It’s important to ensure design intent is realized each time and everywhere a product appears. But with so many variables to impact print quality, how can brands utilize suppliers around the world and still achieve consistent color? Our X-Rite Pantone Packaging Color Experts have designed a series of consulting services and workshops to help you get the most from your print, packaging, plastic or textile value chain.
Offered both online and onsite, these interactive sessions introduce the tools you need and teach you how to use them. Here’s a list of our most popular consulting services and workshops.
Consulting Service: Color Achievability Report
This consulting service is ideal for designers, agencies, brands, and printer converters in print, packaging, plastic, and textile supply chains with little or no knowledge about how to implement a digital workflow. After consulting with you about your color goals, our Color Experts will measure your color samples using X-Rite’s comprehensive suite of color-measurement devices. A Color Scientist will then analyze your digital samples and provide an actionable report.
The final report will contain:
- A comparison of color differences
- Colorimetric information, including CIELAB, sRGB, and the closest Pantone Color
- Color feasibility in mixed production and materials
- Colors uploaded to PantoneLIVE Private Cloud (when requested), CxF or spreadsheet of measured data
Consulting Service: How to Create a Color Standard & Specification
This service is ideal for designers, agencies, brands, and printer converters in print, packaging, plastic, and textile supply chains with some knowledge of color industry standards and measurement technologies. A Color Expert will offer guidance to set achievable color standards and color specifications for a variety of materials and production methods.
This service will cover:
- How to effectively incorporate digital and physical reference color standards into your design workflow
- Key digital workflow concepts, including:
- The characteristics of a good color standard
- Industry standards that matter
- How to achieve consistent color across the supply chain
- The implications and financial impact of selecting an incorrect color standard
- How to apply concepts of the Color Technology Maturity Model
Consulting Service: Print Quality Program Startup
This service is for brand design, print quality, and procurement teams to kickstart a print quality program with their suppliers. In consultation with the brand, our Color and Print Quality Experts will bring your print quality program into the digital color ecosystem using X-Rite's global and regional best practices by implementing ColorCert Scorecard Server. Brands will benefit by reducing onsite press approvals and post-production evaluation of printed samples. Printers will benefit by reporting to a digital scorecard and leveraging many of the quality tools and best practices they already have in use. This program brings together quality reporting and enables the digital solutions to improve visibility to production and overall quality results.
Deliverables include:
- Updated Print Quality Requirements following industry standards and best practices
- ColorCert implementation, configuration, and training for the brand
- Digital templates to launch the program
- SOPs and Quick Reference Guides for internal users and print suppliers
- Project Management services to roll out program to suppliers
Workshop: Digital & Physical Color Fundamentals for Designers
Whether you’re trying to keep things going from your home office or looking for ways to improve color communication with your partners, this seminar will help you get the most from your color program. This half-day workshop is ideal for designers and agency studios and can be offered online or onsite for your entire team.
You will learn:
- The history of color and systems that help describe color.
- The nature and role of light.
- How to choose the best instruments for your color needs.
- How to recognize and overcome appearance characteristics that change the perception of color
- How to communicate color differences objectively
- How to apply concepts of the Color Technology Maturity Model
- An introduction to industry standards and their applications in different manufacturing processes
Consultation: ROI Analysis
Wondering whether a Print Quality Program is worth the investment? Our Brand Color Experts have helped the world's leading brands establish successful programs, and we can help you too. Learn more with a Free ROI Analysis for your brand.
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