The company has, following its appointed as the sole representative for Konica Minolta colour management products, launched the spectrodensitometer FD-7 for the Indian paper, ink, packaging and commercial printing industry.

The device is not only capable of measuring optical density and colour values of images but is also built with additional functionality of measuring paper tones and special colour values.
"This is a unique instrument which supports all densitometric functions from density to trapping, as well as CIE LAB values function," said Yogesh Wandrekar, marketing manager at Jay Instruments.

The FD-7 comes with an automatic wavelength compensation function, claimed an official from Jay Instruments. It also claimed that the device is world’s first M1 type Konica Minolta’s VFS technology, enables Lab measurements corresponding to ISO 13655 measurement condition M1 besides other features like illumination environment light, dot area ratio, dot gain measurements among others.

The device is offered with a printing colour management software. "FD-7 is an ideal device to check CMYK prints according to ISO standards," said Wandrekar.