Accelerate Speed to Market with Textile Color Measurement Solutions
The textile industry is one of the most complex, challenging, and competitive markets in present day. While trying to keep up with consumer trends and colors, textile brands and suppliers must also contend with increasing consumer demands for better color quality, limited resources and fabric, sustainability and governmental concerns for the environment, and – most recently – global pandemics that slow or halt the entire textile supply chain. The need to continually optimize and stay ahead of technology and process improvements has never been more critical.
To stay competitive in the global market and manage sustainability initiatives, textile manufacturers must produce colors quickly, accurately, and with little waste. X-Rite offers complete solutions to help streamline the color development process, efficiently formulate dyes, and improve overall color quality across a global production supply chain of dyeing, finishing and assembly partners.
X-Rite and Pantone solutions for textile color measurement can help digitize many aspects of a color program to achieve accurate color and reduce a global footprint to improve overall product quality:
- Virtualize color and appearance characteristics in design rendering software to cut down the need for physical samples.
- Leverage a private digital color library and material repository to streamline color development and reduce the need to ship physical textile references back and forth.
- Communicate color specifications along with tolerances and illuminant requirements and digitally approve lab dips to reduce the approval cycle from weeks to days.
- Formulate dyes using software and color measurement devices that yield better matches in fewer steps and with fewer corrections and work off wasted material during color formulation.
- Measure materials using benchtop and portable color measurement spectrophotometers for textiles that capture color on transparent, translucent, reflective, textured, and optically brightened surfaces and materials.
- Measure color on a moving fabric production line using inline color measurement instruments that minimize waste and improve color quality throughout production.
- Visually evaluate textile color samples under proper lighting conditions using an industry standard light booth, fit-to-finish rooms, or overhead luminaires that offer up to 7 different light sources.
With over 60 years of innovation and proven expertise in color management and color measurement, X-Rite has solutions to support everyone in the textile industry to ensure color accuracy and color quality are upheld from concept to store, accurately and efficiently.
Apparel Brands
Transform your apparel color workflow by digitizing color communication, accurately virtualizing color and appearance characteristics, and integrating industry-leading color measurement and production solutions that the entire supply chain can easily adopt.
Dye Houses
Achieve the best color matches with a complete suite of color formulation and quality control color measurement solutions that optimize and simplify color formulation.
Textile Vendors
Improve production and reduce rework with comprehensive color measurement technology that spans the entire workflow.
Digital Textile Printers
Create more accurate color profiles on a broad range of textile materials for fast production with less wasted time and materials.
Introducing Textile Color Hub
Textile Color Hub is an advanced solution for digital textile brand color specification. It enables brands and suppliers to securely communicate spectral data, tolerances, and illuminants and evaluate lab dips digitally without the need for physical samples. This not only decreases the carbon footprint but also promotes responsible textile practices.
- Achieve 95% accuracy of lab dips on the first attempt
- Reduce waste with only one startup and wash-up
- Reduces CO2 emissions with one dip and zero physical samples
- Improve time to market by 75%.
This smart color solution empowers brands and suppliers to improve sustainability in the textile industry for:
- Textile Grouping: This involves categorizing textiles based on characteristics like fiber type, weave structure, weight, color, pattern, and intended use, aiding in various industries such as fashion and interior design.
- Center to Salvage (CSV): This process aligns the pattern or design of a fabric precisely with its salvage edge, ensuring a quality finish that prevents fraying.
- Lab to Bulk: Transitioning from small-scale laboratory production to large-scale bulk production of textiles involves optimizing production techniques and ensuring consistent quality on a commercial scale.
Integrating Textile Color Hub further enhances the efficiency and sustainability of textile production, positioning brands at the forefront of digital transformation in the textile supply chain.
Learn more about Textile Color Hub.
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