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Closed-loop control system - Achieving automated process control in offset printing

For commercial printers using older offset presses, it may be difficult to provide the same color results as commercial printers using newer presses with automatic color control. Adding a closed-loop solution provides affordable automation, allowing commercial print shops and folding carton converters to remain competitive in today's market. Print jobs are produced requiring manual spot checks and ink key adjustments. Many printers find it difficult to quickly achieve offset lithography color targets on sheet-fed presses.

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Brand color control - how to solve the color difference on different packaging substrates?

From brand color design to printing production, a variety of substrates and printing processes are involved. Even for the same brand color, achieving color consistency across different printing processes is difficult because different substrates and printing processes yield significantly different color results. This is even more challenging when considering different printing methods such as offset printing, flexographic printing, gravure printing, letterpress printing, screen printing, and digital printing, where consistent color reproduction is crucial.

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Color Management | Munsell Color System A vibrant and long-standing legacy

Whenever archaeologists unearth tiny artifacts, such as a shard of pottery, a few beads, or some bone fragments, they are able to weave a story of how people lived centuries before us. Most of these incredible stories are revealed through color, specifically through a color standard designed by a man named Albert H. Munsell.

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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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