Centralized Color Quality & Reporting for Pressroom Managers
As a pressroom manager, you’re responsible for delivering consistent, high-quality output—every shift, every job, every site. But when color quality data is scattered across spreadsheets, machines, and departments, it’s nearly impossible to get a clear picture of performance. Manual logging slows down your team. Recurring issues go unnoticed. Audits become a scramble. And every inefficiency chips away at your margins.
This brief explores how centralized color quality reporting can help you take control of your pressroom operations, reduce waste, and improve consistency, without adding complexity.
Challenges
Challenges in the Pressroom
- Quality data is logged manually or isolated at work centers
- No visibility across shifts, presses, or locations
- Operators rely on memory or inconsistent procedures
- Recurring issues are hard to detect and resolve
- Benchmarking performance is time-consuming or impossible
- Audit preparation is reactive and inefficient
- Margin erosion from rework, delays, and waste
Solution
Centralized dashboards give you a single source of truth for every job, shift, and site. With real-time scoring and automated data capture, you can:
- Monitor press performance in real time
- Compare output across shifts, machines, and operators
- Identify trends and recurring issues early
- Standardize quality expectations across your team
- Simplify reporting and audit readiness
- Make proactive decisions that protect profitability
Results
Benefits for Pressroom Managers
- Reduce setup time by up to 60%
- Cut make-ready waste by up to 30%
- Lower substrate waste by up to 80%
- Boost color consistency across shifts
- Enhance team performance visibility
How it Works
- Centralized Setup: Configure the MeasureColor server to unify targets, settings, user permissions, and measurement data. Digital references like color libraries can be imported to align with your workflow.
- Press-Side Integration: Install MeasureColor client software on press-side workstations. Devices like the eXact 2 connect directly, enabling seamless color measurement without additional software.
- Smart Adaptation by Print Method: The software automatically adjusts to your print process—offset, flexo, gravure, digital, or specialty—displaying tailored views such as ink zones or flexo dashboards.
- Real-Time Data Capture: Measurements are instantly saved to the central server, ensuring consistent capture across shifts, presses, and locations.
- Global Dashboard Access: With MeasureColor Reports enabled, dashboards update in real time and are accessible from any browser, anywhere in the world—no installation required.
- Actionable Insights: Dashboards deliver visibility into job progress, ink performance, operator comparisons, and KPIs—empowering proactive decisions, faster troubleshooting, and audit readiness.
Featured Products
MeasureColor Reports
Gain real-time visibility into pressroom performance with browser-based dashboards that track job progress, ink behavior, and operator KPIs.
MeasureColor Production
Streamline color measurement at the press with software that adapts to your print method, captures data instantly, and standardizes quality expectations across shifts and sites.
eXact 2
Connect this handheld spectrophotometer directly to MeasureColor for seamless, press-side color measurement—enabling faster setup, reduced waste, and consistent results.
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