¿Qué ocurre cuando hay que gestionar más de 2000 colores de marca en una compleja cadena global de suministro de empaques? ¡Las cosas se complican! Si bien puede parecer más fácil crear un color nuevo que escarbar en las bases de datos o carpetas de reducciones para encontrar la coincidencia más cercana, el problema se presenta más tarde cuando se enfrenta a una biblioteca enorme e inmanejable. Uno de nuestros clientes, una conocida empresa...
El anuncio del Color del Año Pantone siempre es emocionante. No solo marca las próximas tendencias, sino que también proporciona a los propietarios de marcas y diseñadores una guía crucial para el marketing y el desarrollo de productos. Sin embargo, quienes se encargan de fabricar productos y empaques con colores de tendencia (como el Ultimate Gray and Illuminating de 2021) saben que no ocurre "por arte de magia". Incorporar nuevos colores requiere tiempo y esf...
Warm weather is just around the corner and spring is in the air! Fluffy yellow chicks… Delicate pink tulips… Soft green sprouts poking through the ground… And, of course, spring M&M'S®! Advertisers target our springtime emotions through pastel colors. Pastels have a calming effect, and everywhere you look companies are using them to feed our desire to feel a bit of spring. Today we’ll take a look at the psychology of color, how marke...
Se ha dicho que todo lo que necesitas saber lo aprendiste en el jardín de infantes. ¿Esta frase suena cierta para los diseñadores de impresión y empaque? En el espíritu de la primavera, intentamos usar una actividad infantil simple, teñir huevos, para resolver algunos de los problemas de color más desconcertantes que enfrenta la relación diseñador/impresora de empaques. Aqu&ia...
Tim Mouw is our Manager of Applications Engineering & Technical Support for the Americas. Tim is so knowledgeable about the impact of color in many industries, and his stories always intrigue us. Tim has authored many X-Rite Pantone blogs, including: What is metamerism, and why should you care? Effective ways to measure reflective surfaces What’s sabotaging your sustainability efforts? 5 color evaluation pitfalls to avoid Why is controlling color so hard? We recently sat down with him to...
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...
Sharing a strong passion for how color can transform a face, mood or even an attitude, Pantone® has once again partnered with Sephora, the leading beauty specialty retailer, to create another extraordinary PANTONE Color of the Year cosmetic collection. Launched on December 26th, the SEPHORA + PANTONE UNIVERSE collection includes a 24-color eyes palette, a matte lipstick in each color, and a 5-piece lip gloss set. The first SEPHORA + PANTONE UNIVERSE collection was released in 2011 with Tangerine...
As we’ve talked about in previous posts, proper lighting conditions are crucial for evaluating color. The best way to know you’re seeing color accurately is to evaluate your samples in a quality light booth. But what if you don’t have a light booth available? Pantone has solved this problem with its LIGHTING INDICATOR Stickers. They’re economical, easy to use, and the second best way to find out if your viewing conditions are right for color evaluation. Here’...
Whether you’re printing on press or replicating a brand’s colors on the web, PANTONE’s Color Systems are the gold standard for communicating color specification and quality control. They provide a common language for color so specifiers and manufacturers can be sure they understand the customer’s expectations and reproduce those colors, even if they’re a world away. The PANTONE PLUS SERIES COLOR BRIDGE Set provides process color simulations of all solid PANTONE Colors as a side-by-side compariso...
Warm weather is just around the corner and spring is in the air! Fluffy yellow chicks… Delicate pink tulips… Soft green sprouts poking through the ground… And, of course, spring M&M'S®! Advertisers target our springtime emotions through pastel colors. Pastels have a calming effect, and everywhere you look companies are using them to feed our desire to feel a bit of spring. Today we’ll take a look at the psychology of color, how marke...