Assim como vocês, a digitalização e a sustentabilidade estão em primeiro lugar. No entanto, a cor é muitas vezes negligenciada quando se trata de desenvolvimento de produtos têxteis. A digitalização da cadeia de fornecimento têxtil e a aplicação do gerenciamento de cores em cada etapa acabará valendo a pena com cores mais precisas, produção mais rápida e menos desperdício. Com mais de 60...

Nesta época do ano, a internet está cheia de contagens Top 10. É uma tradição que adotamos desde 1940, quando a Billboard publicou sua primeira tabela classificando as músicas gravadas mais vendidas. Desde então, outros entraram na onda para destacar as tendências mais populares do ano anterior.   Publicamos nossos blogs mais lidos desde 2016 e estamos felizes em ver que alguns tópicos educacionais, como percepção d...

A X-Rite Pantone está muito entusiasmada para expor na K 2022. Como para muitos de vocês, a digitalização e a sustentabilidade estão em primeiro lugar. Convidamos você a visitar nosso estande para ver como um ciclo de vida completo focado na cor pode ajudar você a: Atender às demandas de cores dos seus clientes; Garantir a consistência da cor com lotes variados de matéria-prima reciclada; Acelerar a aprovaç&at...

Quando os clientes estão recém começando com o gerenciamento de cores, eles geralmente perguntam: “Qual é a diferença entre um espectrômetro e um espectrofotômetro?”. Com uma diferença de ortografia tão pequena, é fácil cometer um rápido erro de digitação e obter a resposta errada para esta pergunta sobre cor. Então… qual é a diferença? Espectrômetros vs. ...

Para medir uma cor, um instrumento de medição de cor emite luz sobre uma amostra, captura a quantidade de luz transmitida ou refletida na faixa de comprimento de onda de 380 a 780 nm e quantifica esse valor na forma de uma medição espectral.   A medição de cor é necessária para especificar, quantificar, comunicar, formular e verificar a qualidade da cor em trabalhos onde ela é um elemento essencial.   Como as co...

Aprenda sobre luz, curvas de reflexão, agentes de brilho óptico e mais.     Iluminantes A radiação eletromagnética no intervalo de comprimento de onda de 380 nm a 730 nm é vista como luz por nossos olhos. Comprimentos de onda baixos aparecem como luz azul, então o espectro continua do verde ao amarelo, laranja e vermelho. A radiação UV está localizada na faixa abaixo de 380 nm; a faixa acima de 730 nm é cha...

As pessoas frequentemente perguntam como a X-Rite recebeu seu nome e como nos tornamos líderes na arte e na ciência da cor. É realmente uma ótima história - uma que se concentra em inovação, empreendedorismo e determinação. O que há em um nome? A X-Rite foi fundada em 1957 por um grupo de engenheiros e empresários que tinham o desejo de iniciar um negócio baseado em inovação. Os membros fizeram uma t...

Durable goods and consumer electronics are no longer destined to be white, gray, and black. In fact, consumers are moving towards more classic colors and special effect finishes like metallics. To capitalize on this trend, brands need to bring innovative designs in new colors faster to market than ever before.   One trending color, the PANTONE Color of the Year 2020, is sure to capture the attention of durable good and consumer electronic brands. It is a simple, timeless, elegant, and endur...

For the last few Decembers, we’ve provided you with a list of “top color measurement blogs” for that respective year. As we reviewed this year’s list, we noticed that your favorite/ the most-read blogs could be categorized into a few buckets. So, without further ado, here’s 2018’s top blog topics!  2018’s Most Popular Color Measurement Topic: Tolerancing Not to our team’s surprise, Tolerancing – what it is/what it means for your busines...

Each year, Pantone announces its highly anticipated “Color of the Year”. The selection is intended to serve as a strategic direction for design and color-conscious industries as well as a conversation piece around our culture, where it is going and what we collectively need…and it certainly gets everyone talking about color!  Color is no longer just something we see and appreciate - it enhances and influences the way we experience life. Color, as a strategic element of d...

Assim como as coordenadas geográficas – longitude, latitude e altitude – os valores de cores L*a*b* nos fornecem uma maneira de localizar e comunicar as cores.  Qual é a história do L*a*b*?  Na década de 1940, Richard Hunter introduziu um modelo de três estímulos, Lab, que é dimensionado para atingir um espaçamento quase uniforme das diferenças de cores percebidas. Embora o Hunter's Lab tenha sido adotado como mo...

We at X-Rite Pantone are excited to express our enthusiasm toward this year’s ArtPrize Nine competition. Beginning on September 20th, this event will cover downtown Grand Rapids with art, bringing color to the forefront of so many minds. As a proud, Grand Rapids-based company, we are looking forward to contributing to this creative and inspiring global competition. By expanding the range of X-Rite Pantone activity from the ever-popular Pantone® Pathways to activities like entering our ver...

FUSE 2017 provided a wealth of valuable industry insight by showcasing how today’s brands are not only surviving, but thriving. While each scenario presented unique challenges and obstacles, one constant seemed abundantly clear:  brands must create a human connection between themselves and their consumers. Humanizing brands reinvigorates (or, in some cases, generates) a level of trust from consumers that is currently eroding. Speakers at FUSE highlighted a few specific examples of ways companie...

K 2016 begins today in Düsseldorf and runs through October 26th. As the #1 trade fair for the plastics and rubber industries, it’s a huge event featuring industry news, product demos, and networking. We’ll be in Hall 8b / Stand H65 showcasing our end-to-end X-Rite Pantone workflow solutions to help rubber manufacturers, compounders, masterbatchers, and converters get consistent color in a plastics workflow. Don’t miss your chance to speak with our color experts! (Here...

We’re intrigued by color, and that’s no surprise. From starting conversations to subconsciously moving people to make decisions, color inspires and motivates people on a daily basis. As a company, we want to help our customers understand this impact. Through our work with artists, designers, brand owners, and manufacturers, we define and control color, and this event was a great opportunity to showcase this passion. That’s part of the reason we get so involved in ArtPrize as sponsors, volunteer...

Passionate about color? We are too. As a company that prides itself on its color knowledge and enthusiasm, X-Rite Pantone is excited about the various ways ArtPrize showcases the power of color. Each fall, ArtPrize installs over 1000 works of art in downtown Grand Rapids, attracting thousands of visitors. By using consistent colors in its guides, signs, banners, flags, and merchandise, ArtPrize creates a colorful map that helps both visitors and locals see the city through a different perspectiv...

ArtPrize®, the nation’s largest art competition, begins today. As a leadership sponsor and a proud Grand Rapids-based company, we are honored to contribute to this creative and inspiring community event. ArtPrize attracts artists from around the world who use a mix of colors, textures, and substrates to express themselves in unique ways. Their creations, often demonstrating the color challenges that color professionals have in their plants or print shops, are installed indoors and outdoors throu...

Each year Printing News asks their readers which new products made the most difference in their productivity. We’re excited to announce that our very own i1iSis 2 and i1iSis 2 XL are among the winners! These two automated chart readers are the latest members of the popular i1iSis solutions family for pre-press, pre-media, photo, and pressroom color management and profiling. In high production environments such as photo processing, large format, fine art and high-speed digital printing, frequen...

drupa 2016 was such a success! It’s not often we get to spend so much time talking one-on-one with our customers from around the world, and we enjoyed every minute! We met so many wonderful people and learned so many things. Although it’s hard to pick, here are a few of our favorite experiences from drupa 2016. 1 – THE SYNERGY! This time at drupa, we decided to join forces with Esko, Enfocus and Pantone to showcase our end-to–end color management solutions. Although the drupa orga...

Drupa starts tomorrow, and we couldn’t be more excited! This year X-Rite Pantone is teaming up with our partners Esko, Enfocus, and MediaBeacon to showcase a number of innovations around digital color communication. The move to digital can make a big impact on a company’s bottom line… read our recent blog to learn how. Covering 900-square meters in Hall 8b, stand A23, our booth includes six print and packaging inspiration zones that walk visitors through an ideal color workflow, from color inspi...