X-Rite recently demonstrated end-to-end digital solutions to optimise the textile value chain.
At AATCC’s 2023 Textile Discovery Summit, X-Rite Incorporated and Pantone LLC demonstrated the latest colour and appearance solutions designed to help companies create and share digital materials across teams and suppliers to streamline the design to manufacturing process.
In addition, X-Rite highlighted how an end-to-end digital textile colour programme can cut production time in half by expediting colour approvals, formulation, and colour evaluations. The result is an efficient digital process that saves time, money and reduces a company’s carbon footprint.
‘Appearance technology has evolved, making it more accessible and easier than ever for brands and suppliers to create and share digital material libraries,’ said Matthew Adby, Product Management Director, X-Rite.
Users can build digital colour palettes and create digital colour standards to share across a global supply chain. Attendees could learn which X-Rite spectrophotometer is best for their textile or digital printing application and how to digitally communicate colour and appearance characteristics between designers, brands, dye houses, and OEMs.
Attendees could see how the Ci7000 Series and MetaVue VS3200 spectrophotometers combined with X-Rite PANTORA™ software empower brands and textile suppliers to digitally visualise colour and appearance characteristics of fabrics and meshes to expedite product development and reduce oversampling.
Attendees could learn how Color iMatch formulation software supports a digital workflow, enabling dye houses to optimise initial colour matches, reuse leftover materials, and reduce wasteful formulation attempts.
Attendees could learn how X-Rite colour measurement solutions capture spectral data on various textile materials, including patterns, textures, performance fabrics, accessories, and other hard-to-measure samples.
Users can calibrate and profile digital textile presses for accurate colour. Attendees could see how i1Pro 3 Plus with 8mm aperture can profile and assure print quality for dye sublimation, direct-to-garment, roll-to-roll fabric, and backlit film applications.
AATCC’s 2023 Textile Discovery Summit was held from September 12-14, in Greenville, South Carolina.
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