Good morning DigitalG,
Calibrating on the iGen can be quite time consuming depending on how tight your color controls are. The manual process entails scanning in 26-30 different strips one at a time through the DTP41. Xerox has built in a color check tool that allows the operator to scan two strips to test for when calibration is required...this is a pass/fail process known as color check but does not provide any true fact based Delta E data regarding the true state of the engine.
ACQS is a tool for automating this calibration process but has limitation as X33 stated....and again still requires color skill and time for subjective color tweaking.
As a former Xerox iGen analyst, I would ask that you consider several questions when evaluating what is the best color control system to implement:
1. Are you throwing away paper and time trying to match color between offset and digital? Or matching more than one digital device to another digital device in your facility? ACQS is specific to the iGen and calibrating...it does not allow you to create a common color workflow for all of your technology.
2. Do you require color consistency and matching run to run, day to day, and week to week? ACQS still requires skill and time to achieve this.....
3. Would you have more confidence in printing repeat jobs if you could actually measure and see the Delta E information on the day of the first run be it press or digital and then be able to see that same information and provide it to your customer in a report the next month when you have to run additional sets to show that you are actually matching?
4. Most importantly would you like to address all of the above mentioned areas of opportunity that can be so challenging when dealing with color printing with an automatic, seamless, and easy to use tool that requires zero skill to produce accurate color?
In my iGen accounts, we found that the only way to really ensure that our customers were able to meet these goals was to implement ORIS Press Matcher Pro. Many traditional offset end users are already using the core technology this platform is built from in prepress for inkjet proofing (ORIS Color Tuner) and based on how tight and accurate the color was, requested to upgrade to ORIS Press Matcher Pro to match offset to digital and digital to digital, or simply to ensure that any job run today will be reproduced next week and look the same.
Please let me know if you want to hear and learn more about this solution, I'd love to share with you more about my experiences and also provide you with existing users who are willing to talk to you about their success with ORIS Press Matcher Pro.
