Comprehensive Evaluations
• Evaluations of paper, ink, toner, fountain solution, plate, and blanket
• Comparative print performance analysis
• Product audits
• Defect analysis
• Competitive benchmarking
• Product/grade development
• Customized corporate-sponsored studies and development activities
• Press simulation
Printing Process Measurement and Control
• Quality Map Product Analysis 
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• Custom test/control target development
Paper and Ink Characterization
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• Standard test methods (TAPPI, ISO, ASTM, NAPIM)
Paper Characterization
• Abrasion
• Caliper
• CIE whiteness; CIE color/shade
• Contact angle
• Formation, K&N oil absorption
• Grammage
• ISO brightness
• Moisture
• Opacity, scattering coefficient
• Roughness
• Sheet dimensional stability: fan-in, fan-out
• Sheet formation
• Sheet mottle: uniformity
• Sheffield or Parker print surface roughness
• Water absorption
Ink Characterization
• Color
• Grind
• Hue
• % Solids
• Set time
• Strength
• Tack
• Viscosity
• Water pick-up
Print Performance and Evaluation Criteria
Printability
• Dot analysis: gain, shape, roundness, spacing, placement
• Contrast resolution index
• Color gamut
• Gray scale densities
• Print gloss, delta gloss
• Print non-uniformity
• Print mottle
• Back trap mottle
• Banding (inkjet)
• Banded multiscreen anilox or single screen anilox (fl exographic)
• Cell skip (gravure)
• Color-to-color bleed: black line over yellow background (inkjet)
• Feathering (inkjet)
• Folder crack test (web)
• Hexacrome, Hi-Fi (sheetfed)
• Ink trapping
• Modulation transfer function
Runnability
• Contaminant test: slitter dust, milking, linting, picking (web, sheetfed)
• Wet pick vs. dry pick
• Back trap dry pick (sheetfed, web)
• Blister resistance, fiber rise (web)
• Chill marking (web)
• Ink and water balance window (web, sheetfed)
• Ink mileage (web)
Other Materials Analysis Options
• Absorption curves
• Debris analysis
• Electrophotographic print analysis
• Liquid absorption function
• Microsurface roughness
• Spectrophotometric curves
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