Moving to a digital color workflow can help streamline production.

Edited by Lilli Manolis Sherman

Manufacturers need new ways to formulate and produce accurate color faster, with less waste. According to Tim Mouw, applications engineering & technical support manager for X-Rite, moving to a digital workflow allows brands and their plastic suppliers, including masterbatchers, molders and extruders, to operate more efficiently. Digital color enables companies to stay agile and better meet changing consumer and market demands, and can be an effective way to streamline production, stay agile and meet sustainability goals.

Mouw addresses this topic in depth, including the use of Pantone as well as the more commonly chosen option of custom digital color standards in a feature article titled by the same name posted on our webite (www.PTonline.com). He provides five key tips on how to select the right spectrophotometer to create custom digital color standards and explains the three common ways to share color data in order to streamline production for accurate color and quality control, as well as the monitoring of quality control in a digital workflow through the use of QC software.

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