Deliver on Customer Expectations by Managing Color for Commercial Print
As the cost of materials continues to increase and the demand for shorter runs further impacts profitability, last minute changes, difficulty achieving customer requirements, and adhering to print specifications can feel overwhelming. Managing your process and achieving the very best color – during specification and design, throughout formulation, on press, and in every finished product – is key. X-Rite Pantone can help you get there.
When your clients are producing marketing and promotional materials, color has the power to break through the clutter and establish brand identity. At X-Rite Pantone, we partner with our customers to identify areas of workflow sophistication and deliver scalable solutions that cater to specific needs and growth opportunities. Our range of tools includes color standards, software, and instrumentation to streamline workflows and produce timely and consistent color across each substrate and every job.
Customizable solutions from X-Rite Pantone provide Commercial Print professionals the ability to:
- Achieve top performance and improve ROI with automated and closed loop measurement technology
- Ensure consistent quality and matching print specifications to ensure colors specified in initial designs are achievable and carried through to final product
- Reduce the cost of labor, ink (for ink suppliers), and materials by up to 60% faster make ready
- Eliminate errors resulting from physical masters with digital standards
- Minimize operator intervention during press runs
- Take the emotion out of color evaluation in prepress and pressroom with fact-based color data and quality assurance tools
- Verify customer color requirements during job set up with integrated scorecards
X-Rite Pantone’s comprehensive product solutions address your immediate challenges and put you on a path to achieve accurate and consistent color each and every time.
Formulation:
It is important to have the right tools for formulation to deliver fast and accurate color recipes that account for substrates, ink volume, and the re-use of leftovers. With X-Rite formulation solutions, you can reduce the steps to an acceptable match, manage ink recipes and assortments, provide consistent color reproduction, improve basic material handling, and reduce hazardous waste and ink inventories.
- InkFormulation Software: InkFormulation Software is part of an end-to-end color workflow that gives ink suppliers, printers, and packaging converters flexibility and control over recipes and assortments, improves basic material handling, simplifies definition of the right ink film thickness and helps reduce hazardous waste. It also makes it easier to use leftover inks and press returns, reducing overall ink inventories.
- PantoneLIVE: Specifies and communicates color standards throughout the production process to ensure accurate and repeatable color regardless of substrate, printing technology, or ink types used.
Quality Control:
It’s imperative to your operation to have consistent color throughout the supply chain using configurable options. X-Rite provides industry-leading quality control hardware and software to ensure color can be easily measured, controlled, and evaluated throughout the workflow and across the globe.
- eXact 2: The most versatile and powerful tool in your color toolbox. eXact 2 enables you to easily see dot gain, preserve job history, and efficiently inspect patches with the digital loupe functionality. Using eXact 2, your commercial print operation can save time and reduce waste through workflow continuity.
- ColorCert: In an increasingly competitive environment, printers must ensure color is right the first time and every time. Adding ColorCert Desktop Tools to your workflow aids in the creation of print specifications, provides measurement and certification of proofs, and provides print process control on press and in real time.
Learn how an X-Rite closed loop solution that includes a scanning system and integrated third party software offers commercial printers an affordable way to automate press process control.
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