“We followed her suggestion and invested in a SpectroPad. It paid off immediately!“

Manuel Meyer, head of printing division at Picanova GmbH ensures color quality by means of a Barbieri SpectroPad.

Founded 2006 in Cologne (Germany), Picanova GmbH today is known as one of the leading online supplier of individual prints on canvas as well as photo finishing products. The raw materials such as canvas, frames are produced in-house, which ensures highest quality at reasonable costs. Of course, color quality has to be perfect too – the Barbieri SpectroPad ensures this.

Customers all around the world are delivered from production sites in Germany, USA, China and Latvia.

They expect consistent quality and therefore Picanova invests constantly in new workflows and equipment for quality control. Manuel Meyer, head of printing division at Picanova headquarter in Germany, continuously tries to improve production and according workflows in order to operate at full capacity at highest quality standards.
“Birgit Jemide of Inimap GmbH, distribution partner of Barbieri electronic, draw my attention to the SpectroPad.” Explains Manuel. “We followed her suggestion and invested in this equipment. It paid off immediately!“ What Manuel likes most, is the fact the operator can perform accurate process control directly on the printer. “Thanks to the built-in Wi-Fi connection as well as long-lasting battery the SpectroPad is portable, which is fundamental in a production area of around 2.000 sqm. Handling is blindingly easy which is important for a quality control tool as it can be used easily and quickly to check actual color output,” explains Manuel excited. “We at Picanova receive digital images from innumerable customers. There some variations during conversation from RGB into CMYK can happen easily, which customers do not accept. Moreover, we print not just on paper and foils, but also on various different, sometimes very expensive substrates such as acryl glass. There a continuous quality control is necessary in order to not to waste material, ink, time and money. At the end, deliver high quality products at a fair price ensures satisfied customers and continuous business, and Barbieri helps us on this."