Prepress
X-Rites Optical Brighter Compensation Module Wins Gold Trophy for Technology Innovation at German Printing Industry Innovation Awards
Wednesday 17. March 2010 - X-Rite, Incorporated (NASDAQ: XRIT), the world leader in color management, measurement and communication technologies, announced that its i1iSis automated high speed chart measurements solution with Optical Brightener Compensation (OBC) module was awarded the gold trophy for technology at the German Printing Industry's Innovation Awards (Innovationspreis der Deutschen Druckindustrie).
X-Rite’s groundbreaking technology was chosen among ten shortlisted products by the readers of Deutscher Drucker, Versio!, Publishing Praxis and Grafische Palette, as the industry’s most innovative solution in the pre-press category.
Used in conjunction with X-Rite’s i1iSis family of automatic spectral chart readers, X-Rite’s OBC solution allows users in color-critical proofing and printing environments to effectively and precisely compensate for color shifts in custom ICC output profiles caused by Optical Brightening Agents (OBAs) in papers and other printing substrates. With X-Rite’s optical brightener correction solution, i1iSis users are able to achieve visual equivalence between color measurement results obtained from instruments, and the visual appearance of a sample in a viewing booth.
X-Rite’s award-winning technology offers a complete solution for applications that require consistent color measurements and visualization of printed output in the prepress (proofing), printing and photo (studio printing and fine art) markets. The combination of the OBC Module with i1iSis’ unique spectral measurement technology, additional UV LED illumination features and X-Rite’s powerful profiling software, allows users to capture the full spectral data of the charts they measure, effectively and precisely compensate for color shifts caused by brightening agents, while still taking full advantage of the higher whiteness levels and sharper image contrasts offered by substrates containing OBAs.