How to Print Consistent Colors?

“When other conditions being equal, different printers can be adjusted to keep unified colors.” a technician told us. However, it is really hard to ensure all the conditions are equal. Equipment of different brands may produce different colors. The new and old print head can result in different colors. Also, different materials even printed with the same machine may present different colors. Then how to keep the color consistent while printing?

One of the effective ways is to use the color control systems. There are quite a lot of such systems in the market now. And most of them promise to keep the colors unified for different equipment and different materials. To some extent, the color control system has broken through some limitations for color unity. But while you put this system into use, you will still encounter some problems:

First, the auto color transformation is complex, and all artworks should be sent to the headquarter data to analyze and match;

Second, color transformation is too time-consuming for small orders since it takes time to do the color matching for so many different artworks.

Under this situation, we need to find another way to solve the color matching problem for small orders. At first, we can try to use the ICC curve. The ICC curve is an international color matching standard that is used to keep the color unified from the beginning to finish. By adopting the ICC curve, we can achieve consistent color, and at the same time, we don’t need to be bothered with the long color transformation time.

However, the ICC curve cannot solve all the problems. Mistakes will be made when it comes to solid color printing and problems like color value superposition still exist. To solve this problem, another color-matching standard-- Pantone C-- is introduced. Pantone C provides a standard for the color conversion from RGB to CMYK. Then when we try to keep colors in uniform, the color palette can be used for the solid color and ICC curve for other gradient colors.

In sum, keeping color in uniform is a tough and urgent problem that needs to be further explored. By drawing on past experience and taking advantage of advanced technology, we believe a better result will be achieved.

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