Farben-Blog

Wie bei Ihnen stehen auch bei uns Digitalisierung und Nachhaltigkeit ganz oben auf der Agenda. Bei der Entwicklung von Textilien wird der Faktor Farbe jedoch häufig außer Acht gelassen. Die Digitalisierung der textilen Lieferkette und die Anwendung von Farbmanagement in jeder Phase zahlen sich letztendlich durch höhere Farbpräzision, schnellere Produktion und weniger Ausschuss aus. Mit über 60-jähriger Erfahrung als Anbieter von innovativen Lösungen für ...

Quality control is an important aspect of any color workflow. While many of our customers use a handheld spectrophotometer for QC, there are times a benchtop spectrophotometer is a more appropriate choice. Today we’ll explore some of the reasons you might want to choose a benchtop for quality control and offer tips to ensure your QC workflow is the best it can be. Top 5 Reasons to Choose a Benchtop Spectrophotometer for Quality Control 1 - Your Color Tolerances are Tight While our handhel...

Für ein erfolgreiches Qualitätskontrollprogramm benötigen Sie gute Geräte, zuverlässige Software und geschulte Anwender. Trotzdem gibt es noch typische Fallstricke, auf die man bei der Verwendung eines Spektralfotometers zur Analyse der Farbqualität achten sollte. Measuring plastic parts with the X-Rite Ci7800 benchtop spectrophotometer. Fünf große Fallstricke bei der Farbmessung 1. Unbrauchbare Standards und Proben Physische Standards und Proben h...

Whether you’re producing textiles, automotive parts, or plastic pieces, color needs to remain consistent or the final product will be rejected. Unfortunately, there are many ways for color errors to creep in during manufacturing. Creating and using accurate digital color standards is one way to combat these errors. Digital color standards can be used in software to specify and communicate color, formulate colorants and raw materials, and control color quality. They give brand owners peac...

Appearance is more than just color. It’s an all-inclusive look at everything inherent to an object, including texture, gloss, transparency, translucency, and special effects like sparkle and shimmer. When viewed from different angles or under different lighting conditions, appearance effects can change our perception of color. That's why it’s important to control both color and appearance throughout design and development.  Durable goods brands use appearance effects to captur...

Spektralfotometer sind ausgezeichnete Werkzeuge, um Proben anhand ihrer Farbstandards zu messen, um Unterschiede zu vergleichen, aber es kann schwierig sein, eine Farbgenauigkeit für unregelmäßig geformte Produkte wie Flüssigkeiten, Kunststoffe, Dosen und Pulver zu erreichen. Wir entwerfen eine Vielzahl von Teilen und Zubehör - auch "Rigs & Jigs" genannt - für viele unserer Instrumente, um ungewöhnliche Formen und Größen zu messen. Teile & Z...

There’s been a lot of research around the role color plays in how we expect food to taste. The fact is, we judge flavor by the color of the food or drink, even before the first taste. We expect red foods to taste sweet like strawberries or cherries. White should taste like vanilla, and green is probably limey and tart or minty. Color cues can even determine whether we take that first bite. Most of us won’t even consider trying a food like mashed potatoes or pumpkin pie if it is ...

Benchtop spectrophotometers measure in either transmission or reflectance mode to capture and quantify color on various opaque, transparent, and translucent samples, including glass, liquid, fabric, and plastic. Today we’ll explain the difference between transmission and reflectance measurements so you can determine which benchtop will meet your color measurement needs.  Transmission vs. Reflectance Measurements Both transmission and reflectance spectrophotometers emit all of the wav...

Spektralphotometer sind Farbmessgeräte zur Spezifikation und Kommunikation von Farbe und Überwachung der Farbpräzision während der gesamten Produktion. Spektralphotometer können nahezu alles messen – angefangen von Flüssigkeiten und Kunststoffen bis hin zu Papier, Metall und Stoffen. Markenartikler, Designer, Labortechniker und Qualitätskontrolleure in nahezu allen Branchen verlassen sich auf Spektralphotometer, um sicherzugehen, dass Farben von ihrer Spezifikation bis zur abschließenden Qualitä...

At X-Rite Pantone, we pride ourselves on our ability to help customers specify, communicate, formulate, and produce consistent color. You’re probably familiar with our major markets, like plastics, industrial coatings, and print & packaging. You may also be aware of the more “common” things we measure, like paint, printed surfaces, and textiles. But, as you look for the emergency exit on a plane, watch a butterfly float by, or choose the freshest package of cheese from the ...

When judging color, background can be a major distraction for the human eye. In fact, surrounding colors and patterns can actually change the perception of the color you’re trying to focus on. One of the wonderful things about color measurement instruments like colorimeters and spectrophotometers is that they can’t be distracted. They aren’t susceptible to variables such as fatigue, age or color vision deficiency. They aren’t even aware that a surround exists – they...

Ganz gleich, was Sie herstellen: Farbmessungen sorgen dafür, dass Ihre Farben während der gesamten Produktion präzise und konstant bleiben. Bei der Auswahl des für Ihre Anforderungen am besten geeigneten Spektralphotometers sollten Sie vor allem die Art der zu messenden Oberfläche berücksichtigen. Die Farbmessung bei glänzenden Oberflächen ist problematisch, weil Glanz die Farbwahrnehmung beeinflusst. Glanz entsteht, wenn eine Oberfläche das auftreffende Licht spiegelnd reflektiert. Da Spektra...

From laundry soap to paper to socks, it seems that manufacturers everywhere are trying to achieve the brightest whites, and consumers are certainly buying in. These companies use chemical dyes called OBAs to make their whites “whiter” and stay ahead of the competition. OBA stands for optical brightening agent. You may also have heard it called FWA (Fluorescent Whitening Agent), optical brightener, fluorescent dye, or even just whitener. An optical brightening agent is a special type of dye that ...

Win an iPad! NPE 2015, The International Plastics Showcase, will be held in Orlando, Florida from March 23 through the 27th. It’s a great opportunity to learn about current trends and see live demonstrations of the latest technologies from every sector of the plastics industry. With more than 400 exhibits, it’s expected to be the biggest plastics showcase ever and a great chance to get up-close and personal with product experts in your field. X-Rite and Pantone are thrilled to once again be part...

Color mistakes are expensive, and can happen anywhere in the process – during specification, formulation, manufacturing, assembly or – worst case – all of the above. Colors easily drift from raw materials to parts assembly and production – one loose screw in a projection molder and the color will shift. When productions and parts are created in various locations, things get further complicated. Who has time for rework? And who wants to explain the wasted time and materials? Every mistake is expensive. Adding mistakes to mistakes across the entire process is very expensive.

In addressing these issues, data is your friend. Measuring color, across the supply chain and during manufacturing and assembly is the only true way to ensure that color remains consistent. This is foundational to creating a color-managed workflow, and X-Rite’s new Ci7x00 series of benchtops sets a new benchmark for the industry. With up to five aperture sizes and three automated UV filters, the Ci7x00 devices can measure pretty much any surface, size and texture, including opaque, transparent and translucent, wet or dry, with or without gloss. Couple this with customer-friendly service and on-site maintenance for many issues, and you will be the color hero in your department.

So how do you know the color you measured is the color you want?