1. Commercialization Of A Goniophotometer
RIT Senior Design
Commercialization Of A Goniophotometer
Project Manager: Michael L. Kolis

2. Imaging In The World Advertisements Pamphlets
Daily Corporate Printing & Copying
Photography
Artwork
Labeling
Instructions Mounted To Devices

3. Marketing
"...an organizational function and a set of processes for creating, communicating, and delivering valuable information to customers and for managing customer relationships in ways that benefit the organization and its stakeholders."

4. Printing is BIG Business
In 2006 there are approximately 30,700 printing companies in the United States, accounting for $112 billion, according to the 2006 U.S. Industry & Market Outlook by Barnes Reports. Print jobs that move through the Internet made up 12.5% of the total U.S. Printing market last year, according to research firm InfoTrend/CAP Ventures.

5. Clearly, Printing Is VITAL…
But how does that matter to RIT Senior design???

6. What Can Image Quality Do?
Captivating The Customer Base
Getting Your Point Across
Successful Implementation/Utilization of Products
Natural Human Nature To Remember Influential Images

7. But What is Image Quality???

8. Gloss = Image Quality

9. Measuring Gloss In Industry
Gloss is measured in all industries where color and appearance are critical
Paint
Plastics
Ceramics
Paper Textiles
Coating Industries
All measure gloss each and every day.

10. Why Gloss?
A printer in the commercial printing or packaging market must read gloss because it has a profound impact on the appearance of a printed product.
Your colors can be perfect
Ink densities can be exact
The stock and ink can be the same
However, if the gloss level is inconsistent the appearance will be drastically effected.

11. Why Goniophotometry?
An initial look has been taken at the correlation between the appearance of gloss and gloss measurement for samples of colors other than black. Early results indicate that there are factors in the u-goniophotometer feature vector that correlate better with perception than measurements from a traditional glossmeter
Message: Glossmeters do not provide an adequate measure of perceived gloss

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13. How it works
● Manually load sample onto cylindrical roller
● Set camera polarizer to initial angular position
● Set light intensity on fiber optic illumination source
● Collimated (in one axis) linearly polarized white
light illuminates sample.
● Specific desired rays reflect from sample at a
20 angle relative to illumination light
● Portion of sample is imaged by
telecentric imaging system
● USB camera snaps first picture
(pol. parallel)
● Set camera polarizer to final angular
position and snap another picture
(pol. perpendicular) 1 3 2 4 5 6 7 8

14. So What Does This Project Do?
This project will focus on implementing the technology of goniophotometry into a GLOSS measuring system that is…..
Easy To Use
Better Than The Current Products In The Market
Able To Measure The Angular Distribution of a Product’s Gloss Characteristics

15. This Project Integrates…
An extremely wide variety of technical expertise ranging from physical product design & manufacturing to software design.
The pairing of various skill sets of engineering students to design a product that stems from various sectors of science & engineering.

16. This Project Will Give You Experience In…
Advanced Optics
Printing Industry Standards
Advanced Mathematics
Product Design/Development
Time Management
Working With a Wide Variety of People from Different Engineering Backgrounds

17. Software Design: Human/Computer Interaction
Graphical User Interface Design
Software/Hardware Integration
Optimizing Data Collection and Data Processing Algorithms
Linking Various Software Systems To Work In Sequence

18. Mechanical Design: Leadership through Team Management Product Design
Functional Analysis
Thermal Material Properties
Computer Aided Drafting/3D Modeling
Technological Integration
Advanced Device Manufacturing

19. Electrical Design: Circuit Design Data Acquisition (Labview)
Software/Hardware Interaction

20. System Design & Data Analysis:
Advanced Mathematics
Statistical Analysis
Algorithm Development
Data Collection
Experimental Design
Data Sorting/Mining Techniques

21. Intellectual Property Rights…

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