| Analysis |
| Decision Table |
| Is Spectrophotometry Necessary? |
Must-have Feature |
Preferred type of device |
Achievable performance |
Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
Densitometry measurement |
Colorimetric devices |
3-color colorimetric devices - identification of colored patches location |
Spectrophotometers do not contribute additional relevant information and have drawbacks |
Ignoring irrelevant changes (i.e. randomly occurring artifacts) |
Many pixels per each color-bar patch |
2x2 mm patch |
|
Trend analysis |
Non sampling device (100% control) |
Every sheet monitoring in full width |
|
Multi-purpose device |
One sensor - many applications |
In one device:
|
|
Dot gain analysis in half tones. |
Controlling several tones (Full tones and Half tones). Use of many small patches on color-bar |
Full tone, Mid-Tone and additional tones (25% & 50%) are possible. 2x2 mm patches are achievable |
|
Slim color-bars |
2 mm color-bars |
2 mm color-bars |
|
Speed |
High speed |
Up to 18,000 sheets per hour |