What we learn from the press floor, what we build into DeltaOne, and what's moving in the color management world.
With Instrument Matching, the measurement reference you trust with your handheld devices carries into inline color control — Techkon, X-Rite, or another compatible instrument. The same quality reference, the same library.
In September, Consolidated Label described how it has added six Baldwin Guardian PQV inspection systems to its slitter-rewinders since early 2024, with a seventh going onto a 22-inch Nilpeter press.
A Dutch label printer since 1891 moved from offline color measurement to inline DeltaOne. Press stops fell by half, and 100-meter restarts disappeared.
Short version: we are sitting this edition out, and we will see you at the European edition, LOUPE Europe 2027 in Barcelona, October 5 to 8.
Extended Color Gamut printing has one of the best pitches in the industry: replace the spot-ink carousel with a fixed set — CMYK plus orange, green and violet — and build most brand colors from combinations that never leave the press.
Five currents are converging on Chicago this September: AI that needs data, waste that regulators now count, ink chemistry in motion, a workforce in transition, and brand owners asking for proof.
Trade show booths are designed to make every system look equivalent.
LOUPE Americas 2026 (Chicago, September 15 to 17) lists 45 sessions and 65 speakers across two tracks: the paid Insights & Education program in Rooms 12/13 and 14, and the free Spotlight Stage on the show floor.
LOUPE Americas opens on September 15, 2026 at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Chicago, with more than 400 exhibitors and three days of live press demonstrations.
Real-time color measurement, automatic corrections, and full integration with prepress tools: a streamlined, end-to-end production workflow.
Why low ΔE values matter for print quality and brand colors, across materials, batches, and production runs.
MeasureColor's print-process software meets X-Rite's color-measurement expertise: faster setups, tighter tolerances.
Why spectrophotometers — which measure light reflectance across the spectrum — are essential for translating perceived color into actionable numbers.
The unveiling of DeltaOne and DeltaWeb inline spectral scanners: the first time the world saw what was coming next.
From illuminant to ΔE: a deep dive into the 36-band pipeline behind every spectral measurement.
