CLOSED-LOOP COLOR CONTROL — SMALL CHALLENGES, BIG REWARDS

The upshot: press operators can now take a proactive instead of a reactive approach and make improvements during the press run, says Greg Hain, pressroom manager for Banta. “Before, if we didn’t match a proof, an operator might say, ‘that’s as close as I can get it,’ because he may not have taken the time—especially on short runs of about 20,000—to perform a lot of hand-held readings,” Hain remarks.