Testing at Clemson
Equipment
Plate Making
Capabilities
Clemson offers both technology and expertise to facilitate the Industry’s research and testing needs. Product testing can be conducted for both printers and suppliers. Full service capabilities are offered including prepress and platemaking services as well as actual on-press testing. Test design and analysis of test results can also be provided.
Often, suppliers will evaluate a development product in Clemson’s facilities prior to releasing it to market in order to quantify its performance characteristics. By utilizing Clemson’s facilities to evaluate various products and select the best for their application, printers and converters avoid robbing valuable press time from their production schedule. Testing at Clemson also ensures that the evaluation is conducted under controlled conditions which are repeatable, without bias and all results are confidential.
Equipment manufacturers also employ Clemson’s facilities for product development. To this end, manufacturers have installed prototypes in order to run tests to predict actual field experience. Because of the nature of the work done in Clemson’s facilities (many, many short runs), Clemson is particularly attractive to equipment manufacturers interested in evaluating the performance of their product over time, as related to set-up and clean-up functions. Of course, tests can be designed to evaluate the performance of a product over a long run as well.