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. In the meantime, if you are in Chicago on September 15 to 17 looking for inline color measurement, this article is the booth visit we would have given you.
What DeltaOne is
DeltaOne is a compact inline spectral scanner that mounts on a flexographic press and measures color on the running web. It uses multispectral imaging across 36 spectral bands, reads colorbars as small as 2 × 2 mm, and holds 0.1 ΔE repeatability at speeds up to 500 m/min. The scanner head is motorized: it traverses the web and positions itself wherever the job puts its colorbar — machine side, operator side, or both. A job can carry a colorbar on each edge, and DeltaOne measures the two in alternation, tagging every reading with the side it came from. It was shown at LabelExpo Europe 2025 in Barcelona on the X-Rite and Esko stands, and it connects to ChromaChecker and MeasureColor for color QA and process control.
What the demonstration would have looked like
At a trade show, a DeltaOne demo runs on a demo roll: a pre-printed job unwinding under the scanner at production speed, with a process colorbar and two or three spot colors. Here is the sequence, and what to watch for at each step.
Step 1: the reference. Before the press runs, the job's color targets are loaded from the brand owner's standard (typically Lab values under M1 conditions) into the color software. Nothing is measured yet; this is the contract the press has to meet.
Step 2: makeready. The web comes up to speed. DeltaOne starts reading the colorbar on every revolution. On the operator screen, each ink shows its current ΔE from target and a direction: more or less. In our experience, this is where the value is most visible. The operator does not stop the press to pull a sheet, walk to the handheld, read, walk back, adjust, and repeat. They adjust while the web is moving, watching ΔE converge.
Step 3: production. Once every ink is within tolerance, the system keeps measuring. If a color starts to move, it shows up as a trend on the screen before it becomes a rejected roll, and the measurement log runs for the whole job.
Step 4: the report. At the end of the job, the color software holds a per-job, per-ink conformance record. This is what a brand owner asks for, and what most converters cannot produce today without manual sampling.
One screen, both edges of the web
The operator screen shows every ink at a glance — ΔE against target, solid density, dot gain — with the trend, the direction to correct, and the detail one tap deeper. And because each measurement carries the position of the colorbar it was read from, the screen does not just say that an ink is drifting; it says where. A magenta that walks on the operator-side colorbar while holding steady on the machine side is not an ink problem — it is a local one: impression, doctor blade, anilox. That diagnosis normally costs a press stop and a walk along the machine. Here it is on the screen, while the web runs.
What customers measure, not what we claim
Trade show claims are cheap. Field numbers are not. Eshuis BV, a label converter in the Netherlands, installed DeltaOne and cut press stops by half, avoiding 100-meter restarts on each intervention. The full case study, with the makeready playbook they rewrote as a result, is on our Insights page.
How to see DeltaOne without the flight to Chicago
Three options, in order of effort.
First, read the DeltaOne product page and download the datasheet. It answers the specification questions a booth visit would.
Second, request a demonstration. We run live demos on partner presses and remote sessions where you watch a running press through the operator screen.
Third, if you are already at LOUPE Americas, use the checklist from our vendor questions article at any color or inspection booth, and compare the answers you get with the DeltaOne datasheet when you are back at your desk.
After the show
We will publish a recap of what changed in the color control conversation at LOUPE Americas 2026 in the week after the show. If there is a session or a vendor you want our read on, tell us through the contact page. And if Chicago is not on your route this year either: see you at LOUPE Europe 2027 in Barcelona.
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