At FESPA Global Printing in Munich, Barbieri will introduce a worldwide unique solution for color measurements in digital textile printing. This solution is based on the well-known Spectro LFP qb and got several very important improvements and additional accessories. Thanks to them, it is finally possible to measure fully automatically and with highest precision and repeatability any kind of textiles and fabrics.

It grants easy and secure fixing of the textile, measures fully automatically with highest precision and repeatability also distorted charts and the optics remains clean for many measurements. To ensure this, new textile holders have been created, the optics is equipped with an air blowing system which prevents the textile fibers to contaminate the optics, the Sensing Unit (camera) in combination with special software algorithms detects the center of each patch of the chart to be measured and distorted charts will therefore be measured fully automatically.

The combination of up to 8 mm large measuring aperture and the 45°/0° geometry as well as fully automatic measurements ensure highest accuracy and repeatability. A daily task in digital textile printing is also reproducing spot colors. For this application the Spectral Unit (measurement head) can be detached from the automatic table for manual spot measurements. The fact that the same device is used for spot measurements and for automatic printer setup grants consistency over the whole workflow. And finally, fluorescent inks in textile printing are rampant, and Spectro LFP qb Textile Edition can measure them!