How the camera sees colour drift on food flexible packaging

To see colour drift on food flexible packaging, the camera can only flag that it changed. It cannot stand in for the spectrophotometer number that lets the job go. If you cannot see it, change the light or the resolution first. Do not loosen the threshold first.

Colour drift on food flexible packaging

To see colour drift on food flexible packaging, the camera can only flag that it changed. It cannot stand in for the spectrophotometer number that lets the job go. If you cannot see it, change the light or the resolution first. Do not loosen the threshold first.

Colour drift on food flexible packaging

Fix the optics first

The colour in the same place slowly leaves the signed sheet as the metres go. If the picture cannot separate it, loosening the threshold only paints the ingredient list and the heat-seal area red. The camera can only flag that it changed. It cannot stand in for the spectrophotometer number that lets the job go.

Optics

Need Enough Not enough
The camera can only flag that it changed. It cannot stand in for the spectrophotometer number that lets the job go. The colour in the same place slowly leaves the signed sheet as the metres go. Only a blurred circle left
About 3 pixels across It stays It comes and goes, and you still write that it can be caught
the ingredient list and the heat-seal area in the field of view The critical place is seen Only the decorative edge is lit

Try it on a sample

  1. Confirm the picture can separate it: The colour in the same place slowly leaves the signed sheet as the metres go.
  2. Count about how many pixels it covers.
  3. If you cannot see it, change the light or the focus. Do not change the threshold.

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