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Produce reliable quality. Prinect color measurement systems.

Our areas

Equipment

Rely on future-proof printing and further processing by combining digital and offset printing. Our portfolio for printing machines ranges from cutting-edge digital technologies and offset printing machines attractively equipped as standard to individually configured special machines for maximum productivity and every possible print application. From prepress to postpress – we enable the entire printing process for commercial and packaging printing. Our machines are networked through the Prinect work-flow and can thus exchange production data: for the sake of optimum pro-cesses and transparency. Make uncompromising quality your standard.

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Service

Our comprehensive range of services gives you more time for the essen-tials. With our Technical Services we offer you fast, efficient, and reliable access to our expertise and all the original parts – our service technicians are always close-by. With our Performance Services we work with you to optimize your productivity in all areas of production. Our industry-specific solutions also make us a competent partner in financial matters.

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Consumables

You can rely on our know-how and coordinated materials for impressive results. We offer you various complete packages of consumables, allowing you to concentrate fully and entirely on your core competencies. With our online shop, we offer easy access unparalleled in the industry to all the products you need.

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A partnership that pays off. Heidelberger Druckmaschinen.

The key to your success lies in the coordinated interaction of people, pro-cesses, materials, and machines. We are a reliable and competent partner for all your printing needs. Our user-friendly systems, customized products, and innovative services deliver maximum production quality, make con-trolling complex processes easier, and help you to avoid errors – all along your production chain. The result: Efficiency at the touch of a button. We call it Simply Smart. The advantage for you: simpler and more produc-tive processes thanks to an intelligent, comprehensive, and integrated portfolio optimally tailored to your needs. › heidelberg.com/company

Contents

04Heidelberg color measurement systems

06Hitting and holding colors

086 clear benefits

09Prinect Easy Control

10Prinect Axis Control

11Prinect Image Control 3

12Prinect Inpress Control 2

14Color workflow with Prinect

15Print Color Management

16How the measurement systems measure up

17Prinect Inspection Control 2

18Your dialog with Heidelberg

Our areas

Equipment

Rely on future-proof printing and further processing by combining digital and offset printing. Our portfolio for printing machines ranges from cutting-edge digital technologies and offset printing machines attractively equipped as standard to individually configured special machines for maximum productivity and every possible print application. From prepress to postpress – we enable the entire printing process for commercial and packaging printing. Our machines are networked through the Prinect work-flow and can thus exchange production data: for the sake of optimum pro-cesses and transparency. Make uncompromising quality your standard.

› heidelberg.com/en/equipment

Service

Our comprehensive range of services gives you more time for the essen-tials. With our Technical Services we offer you fast, efficient, and reliable access to our expertise and all the original parts – our service technicians are always close-by. With our Performance Services we work with you to optimize your productivity in all areas of production. Our industry-specific solutions also make us a competent partner in financial matters.

› heidelberg.com/en/service

Consumables

You can rely on our know-how and coordinated materials for impressive results. We offer you various complete packages of consumables, allowing you to concentrate fully and entirely on your core competencies. With our online shop, we offer easy access unparalleled in the industry to all the products you need.

› heidelberg.com/en/consumables

A partnership that pays off. Heidelberger Druckmaschinen.

The key to your success lies in the coordinated interaction of people, pro-cesses, materials, and machines. We are a reliable and competent partner for all your printing needs. Our user-friendly systems, customized products, and innovative services deliver maximum production quality, make con-trolling complex processes easier, and help you to avoid errors – all along your production chain. The result: Efficiency at the touch of a button. We call it Simply Smart. The advantage for you: simpler and more produc-tive processes thanks to an intelligent, comprehensive, and integrated portfolio optimally tailored to your needs. › heidelberg.com/company

Contents

04Heidelberg color measurement systems

06Hitting and holding colors

086 clear benefits

09Prinect Easy Control

10Prinect Axis Control

11Prinect Image Control 3

12Prinect Inpress Control 2

14Color workflow with Prinect

15Print Color Management

16How the measurement systems measure up

17Prinect Inspection Control 2

18Your dialog with Heidelberg

The full spectrum of colors. Heidelberg color measurement systems.

Exact color reproduction plays an important role in the modern brand environment. With packagings, labels, and commercial print jobs, it all comes down to fast recognition and unique identification of the brand and product. Colors are a crucial part of this. Commercial and printing packaging therefore requires abso-lute repeat precision, even for the shortest of production runs. The colors need to look exactly the same in different media. This calls for a color measuring technology that goes far beyond conventional density and camera-based evaluations. The spectral measuring technology developed by Heidelberg® meets this requirement with extremely high precision. The unique and patented ink control system reproducibly corrects even the smallest deviations. Our color measurement systems also offer the highest level of automation in conjunction with our high efficient presses. There are no long setup times involved, so you can get printing faster and save time for other jobs. Whether measuring the entire print image or permanently displaying the color deviation ΔE during the production run, the color measurement systems have a number of unique selling points that make them shine. And what is most important: they will also help you to be successful with your customers.

The full spectrum of colors. Heidelberg color measurement systems.

Exact color reproduction plays an important role in the modern brand environment. With packagings, labels, and commercial print jobs, it all comes down to fast recognition and unique identification of the brand and product. Colors are a crucial part of this. Commercial and printing packaging therefore requires abso-lute repeat precision, even for the shortest of production runs. The colors need to look exactly the same in different media. This calls for a color measuring technology that goes far beyond conventional density and camera-based evaluations. The spectral measuring technology developed by Heidelberg® meets this requirement with extremely high precision. The unique and patented ink control system reproducibly corrects even the smallest deviations. Our color measurement systems also offer the highest level of automation in conjunction with our high efficient presses. There are no long setup times involved, so you can get printing faster and save time for other jobs. Whether measuring the entire print image or permanently displaying the color deviation ΔE during the production run, the color measurement systems have a number of unique selling points that make them shine. And what is most important: they will also help you to be successful with your customers.

Spectral measurement alone will not ensure optimum coloring during printing. What is crucial is the adjustment of the ink zones. Colorimetric control from Heidelberg is the only shortcut to the desired, standard-compliant result.

When density alone is not enough. Hitting and holding colors.

Impressive color accuracy with Prinect color measurement systems• Spectral measurements and colorimetric control• Polarization filters for density and tonal value

measurement• Display of density, achievement of target color ΔE, dot

gain, slurring/doubling, best match• Visual control thanks to graphic display of the color

deviations in all color zones• Fully automatic readjustment and simultaneous adjust-

ment of all ink zone motors• Color archive with Pantone and HKS colors for faster

achievement of color• Archive for customer-specific colors• ISO standards stored• Reports via Prinect® Analyze Point: operating data,

color reports and certificates, quality management

Modern color measurement systems work on the basis of a spectralphotometer. These systems have the advantage of seeing more, and therefore also supply more information than traditional densitometers. In addition to the colori-metric values CIEL*a*b* and ΔE, they also supply the density as an important control variable for the printer and the dot gain derived from it.

This type of ink control is crucial in ensuring that our color measurement systems hit the colors more exactly. This is because unlike density control, where the adjustment of the ink zone motors is based exclusively on the measured difference in density, we are calculating the adjustment from the colorimetric, i.e. the visually visible, difference.

You can see this difference. Because the color can look dif-ferent even if the density is the same. Only colorimetric control enables you to stably control pastel tones or directly notice ink soiling right up to the accidental use of the wrong ink.

Another advantage is that colorimetric control enables you to measure a color sample once, and then immediately achieve the desired shade at the press. If the color sample or reference color cannot be produced with the ink in the ink fountain, this is indicated immediately – before the run is printed and can result in a complaint later from the cus-tomer. Three percent of all complaints are still down to the wrong inks being used!

The intelligent factory: Prinect – the integrated print and media workflow.

• Software modules for automated and transparent production control.

• Prinect Production integrates prepress, digital and offset printing as well as postpress.

• Prinect Portal opens digital doors, irrespective of working and production times.

• Prinect Business links administration with production.

• Prinect Media permits modern media communica-tion, both online and printed.

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Leader in color measurement. 6 clear benefits*.

Density control*Distinctly different colors.

Colorimetric control*Identical colors.

Even though the density in the two examples is almost the same, the visual difference is clear to see. *The examples simulate the difference between density control and colorimetric control.

until the desired coloring with Prinect Inpress Control 2.

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With standardized printing with optimized ink presetting using Prinect Pressroom Manager and Color Assistant Pro.

Ecology

Less paper waste, better environmental protection.

The Prinect color measurement systems enable you to make much more effective use of your resources. You save twice – ecologically and economically. 7.5 t of CO2.

For average production runs of 5,000 sheets, the environmental load per 1 million printed sheets drops by

The result: a healthy environment – and a healthy balance sheet.

Productivity

In packaging printing, every millimeter of cardboard counts. Prinect Image Control 3 measures Mini Spots placed in different locations on the printed sheet and by so doing delivers an annual average saving of up to of cardboard.

Makeready times

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Color spectrum

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Ink control Color calculator with color modelColor deviation ΔE, ΔF

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Launching true-color production. Prinect Easy Control.

Prinect Easy Control is the ideal entry point into spectral measuring technology – easy to use, yet with the precision you would expect from Heidelberg. Prinect Easy Control is also the most economical system in its class. Job and color information are stored together and easy to recall for reprints at any time. The system is integrated in the press control station to save space. The printer can carry out checks without leaving his work station, and concentrate on print quality at all times. The high measuring speed of 150 mm/second ensures continuous productivity: an A3 sheet takes only three seconds to measure.

Prinect Easy Control:• Integrated in the press control station• Powered horizontal measuring head travel, manual verti-

cal setting• Sheet fixing with gripper magnets and rollers under the

measuring head

Highlights:• High measuring speed of 150 mm/second (5.91 in/sec.)• Common storage of job and color information for faster

inking-up on repeat jobs• Automatic detection of the print control strip saves time

and eliminates the need for manual assignment• Free positioning of the control strip on the printed sheet

(e.g. leading edge, center, trailing edge) for flexibility and material savings

› You can find more information on Prinect Easy Control here: heidelberg.com/en/easycontrol

One copy just like the next. Prinect Image Control 3.

When it comes down to absolutely uniform inking over the entire sheet, you are always on the safe side with Prinect Image Control® 3. No other unit in the world spec-trally scans the whole print sheet and balances out even the smallest deviations in the print image – automatically. It automatically detects not only all measuring elements but also solid areas using the prepress data and incorpo-rates them into the control process.

CMYK images and halftone areas can be perfectly corrected using print samples and proofs. Prinect Image Control 3 is the first measuring instrument to not only be able to measure opaque white, but also control it. This permits much more reliable control of the chromatic colors when printing on foils or metal surfaces.

Prinect Image Control 3:• Standalone color measurement system for connection to

up to four Speedmaster® printing presses• Autofocus to compensate for different printing substrate

thicknesses• Space-saving micro print control strips can be used with-

out restriction across all formats• Additional display of the color deviation on the

Wallscreen XL of the Prinect Press Center XL 2• Netprofiler for colorimetric calibration

Highlights:• Extremely high resolution of 50 million pixels or

CIEL*a*b* values• Proof Match for faster alignment of the finished print

with proofs and print samples• Vacuum suction for optimum flatness• Automatic feedback of color data and tone values to the

Prinect prepress workflow with Color Interface

› You can find more information on Prinect Image Control 3 here: heidelberg.com/en/imagecontrol3

High-performance quality assurance. Prinect Axis Control.

Prinect Axis Control® is the high-performance color mea-surement system for packaging and commercial printing. Setup consists exclusively of assigning the inks. And even this is only necessary if something changes. The print control strip is automatically located and recognized on the printed sheet, as is the paper white. This means that Prinect Axis Control measures every job around three minutes faster than comparable equipment.

The maintenance-free LED lighting dispenses with costly bulb changes. A strong vacuum and automatic tracking of the print control strip almost virtually eliminate measuring errors and therefore repeat measurements.

Prinect Axis Control:• Operation and display via the Prinect Press Center® XL 2

touchscreen• Additional color deviation display on the Wallscreen XL • Measuring head with powered horizontal and vertical

travel• Autofocus to compensate for different printing substrate

out restriction across all formats • Netprofiler for colorimetric calibration

Highlights:• Fastest spectrophotometer in its class, with a measuring

speed of 200 mm/second (7.87 in/sec.)• Automatic print control strip tracking, including sheets

in an inclined position• Maintenance-free LED lighting for long service life and

cost savings

› You can find more information on Prinect Axis Control here: heidelberg.com/en/axiscontrol

Setup without stopping. Prinect Inpress Control 2.

The spectral measurement system Prinect Inpress Control 2, the only one of its kind in the world, finds the print control strips, the paper white, and the register marks fully auto-matically – and starts ink control without intervention by the printer. The color deviation ΔE, which is important in packaging printing in particular, is continuously displayed and adjusted on the fly, without pulling the sheets.

When exactly the required coloring is attained, the good-sheet counter starts automatically and the machine begins production. In addition, a tab can be inserted into the paper pile. Prinect Inpress Control 2 in combination with other automation components lays the foundation for Push to Stop, a feature for fully automated job changes without any interruption, from the last to the first good sheet and the start of production. In this way you shorten your setup times in the long term and achieve unbeatable production speeds.

Prinect Inpress Control 2:• Complete package for color and register control• Operation and display via the Prinect Press Center XL 2

touchscreen• Additional color deviation display on the Wallscreen XL• Space-saving micro print control strips can be used with-

out restriction across all formats• Netprofiler for colorimetric calibration

Highlights:• Fully automatic setup• Quality Assist: automatic run start on reaching the good

sheet• Register control as standard• Unique ΔE display during production without pulling

sheets, for maximum quality runs

› You can find more information on Prinect Inpress Control 2 here: heidelberg.com/en/inpresscontrol2

Our innovations for your success.Discover the opportunities offered by industrial printing production of tomorrow. Push to Stop enables you to change orders fully automated for the first time in the history of offset printing – from the last to the first good sheet, right up until production starts.

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Integrated color management. Color workflow with Prinect.

With Prinect, Heidelberg is the only manufacturer to offer a complete workflow to ensure constant print quality. What is special about Prinect is that the measured color values are reported back directly to prepress, evaluated there, and logged. They are also used to adapt the tone values during plate imaging and adaptation of ICC profiles. The result is optimal proofs and printing plates at all times – as well as the shortest setup times at the press.

Prinect Color ToolboxThe software package consists of three modules:• The Quality Monitor evaluates density, dot gain, CIEL*a*b*,

ΔE and checks the color standard against printing stan-dards such as ISO 12647-2 and G7.

• The Profile Tool provides ICC color profiles. It makes it easier to print heavy print forms e.g. using a unique achromatic function (GCR), especially on perfecting presses, and saves ink. The Multicolor option enables 85 percent of all Pantone colors to be replaced with a maximum of seven standard colors. This makes short runs in pack-aging printing economical again, since you are printing, rather than changing inks.

• The Calibration Tool ensures the correct dot size on the printing plate. Linearization of platesetter and plate and adaptation to the characteristic curve (process calibration) are performed separately here. If e.g. the plate material changes, only one parameter needs to be adjusted.

Prinect Dipco ElementsPrint control strips in each ink zone should, if possible, include all the colors in a print job in order for ink control to work reliably. Micro print control strips ensure this with a measurement patch size of just 3.25 × 4.00 mm (0.128 × 0.157 in). They save space on the printed sheet, but still conform to the ISO standards for reliable tone value measurement. The micro print control strips can be used without restriction across all formats.

Prinect Pressroom ManagerThe Prinect Pressroom Manager® provides CIP4-PPF data for the pressroom. This data is used to calculate where the ink zone motors need to be positioned for the respective print image, and these positions are then transferred to the press.

Prinect Image Control determines the position of the print control elements and the solid-tone areas from the CIP4-PPF data and automatically incorporates them into the ink con-trol process.

Prinect Press Center XL 2, Prinect Press Center 2Preinking and ink presetting parameters can be called up and saved on the machine control station. Together with the CIP4-PPF data, they ensure that the right amount of ink always reaches the paper.

Color Assistant ProColor Assistant Pro adapts the ink presetting for fast inking- up and monitors the ink fountain liner for constant ink flow and to avoid wear-through.

Color InterfaceWith Color Interface, Prinect Image Control 3 automati-cally detects all print control elements such as Mini Spots® on the printed sheet and supplies information about den-sity, dot gain, CIEL*a*b*, and ΔE to prepress, where it is used for ongoing process control and adaptation.

Print Color Management is a comprehensive service pack-age that will help you to achieve perfect color matching while at the same time shortening makeready times. It involves prepress and printing specialists optimizing your entire workflow so that you can ink-up quickly and produce the color proof reliably.

Print Color Management always starts with a comprehen-sive consultation. Then we look at the entire color work-flow from preinking at the press, through the correct dot size on the printing plate, to calibration of the proofer.

Rely on the experts from Heidelberg – no one knows your equipment better. We will also help you to standardize your print production to ISO 12647-2, and will confirm your successful standardization with an appropriate certificate. This will strengthen your position in the market, since printing to ISO is a frequent prerequisite these days for awarding print jobs.

› You can find more about Print Color Management here: heidelberg.com/en/printcolormanagement

Only Heidelberg has the specialists for the entire color workflow. Use this unique advantage in knowledge to get the most from your equipment, job after job.

Service from the color professionals. Print Color Management.

Greater color reliability thanks to a perfectly coordinated process – from prepress through to printing.

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PCM, presetting, Prinect Tracking with Prinect color measurement system during setup

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Customer satisfaction increases, complaints are avoided.

You can find more about the economy and efficiency benefits of the color measurement systems including operating data, sample calculations, and application testimonials here: › heidelberg.com/colormeasurement/efficiency

Makeready times

Integrated in the Prinect workflow, Prinect Axis Control shortens the setup time. The measuring head is moved fully automatically, without intervention by the operator, into the correct measurement position. No manual setup is required.

Quality

Prinect Inspection Control 2 checks each printed sheet at full production speed. Mistakes are identified and reported immediately. Your runs consist of

3 minutes.

Per measurement, Prinect Axis Control therefore saves up to

less makeready time thanks to the perfect coordination of all the components in the Prinect color workflow – from prepress through to the color measurement system.

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The right system for every application. How the measurement systems measure up.

Reliable, flawless printed sheets. Prinect Inspection Control 2.

Particularly in packaging and label printing, guaranteeing the quality of a printed product is not just a matter of cor-rect inking. Printing errors need to be identified at an early stage in order to ensure there are no complaints.

Prinect Inspection Control 2 delivers top performance when it comes to sheet inspection. Two high-resolution color cameras in the coating unit of the press fully check each sheet for material defects, hickeys, ink splashes, scumming and so on to prevent follow-up costs. The blower air-assisted optimized sheet guidance permits a comprehensive inspec-tion right up to the trailing sheet edge.

The new Operating Assistant, in conjunction with the Prinect workflow, enables a rapid, straightforward setup process on the Wallscreen XL. Hardly any of the settings are manual.

Prinect Inspection Control 2:• Two high-resolution color cameras for precision

inspection • Maintenance-free LED lighting• Blower air-assisted sheet guidance for a high inspection

standard right to the trailing sheet edge• Comprehensive inspection reports• InsertStar® tape inserter for tabbing defective sheets

Highlights:• Automatic loading of job data in conjunction with

Operating Assistant for shorter setup times• Automated transfer of inspection areas and test toler-

ances from prepress to the Prinect workflow• Printed sheet automatically checked against PDF files

from Prinect prepress

› You can find more information on Prinect Inspection Control 2 here: heidelberg.com/en/inspectioncontrol2

The Prinect color measurement systems are ideally tailored to the different requirements in the pressroom. Newcomers will be pleasantly surprised with how quickly they learn to use Prinect Easy Control. Whereas manual measuring devices previously had to take measurements in individual zones, it now takes just a few seconds to measure the entire print control strip and set all ink zones simultaneously. This saves time during setup and results in greater print run uniformity.

The same applies to Prinect Axis Control. The high level of automation helps the printer to shorten setup times. Vacuum suction ensures optimum flatness, even with thin paper and thick cardboard.

Prinect Image Control 3 delivers uncompromisingly uni-form quality if you want to compare individual copies or print a job on several different presses. The possibility of dispensing with the print control strip by placing mea-suring elements between packaging flaps is another special feature that delivers invaluable benefits, especially in pack-aging printing.

Prinect Inpress Control 2 is the ideal solution for standard-ized processes and numerous job changes. The setup speed is the same as the production speed, and register and color control processes are completed automatically. The use of spectral measuring technology enables the press to be set up for new paper or spot inks without stopping it. Prinect Inpress Control 2 is also the best solution when long runs need to comply with very narrow tolerances. After all, every single print sheet is measured.

Prinect Inspection Control 2 spots everything from hickeys, smudging, and scumming to blanket defects, thereby ensuring that only error-free copies reach the customer. This level of quality is required for high-quality print products.

The Prinect color measurement systems offer the right solution for every application. The different systems have different strengths, depending on the task and level of automation.

The Prinect quality measurement systems – which system for which application?

PrinectEasy Control

Prinect Axis Control

PrinectImage Control 3

Prinect Inpress Control 2

Prinect Inspection Control 2

Commercial printing

Industrial commercial printing

Packaging printing

Label printing