under ISO 12647 using the Mellow Colour Proficient Printer PrintSpec system.
“We hold G7 Expert certification training courses periodically on- line and can also conduct on-site ‘classroom’ training for larger print groups, says Crowther.
The company also supplies
Eizo calibratable monitors. It also has several local installations of Printflow – an automated ink control system that can be retrofitted to both older and new presses. This too will be demonstrated.
Crowther adds: “Increasingly, brand managers want their colours to match across devices, be they offset, flexo, digital, inkjet,
toner or RGB monitors. As more commercial offset printers adopt wide format, there is an expectation of consistency between, say, flatbed UV printers, sheetfed digital and
an eight-colour long perfector.
The same applies to narrow-web flexographic printers and their digital devices.” 21
As more commercial offset printers adopt wide format, there is an expect- ation of consistency between, say, flatbed UV printers, sheetfed digital, and an eight-colour long perfector.
Other colour tools
Viewing conditions are important in assessing print, with Colour Graphics supplying the Just Normlicht
ISO 3664 LED viewing system for what it says is “perfect, consistent assessment” of colour under controlled D50 illumination.
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