X-Rite Pantone is excited to exhibit at Fakuma. Like many of you, digitization and sustainability are top of mind. We invite you to stop by our booth to see how an end-to-end lifecycle that focuses on color can help you: Fulfill your customers’ color demands Ensure color consistency with varying batches of recycled raw material Accelerate material color and appearance approval Minimize color surprises at delivery Actively decrease your global footprint The Key t...

Al igual que usted, la digitalización y sostenibilidad están entre nuestras principales prioridades. No obstante, el color a menudo se pasa por alto cuando se trata del desarrollo de productos textiles. La digitalización de la cadena de suministro de la industria textil y la aplicación de la gestión del color en cada etapa logran amortizar la inversión a través de un color más preciso, y de una producción más rápida con...

En esta época del año, Internet está lleno de “Los 10 mejores” de todo. Es una tradición que hemos adoptado desde 1940, cuando la revista Billboard publicó su primera lista clasificando las canciones grabadas más vendidas. Desde entonces, otros se han subido al tren y destacan las tendencias más populares del año anterior.   Llevamos publicando nuestros blogs más leídos desde 2016, y nos alegra ver que algunos...

Espectrómetro vs Espectrofotómetro | ¿Cuál es la diferencia? | X-Rite  Cuando clientes recién comienzan a gestionar el color, suelen preguntar: "¿Cuál es la diferencia de espectrómetro vs espectrofotómetro?".   Con una diferencia tan mínima en la escritura, es fácil cometer un error ortográfico y obtener la respuesta incorrecta para esta pregunta sobre el color.   Entonces... ¿cu...

Para hacer la medición del color, un dispositivo ilumina con una luz brillante una muestra, captura la cantidad de luz que se transmite o refleja en una longitud de onda en el rango de 380 nm a 780 nm, y la cuantifica como una medición espectral.   La medición del color es necesaria para especificar, cuantificar, comunicar, formular y verificar la calidad del color en los trabajos en los que los colores tienen una importancia crítica.   Debido a ...

Aprende sobre luz, curvas de reflexión, agentes de brillo óptico y más.     Iluminantes La radiación electromagnética en el rango de longitud de onda de 380 nm a 730 nm es percibida como luz por nuestros ojos. Las longitudes de onda bajas se ven como luz azul, luego el espectro continúa desde el verde hasta el amarillo, naranja y rojo. La radiación UV está ubicada en el rango por debajo de 380 nm; el rango por encima de 730 nm ...

Las personas a menudo preguntan cómo X-Rite obtuvo su nombre y cómo llegamos a ser líderes en el arte y la ciencia del color. Es realmente una gran historia, una que se centra en la innovación, el emprendimiento y la determinación. ¿Qué hay en un nombre? X-Rite fue fundada en 1957 por un grupo de ingenieros y empresarios que tenían el deseo de iniciar un negocio basado en la innovación. Los miembros hicieron una tormenta de ideas pa...

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...

Al igual que las coordenadas geográficas (longitud, latitud y altitud), los valores de color L*a*b* nos brindan una forma de ubicar y comunicar los colores.  ¿Cuál es la historia de L*a*b*?  En la década de 1940, Richard Hunter introdujo un modelo de tres estímulos, Lab, que se escala para lograr un espaciado casi uniforme de las diferencias de color percibidas. Aunque Hunter's Lab se adoptó como modelo de facto para trazar coordenadas de color...

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...