PapEye Mottling – Tapio Measurement Technologies

Print Quality Analytics with PapEye Mottling for Windows

PapEye Mottling for Windows is a user-friendly software designed to help paper and board professionals assess print mottling and graininess according to the ISO/IEC 24790 standard. Using a standard scanner, you can quickly analyze samples and gain insights into your print quality.

The application is based on computational image analysis of scanned samples. The software enables an objective evaluation of mottling and similar marbling effects in print and provides a single mottling value describing the perceived visual evenness of the printed sample.

Example of bad quality marbled print.

Mottling score 1.79

Example of good print quality.

Mottling score 0.40

The human eye recognises mottling effects with different sensitivities, depending on the size of the defect. With flaw sizes of lower wavelengths, the human eye is relatively insensitive, because it can hardly detect such fine variations. However, the human eye is very sensitive to patch sizes within a certain visible range. PapEye Mottling for Windows and the ISO/IEC 24790 standard provide results that correspond well with human perceived print quality.

Key Features of PapEye Mottling for Windows

Objective evaluation of mottling and similar variation effects in print and base paper
Computation of a mottling value, which represents how much variation disturbing to the human eye there is in the sample
View, copy and export results (Excel or csv format)
Batch processing for analysis and export of of entire folders with similar samples
Algorithm according to the ISO/IEC 24790 standard

The software is a standalone executable and licenses are sold as permanent licenses for a single PC. List of recommended scanners is available from Tapio Measurement Technologies.