FlexoGrunt
Well-known member
Hello everyone,
We are currently using a spot color across several product lines and of course these different products are printed in different locations (in China). Our first thought to get the colors in order was to establish a DeltaE standard and issue that along with the Pantone color to the vendors. Well the first round of samples came back and they do not match (go figure).
The DeltaE of the glossy elements to the Pantone book is at 2.5 or less.
The DeltaE of the matte elements to the Pantone book is at 8.5 - 9.2.
The vendor of the matte materials is saying that they are merely hitting the book at press and because the lamination is applied after the run and their lamination variance (not only our gloss to their matte but also run to run!) getting a tighter tolerance cannot be expected. They then asked us to send them a finished sample of a gloss box to match to (ok, why not just hit the Pantone?).
I am a little stuck as to how to proceed with these vendors since our internal processes have us matching Pantone colors across substrates all the time.
Thank you in advance for your input.
We are currently using a spot color across several product lines and of course these different products are printed in different locations (in China). Our first thought to get the colors in order was to establish a DeltaE standard and issue that along with the Pantone color to the vendors. Well the first round of samples came back and they do not match (go figure).
The DeltaE of the glossy elements to the Pantone book is at 2.5 or less.
The DeltaE of the matte elements to the Pantone book is at 8.5 - 9.2.
The vendor of the matte materials is saying that they are merely hitting the book at press and because the lamination is applied after the run and their lamination variance (not only our gloss to their matte but also run to run!) getting a tighter tolerance cannot be expected. They then asked us to send them a finished sample of a gloss box to match to (ok, why not just hit the Pantone?).
I am a little stuck as to how to proceed with these vendors since our internal processes have us matching Pantone colors across substrates all the time.
Thank you in advance for your input.