G7 Qualification : The Art of Maintaining Color

For Berman, the G7 qualification was a fairly straightforward process, according to Paul Hilvert, who headed up the project for the printer. “We have closed-loop color control on all of our presses, we have an automatic spectrophotometer scanning table for reading proofs and press sheets, and we pre-verified all of our presses,” he says. “If you approach this process with multiple presses that don’t run alike or run well—or maybe manually read press sheets or proofs with a handheld device—that makes the work tedious, if not difficult, and prone to error.