Kodak NexPress Digital Production Color Presses

NEXPRESS DigitalProduction Color Presses

QUALIFIED SUBSTRATE

Rochester Institute of Technology

Substrate Qualification Performance Report

Qualification Information Datequalificationstarted Datequalificationcompleted Manufacturer SubstrateName RITSubstrateID Grammage(BasisWeight) SubstrateType Size

GrainDirection

Substrate Conditions and Measurements: Performed at RITSample 1 Sample 2 Sample 3 Sample 4 Sample 5 Uniformity

AverageGloss Uniformity (G60)

Maximum Minimum Average

Gloss (G60)

Brightness (Top)

CIELAB (C/2degree ISO 2469 Geometry)

Smoothness Top

Qualification Process Machine Information EngineNumber: #1009-ZC SoftwareVersion: 11.0.0

Qualification Runs: Evaluations RITconductsanumberof evaluations,todeterminetheoptimumenginedependentsettings,fortheparticularsubstrate. Selectioncriteriaforthedifferentsettingsarebasedon:DryInkadhesion,colordensity,overallimagequality,sufficient discharging,andnoartifactssuchasexcessivecurlorblistering.

The Process of Substrate Qualification contains the following steps nDeterminationof FuserSetPoints nICCProfileGenerationorAssignment nColorVerification nScriptFileCreation Notethatitisimportantthatthepaperrunssmoothlythroughallof theevaluationruns.ForCustomICCprofiles,colorprofiles forthreescreeningsystems(classic,optimum,andline)withtwocolorseparations(UCRandGCR)arecreated.ForUniversal

ICCprofileassignmentthesameprofileisassignedtoallof thescreeningsystems.

2 Substrate Qualification

Substrate Qualification Settings Substrate Dependent Engine Settings ScriptFileName SubstrateCategory SubstrateType SubstrateColor Thickness CreepValue Weight SubstrateDefaultSizes FuserSurfaceTemperature NipWidth BlowerSpeed DischargeLevelSide1 DischargeLevelSide2 EnergyFlow CleaningPaperStreamLength ICCProfiles

Color Gamut Chart

Substrate Qualification 3

DFE 2.0 DFE 3.0 and Higher

Transfer Current K

Transfer Current Y

Transfer Current M

Transfer Current C

Gamut Chart Not AvailableUniversal Profile Assigned.

Notes

Concerns

Release Date

RIToffersthissubstratequalificationconsistentwithguidelinesagreedtowithKodak.

Rochester Institute of Technology

Printing Applications Laboratory

RochesterInstituteof Technologyplaysauniquerolefortheprintingandpublishingindustriesbyeducatingtheirfuture

employees,trainingtheircurrentemployeesandsupportingtheirappliedresearchactivities.

ThePrintingApplicationsLaboratorysupportsacademicprogrammingatRIT,providingstudentswithtechnicalexpertise,

guidance,andaccesstoaunique,hands-onlearningenvironment.

LeveragingRITíscomprehensivecollectionof full-scalecontemporaryprintingequipment,fromconventionalprocessestostate-

of-the-artdigitalprintingtechnology,thePrintingApplicationsLaboratoryprovidesindustrywithpractical,measurable

informationtocontrolandimprovethequalityof theirproducts.

Fornearly50years,PALhasprovidedstate-of-the-industryprintingplatformsandvalueaddedservicestoorganizationsengaged

inprintingmaterialsevaluationanddevelopment.

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