INTERVIEWS
Spectro LFP qb, a Cutting-edge Technology of Barbieri
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Mr. Viktor Lazzeri Business Development Manager Barbieri
h ere are a number of challenges in obtaining accurate colour measurement data in digital textile printing. However, automated colour measurement devices can help to overcome these challenges. The Barbieri Spectro LFP qb textile edition is able to accurately measure textiles in digital textile printing. In a webinar recently, Barbieri discussed how to enable an accurate and stable linearisation and calibration process in digital textile printing and how to ensure colour accuracy through verification with automated colour measurement. Mr. Viktor Lazzeri is the Business Development Manager for Barbieri Electronic. Barbieri Electronic builds spectrophotometers for colour measurement in professional digital printing and is the colour measurement market leader for large format, flatbed and industrial printing. Viktor’s focus is expanding Barbieri’s international business into new markets, applications, and industries. He started at Barbieri in 2011, initially working as Supply Chain Manager. Later he took the role of the VP of Product and Innovation and also managed the operations of Barbieri North America Inc.
Mr. Viktor Lazzeri spoke to the Textile Value lowed, from automated measurements, to variable Chain in an exclusive interview. measurement apertures to offering backlit measurements. Today the Spectro LFP qb textile ediExcerpts: tion is the cutting-edge technology when it comes Textile Value Chain (TVC): In today’s textile to measure textiles and other materials in digital world of changing fashions, colour accuracy printing. plays a vital role. Give us a brief history of TVC: Where are your major markets for the Barbieri Electronic since its inception. various products? Viktor Lazzeri (VL): Barbieri Electronic was founded in 1983 in Brixen, a town in Northern Italy VL: Measurement technology is a key piece of by Mr. Siegfried Barbieri. From its roots building technology in various markets. Our Barbieri measdensitometers, the company switched in 1997 to urement devices are used in digital textile printing, the digital printing market by building one of the signage, label and packaging, flatbed, fine art and first spectrophotometers for measuring colour in industrial printing (for example ceramics, glass digital printing. Since then, many innovations fol- and other applications)
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