Reduced inventory. Faster time to formulation.

Increasingly, printers and packaging converters are focused on standardizing operations to reduce costs, improve quality and increase productivity. But often the ink room is overlooked in these standardization efforts. Managing ink and ensuring both quality of incoming materials and accuracy of ink formulations are key elements of delivering good color quality. If ink doesn’t meet specifications, then all of the other standardization work can be for naught.

Uniting the entire workflow via digital color management and with industry leading devices is the only way to stay ahead of a growing demand for faster, more precise and accurate color. Through dependent color standards and best practices, you can reduce approval cycles, achieve better quality compliance, accurately formulate ink, reduce the number of on-press corrections, and increase financial savings by managing leftover inks.

Customizable solutions from X-Rite Pantone provide Ink professionals the ability to:

• Provide optimum initial color matches for intended viewing conditions.
• Better manage raw materials and meet supplier requirements by reducing colorant inventory by 50% by using higher quantities of fewer materials.
• Use existing assortments to save time and maximize the use of existing inks providing a savings of 90% of waste inventory.
• Reduce dollars spent on colorants (dyes/pigments/concentrates, etc) by 20%.
• Reduce production adds by 50% when a mismatch is made and increase first time match rate.
• Reduce environmental impact by reducing waste colorant inventory immediately by 25-30%.