Simplified Scoring and Communication for Print Suppliers and Print Buyers

The metrics and parameters used by print suppliers to ensure quality and process control are often mysterious and impenetrable to the uninitiated. Printers wishing to ensure a buyer the quality of a job is acceptable are faced with explaining concepts such as tone value increase or DE. There is a way to simplify this communication and combine most print quality metrics into an easy-to-understand single number. This paper will lay out the case for how this can be done.