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Brand Color Technology Sharing | Digital Virtual Sample "Black Technology" - PANTORA Material Acquisition Software

In recent years, many brands have begun to focus on digital samples to maintain efficient production, but they struggle to replicate the texture of color samples on prototypes. X-Rite PANTORA material acquisition software fills this gap. Using this desktop application, users can capture or import spectral samples and store, manage, view, edit, and render them as virtual materials. PANTORA can also digitally convert these virtual samples into a neutral appearance exchange format (AxF) for use in 3D rendering applications. Currently, our rendering partners support RGB format. After corresponding functional enhancements, PANTORA can also convert spectral format to RGB format.

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Color Management | Achieving Robust Print Process Control

For many print shops and print buyers, the ability to accurately match colors and proofs is critical. Outputting standard reference prints seems basic, but it's not that easy. Print shops and their clients frequently complain about the challenges of matching colors. While today's printing is closer to manufacturing, perfect color is still not guaranteed. In this article, we will explore why calibration is essential, what happens after calibration, printing conditions and their relationship to maintenance, and finally how to achieve a robust process control loop.

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6 Best Practices for Print Color Management

Uncontrolled color management often leads to poor print quality, inconsistent colors, and negative variations across different packaging substrates, resulting in low brand recognition, customer dissatisfaction, and subsequent additional challenges and costs. For brand owners' printers and packaging printers, ensuring consistent and stable color matching specified by the customer, while minimizing waste and maximizing productivity, requires a predictable color management process.

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Brand color management | Packaging design using achievable colors

Brands invest a lot of time and resources when choosing new colors to represent their products. If the color does not meet expectations after printing, it will lead to wasted runs, and everyone wants to know where the color went wrong.

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Print quality measurement and process control

Print quality measurement and process control can help you achieve accurate color in printing and packaging applications. Today, we will share the essential tools needed to design, formulate, and print predictable colors. We will also guide you through an ideal process to achieve color consistency in packaging substrates across multiple print runs.

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How to choose the correct eXact spectrophotometer?

The eXact spectrophotometer is a portable color measurement solution with an integrated calibration tile and intuitive touchscreen interface. Printers and packaging service providers can use this print density meter to control, manage, and communicate color anywhere in the print shop. As a scalable solution, the eXact spectrophotometer offers a variety of models and can be upgraded as needs change.

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XCMYK four-color extended gamut printing

XCMYK is a wide-gamut printing method with a significantly wider color gamut than conventional 4-color printing. Offset printing can achieve the Idealliance XCMYK_2017 Profile target by using inks with higher color density, higher quality paper, and optimized screening methods. Pre-press digital proofing devices can also simulate XCMYK by loading ICC profiles, provided that the printing system's color gamut is equal to or greater than XCMYK.

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