GrafcoAST: Driving Innovation and Development of Image Elaboration
28 April 2025: The Company has been Developing Software that Provides Highest Quality in Screen Printing and Digital Printing since 2007. GrafcoAST has been developing software that grant our customers highest quality in screen printing and digital printing.
– XerioRIP
– XerioSEP
– Color Tag
– Color Reader
– XerioRIP 4
Professional RIP for screen printing, that can drive the inkjet printers at highest quality for the production of films and can also make a highest quality output for CTS (computer to screen) of UV laser engraving of the screens, allowing excellent screening quality and details that will make your screen printed item unique.
XerioSEP 3
At GrafcoAST we have also been perfected various professional software solutions for the color separation and for its management for textile screen printing and digital printing.
This powerful stand-alone software can separate an image up to 12 colors, allowing a final quality that has not yet been reached with other solutions. The example here was obtained by combining the color separation of XerioSEP (6 colors) with halftones of XerioRIP.
Color Tag
Software that helps quickly generate with highest precision a Pantone color or any other color reference system without resorting to lengthy profiling. This software is extremely useful in the textile pigment digital print and sublimation ink digital print.
Color Reader
This is the main component of the Grafco Color System. This tool offers two functions using the GrafcoAST software:
1) Ink Color Management
Reads the color of a surface, It compares it to another color (Color Quality Control). It then presents a choice of the nearest colors to the one that has been read, among those available in the server Grafco. It suggests an indicative formula to make the color that has been read using Grafco inks.
2) UV Lamp Check
It reads a special adhesive paper such as post-it. This paper is put in a UV oven, sticking it to surface to be tested (flat or object). Once out of the UV oven, the paper is read again by instrument and you get value in Mjoule of the UV energy received by the lamp when in oven.
Significance
Grafco AST’s XerioRIP are nowadays absolutely necessary for the screen printing prepress and for the graphic teams that reproduce images using industrial printing technologies like Flexography. The application of these software is not restricted to the textile world though. The Company Grafco, works side by side with Grafco AST, is a chemical company that developed during last 35 years, specialty UV, water based and solvent based screen printing inks. These specialty inks, studied specifically for high definition printing, can be used with high meshes with no printing problem to obtain the high definition halftone prints generated by the Grafco AST’s software.
Revolution
The solutions obtained by the GrafcoAST’s software together with the Grafco’s high definition inks are a revolution in terms of quality standard for the screen printing industry, increasing at the same time the solutions offered by the screen printing technology. Innovations introduced by GrafcoAST enable significant simplification of the workflow during prepress and upon the print of photograph-like images using the screen printing technology. The quality that can be reached through the HD Screen printing helps any innovative and advanced screen printing company to compete on global market, even from medium to little runs with digital prints, not only in advertising world, display and POP, but also in industrial or textile field.
Reproduction
The HD screen printing assure for instance, the best reproduction in printing on any surface not only of photograph-like images but even the reproduction with the screen printing of wood, marble, texture and complex surfaces. The cost of the screen printing technology calculated for every single prints is nowadays much lower than the digital one even for the medium and long runs. Above all it ensures to any application the well known reliability, outdoor fastness and adhesion of the screen printing inks technology that have been improved in the last 30 years for the wide range of industrial materials employed by the industry.
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