Color Measurement for Apparel Brands

X-Rite Pantone offers the right tools, technology, and services for designers and brand owners to:

• Concept and quickly communicate color palettes to internal stakeholders and supply chain partners.
• Ensure color cohesiveness and color accuracy in cross-merchandised product categories.
• Visualize color and appearance characteristics both physically and digitally to expedite product development and reduce oversampling using industry-leading color measurement technology.
• Measure color on a variety of materials such as patterned or textured surfaces, performance fabrics, accessories, and other hard-to-measure samples.
• Optimize textile color formulation with software that can accelerate color development through better first match performance and with fewer correction steps.
• Ensure all stakeholders are utilizing the same digital color standards from design to color formulation and quality control to ensure consistent color across a network of suppliers.
• Visually evaluate your textile color sample under proper lighting conditions using an industry standard light booth, fit-to-finish rooms or luminaires that offer up to 7 different light sources.
• Assess an entire network of suppliers to ensure they are fit to meet the strictest color specifications.

Color Specification and Communication

With X-Rite color specification and communication tools and technology, you can ensure the highest level of color accuracy and consistency will be upheld.

• Ci7860: Benchtop sphere spectrophotometer that is ideal for digital color standard creation as it delivers 25% tighter specifications than any other industrial instrument.
• Color iQC: Quality control software that ensures consistent color throughout the supply chain through adaptable and configurable software options as well as other premium technology features.
• PANTORA: Specify and communicate digital color standards digitally via an AxF file to all global supply chain stakeholders to ensure color consistency.
• Textile Color Hub: Enables brands to combine traditional and isolated components into a complete digital color solution to securely communicate and control specified brand colors. Textile Color Hub improves sustainability by getting 95% of lab dips right the first time while reducing waste, CO2 emissions, and time to market by 75%.

Color Measurement and Quality Control

X-Rite's color measurement tools for quality control are ideal for any apparel brand that needs to ensure the best color is produced on any material around the world.

• MetaVue VS3200: Non-contact 45:0 imaging spectrophotometer is used for measuring color on multi-colored fabric samples to quantify the true color.
• Ci7860: Benchtop sphere spectrophotometer used to measure solid color and enables reflection and transmission measurements across transparent and translucent materials.
• Color iQC: Quality control software that ensures consistent color throughout the supply chain through adaptable and configurable software options.
• NetProfiler: Instrument performance technology that verifies and optimizes the performance of color measurement devices to reduce color measurement variance among instruments.

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