About
The Print and Materials Analysis Laboratory (PMAL) is an independent testing laboratory, equipped with state-of-the-art instrumentation and technical staff with expertise in industry printing, color, and materials evaluation standards, including ISO, ASTM, DIN, FINAT, and TAPPI. PMAL has established long-term relationships and an excellent reputation supporting the quality assurance, troubleshooting, and product development efforts of diverse companies from around the world. Specific services include comparative print performance analysis, color printing & raw material audits, defect analysis, and competitive benchmarking, in addition to industry sponsored programs including the IDEAlliance Proofing and Digital Press System Certification Programs and and the ColorLok, and ColorPro media evaluation programs.
RIT experts participate in industry standards development, including IDEAlliance Print Proerties Committee, CGATS, and ISO TC 130.
For a complete description of services we provide to the industry, click here.
Instrumentation
- Image Pro Plus Image Analyzer
- KDY Image Analyzer
- Verity IA Image Analyzer
- Datacolor SF600 Plus Colorimeter
- Gardner Glossmeter (20,60,75)
- Technidyne S-4 Brightness Tester
- Technidyne Technibrite Micro TB – 1C
- Betaflex 334 Flexo System Analyzer
- IGT F1 Flexography Printability Tester
- IGT AIC2-5 & High Speed Inking Unit
- Elmendorf Tearing Tester
- MIT Folding Endurance Tester
- Scott Internal Bond Tester
- Taber V-5 Stiffness Tester
- Sutherland Rub Tester
- Taber Abrasion Tester
- Sheffield Smoothness / Porosity Tester
- Parker Print Surf Roughness /
Porosity Tester - TMI Micrometer
- Larray Falling Rod Viscometer
- Brookfield Low Shear Viscometer
- Thwing Albert Inkometer
- Duke water pickup Tester
- Mettler AG204 analytical scale
- Asher, Thermolyne 1500 Furnace
- Moisture analyzer, gravimetric method
- Fisher Auto Tensiomat
- Apparent Surface Tension Meter
- Motorized Little Joe Proof Press
- X-Rite® Auto-Tracking Spectrophotometer System
- GretagMacbeth Spectrolino/SpectroScan
- Spectrophotometer
- GretagMacbeth SpectroEye
- X-Rite® 528 & 938 SpectroDensitometer
- iCColor
- iOne
- Paprican Dynamic sorption Tester
- Gurley Banding Resistance Tester
- Keithley Electrometer
- Keithley 8009 Resistivity Test Fixture
- Gurley Densitometer
- TMI 32-07 Series Friction Tester






