AATCC International Summit Oktober 4 - 6, 2026

Color is often treated as an approval step, but it’s true business value is revealed in the metrics it influences across the product lifecycle.

Visit X-Rite Pantone at the AATCC International Summit

To remain competitive and meet sustainability initiatives, apparel, footwear, and soft good brands must communicate color in a way that positions color teams as strategic connectors between design intent, raw material selection, sourcing decisions, merchandising expectations, supplier capability, quality control, and consumer experience.

To learn how X-Rite Pantone solutions can help, visit us at our tabletop and join us for our technical presentation:

Presenter: Ryan Stanley
Date: Monday, October 6^th
Time: 11:00 AM

• PantoneLIVE Private Library Manager: A digital library to digitalize, store, and share private and custom colors with the supply chain, extending the power of PantoneLIVE to custom, private, and brand colors.
• Textile Color Hub: An open cloud-based ecosystem to securely pass color data back and forth using a secure file format to communicate spectral data for brand colors along with embedded tolerances and illuminants requirements.

• Ci7800: A sphere benchtop spectrophotometer for brands to measure and convert physical swatches into digital brand color standards, and for suppliers to measure lab dips to compare against the specification.

• Color iQC: Quality control software to verify lab dips are within tolerance so suppliers can confidently submit the best sample for digital approval.
• NetProfiler: An X-Rite exclusive blend of software and calibrated color standards to validate and optimize a fleet of spectrophotometers, reduce variation between devices, and identify instruments in need of service.
• Judge LED: Equipped with seven customizable light sources to simulate a wide range of industry-standard lighting conditions, the Judge LED helps operators ensure color appears accurately under different lighting environments to reduce metamerism and misjudgments.

Learn more and register on AATCC’s website.