Contact person
Hans Christiansson
Application engineer
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Print through software
Print-through is an unwanted effect when you see some of the ink from the opposite side of a paper in a magazine. It is a combination of the show-through (=effect from opacity) and the strike-through (=effect from ink penetration), both properties are closely related to the paper structure
Purpose
Print-through is an often-encountered print quality problem mainly caused by ink penetration and insufficient opacity of the paper.
Non uniformity in substrate structure relates closely to print-through. Therefore, spatial variations of print-through provide a probe to the substrate’s structure.The Print through software can be used to:
- Check if the print through is acceptable and stable over time
- Benchmark to competitors
- Monitor how new settings in the productions affect the print through
- Check if new products are better or not
Method
This tool provides an assessment of the print quality and it's relationship with paper’s structure in an effective, reliable, fast and intuitive way, using an affordable standard flatbed scanner with these parts:
- Quantitative characteristics of print-through over a big area, both in average and in detail
- Quantitative evaluations of print-through and its components: show-through, strike-through, the relationships between the print-through phenomenon and the underlying physical properties and quantities
- Histograms of reflectance, light absorption, light scattering, and depth of ink penetration can be obtained.
- The calculated numbers are saved as ASCII-files for import to Excel or another spread sheet software.
Deliveries
License of the software package Print Through and a reflectance calibration set, a black NCS-sheet.
Manuals describing installation, scanning and evaluation (in English).
