Please Have a Look at our ColorProse Articles:
The Whimsical, Technical - Sometime Confusing - Language of Color
Opinion and judgement about color swirls through the apparel supply web, from the designer to the mill to the consumer. The way we feel about color is often as important as what we see. The language of color can be both fun and frustrating. But when it comes to manufacturing and delivering goods on-shade, on-cost and on-time, the lack of a common color language keeps the process from being as efficient as it could be. (PDF, 138 kB)
Getting To Acceptability
With properly defined color tolerances and a good color standard it is possible to automate the acceptability decision in most cases. The challenge is to find the correct balance between tolerances that are tight enough to avoid glaring problems without frustrating the production and supply process. (PDF, 96 kB)
Engineered Color Standards - The Archroma Solution To Color Problems
Color management has become a great challenge for the apparel industry with global sourcing. The Engineered Color Standard™ attempts to address some of the color-related issues faced by retailers. (PDF, 48 kB)
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An Archroma Christmas Story
A story about tops and bottoms with a moral about color matching! (PDF, 73 kB)
The More You Look, The More You See
Experienced professionals became so adept at perceiving very small color differences that manufacturing throughput and product delivery suffered. Coordination of visual with instrumental evaluation restores reasonableness to the process. The distinction between perceptibility and acceptability in evaluating color differences needs to be made. (PDF, 127 kB)
The Future of Color Is Now
The textile and apparel industry is in the midst of significant restructuring. The role of retail organizations, textile mills as well as colorant/chemical suppliers is changing. (PDF, 64 kB)
Megatrends : Globally Positioned Retailers Become Dye Specifiers
Major retail organizations, dependent on global vendor networks are beginning to see the value in specifying dyes for a particular shade in addition to more traditional specification. What are the key advantages of specifying dyes ? This article is a must read....(PDF, 145 kB)
Taking Care of Standards
It is easy to overlook the tremendous creative energy that goes into developing seasonal fashion palettes and underestimate the importance of those small pieces of fabric distributed as standards to the financial and brand prosperity of the retail company. (PDF, 68 kB)
Just What Is CMC DE
Lower your stress, speed up delivery and control costs...all by knowing how to make appropriate use of numeric color differences. (PDF, 86 kB)
Seven Characteristics of Great Color Standards
No color management system can function effectively without good color standards. Do your color standards have these seven characteristics ? (Full PDF Article, 46 kB)