Textile Color Measurement

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.