The EFI ES-6000 colour chart reading spectrophotometer automates and streamlines the press profiling process in digital printing, driven by EFI Fiery software.

This means, the company said, “print professionals can quickly and easily update profiles and verify colour to ensure the best possible colour output from their digital presses”. Using the EFI ES-6000 on a printer’s local access network allows for colour management of multiple print engines in a single location.

EFI said the new product can read thousands of colour patches in minutes and accommodates M0, M1 and M2 measurement illumination conditions.

EFI Fiery vice-president of marketing John Henze said: “Making sure that press profiles are up to date and digital presses are properly calibrated can be a challenge.

"The award winning Fiery Color Profiler Suite combined with the EFI ES-6000 scanning network spectrophotometer solves this issue, providing important colour management advantages for EFI Fiery users with multiple digital presses." 

Multiple users can use Fiery Color Profiler Suite to print colour patch pages that can be fed into the ES-6000 in any order for automated measurement.

The ES-6000 then automatically communicates results back to the correct user to enable efficient completion of the colour management or verification process.

It can read up to 2,500 patches on a single A3 sheet in 10 minutes, EFI said.

Meanwhile the company has released a new midmarket version of its Productivity Suite software, aimed at mid-size printing businesses.

The Midmarket Productivity Suite has EFI Pace software as the core MIS and features 17 certified workflows for production automation of commercial, digital and wide-format printing as well as fulfillment.