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Create Accurate Profiles on a Range of Textile Materials for Digital Printing

The advent of digital textile printing is disrupting the way fabric and apparel producers work. Although digital print technologies utilize more durable inks and offer higher reliability, longer print life, and overall cost savings and efficiency, these changes also mean print shops must adjust the way they operate to remain competitive.

First, the texture and stability of fabrics poses a challenge. Measuring coarse weaves with a standard print spectrophotometer can cause inconsistent results, so digital printers need to be more conscientious about color control to ensure the final color is accurate. Since materials are expensive, digital textile printers require accurate color management tools to profile up front and more frequent tolerance checks to verify color matches to avoid waste.

Plus, there are many new digital printing systems on the market today, from desktop printers that can print directly onto t-shirts and other fabrics to digital wide format and industrial printers for dye sublimation, direct to fabric, and roll to roll fabric. Some fabric can be produced short run on industrial sized machines, which is a big change in the printed fabric market. While printing small quantities on-demand reduces the need for large warehouses, print shops need to characterize both the device and the material together to do this successfully.

Using X-Rite profiling technology, digital printers can create more accurate custom color profiles on a broad range of textile materials, including organic, synthetic, weaves, and sublimation sheets, and check the accuracy of color throughout production for less wasted time and materials.

Customizable solutions from X-Rite Pantone provide digital textile designers and printers the ability to:

• Design across a range of materials with confidence in color reproducibility and consistency and obtain on-screen color accuracy for soft-proofing.
• Maintain consistent color between printers and reduce color variability across different materials and between jobs.
• Profile a range of textile materials, including those with optical brighteners.
• Check print quality using ISO 12647-7 compliant media wedges and trend display performance over time.
• Minimize back and forth trial and error to save time and materials for a faster, more accurate production workflow.

X-Rite Pantone’s comprehensive product solutions address challenges to achieve accurate and consistent color each and every time for digital textile technology industries.