Idealliance, an international organization dedicated to workflow processes and technologies for the printing industry, has awarded G7 System Certification and G7 Press Control System Certification to two Koenig & Bauer color control and color reporting systems: Instrument Flight Color Control by System Brunner and the newest version of its QualityPass software for sheet-fed presses. Koenig & Bauer reports that it is the only press manufacturer to hold two important G7 System Certifications.
Last fall, the Idealliance G7 Press Control System Certification program confirmed that Koenig & Bauer’s Instrument Flight Control technology by System Brunner can monitor and control a production press run according to G7 gray balance and tonality specifications. The Koenig & Bauer Instrument Flight Control technology by System Brunner is said to be the world’s first press control system to elevate G7 from a calibration procedure to a complete process control system from prepress to pressroom.
In addition to G7 metrics, Instrument Flight also monitors and controls TVI (dot gain) in the individual colors, the spread of TVI, solid ink densities, L*a*b* colorimetric targets and more of a reference print condition or standard such as GRACoL, ISO 12647-2, the System Brunner Globalstandard® or any specific company targets.
Version 8 of QualityPass provides extensive reports on the quality and consistency of print produced and provides a score as a percentage against the required fields of the ISO 12647-2 standard such as CIE LAB values, dot gain (TVI) and trapping.
Left to right: Chris Travis, KBA North America Director of Technology; Daniel Würgler, President and CEO of System Brunner AG; and Eric Frank, KBA North America Senior Vice president of Marketing and Product Management.
