Demonstration of OBC module at GRAPH EXPO

06 Sep '08

5 min read

X-Rite's color experts will demonstrate how CxF applies to real world color scenarios, from design and prepress, to commercial, digital printing and packaging and across any industry where faithful communication of color and total appearance data is mission critical, including design, print production, architecture, manufacturing, fashion, and film and video.

Color professionals from all points of the production supply chain will see how CxF is able to faithfully carry the entire set of total appearance color reference data supplied by the content creator throughout the production and supply chain, maintaining the integrity of the original design, allowing global communication with unmatched accuracy, and achieving today's stringent demands by brand owners and specifiers for increasingly low delta tolerances.

CxF can include spectral color values, named colors such as PANTONE, color spaces and appearance effects (specific lighting conditions, type of substrate, type of ink, density, opacity, transparency of the color, gloss, texture, position and shape of color patches), as well as commercial aspects, mathematical, optical conditions, etc. CxF enhances existing standards, like PANTONE, by bringing a new set of dimensions to the colors that can be transmitted across workflows, in any global production supply chain.

Two new additions to the PANTONE Goe System, PANTONE GoeBridge coated and PANTONE Color Cue 2.1, will also be showcased on the X-Rite/Pantone booth. Available in a portable, fan-guide format, GoeBridge lets creatives accurately visualize and evaluate how the more than 2,000 solid colors in the PANTONE Goe System will reproduce in CMYK on coated paper.

The guide also provides CMYK, sRGB and HTML data for repurposing projects in multiple color spaces. Pantone's award-winning portable color identification tool, PANTONE Color Cue 2.1, which lets users instantly capture and store the closest PANTONE Color from any surface, will also be on display. Color Cue 2.1 now includes the PANTONE Goe coated and uncoated libraries, as well as the CMYK values from GoeBridge, for a total of seven PANTONE Libraries.

Attendees will also be able to view the recently launched ColorMunki family of products, including ColorMunki Design and ColorMunki Create. Developed for graphics professionals from freelancers to agencies and corporate in-house designers, ColorMunki Design allows users to quickly and accurately capture colors from any substrate, calibrate monitors, projectors and printers for accurate display-to-print matching, and verify spot colors for process-safe reproduction in any medium.

ColorMunki Create, an affordable starting point for users whose primary requirement is color palette creation, offers color selection from system-level color pickers, inspirational images, color harmonies and key word searches, with the ability to snap built-in libraries to PANTONE Colors.

Reflecting the company's ubiquitous industry presence, X-Rite and Pantone color standards, devices, software and services will also be showcased on a number of other manufacturers' and partners' stands including Adobe, Canon, Epson, GASC, HP, Komori, Quark and Xerox.

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