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Good print quality control isn't about looking harder at the sheet, it's about measuring it properly. Here's how X-Rite instruments make that possible.

Miss the colour, lose the client. Here's why consistent colour reproduction is the real product commercial printers are actually selling to customers.

Found a colour you love in the wild? Here's how to turn it into a real, usable Pantone reference instead of guessing with chips and fan decks by eye.

Pantone gives you the colour name, X-Rite proves you actually hit it. Here's how the two systems work together as one complete colour management system.

From a cushion cover to a corporate brand colour, CAPSURE turns what you see into a Pantone number your supplier can actually order.

Point it at a wall, a tile, a fabric, press the button, get a Pantone match. Here's how CAPSURE takes colour matching out of the lab.

An ICC profile is only as good as the measurement behind it. Here's how X-Rite gear builds profiles you can actually trust in production.

Every colour call a designer makes starts on a screen. Here's how to make sure that screen is telling the truth, from brief through to final print.

If your prints never quite match what you saw on screen, your monitor is lying to you. Here's how photographers fix that for good.

Ten minutes with an i1Display and your monitor stops lying to you. Here's exactly how the calibration and profiling process works, step by step.

One scan across hundreds of colour patches, one accurate profile. Here's why prepress teams, designers and photographers rely on the i1Pro 3.

Bench or handheld? It comes down to where you measure and what you're measuring. Here's a straight answer on which spectrophotometer fits your business.

Batch-to-batch colour drift is every plastics manufacturer's nightmare. Here's how the Ci64 catches it before it ruins a full production run.

Sphere geometry, rugged industrial build, and software that plugs straight into your QC system. Here's exactly why manufacturers keep buying the Ci64.

Plastics, textiles, coatings, cosmetics: the Ci64 handles all of them with one instrument. Here's how it works and where it fits in your quality program.

One instrument, a dozen jobs: here's exactly where the eXact 2 earns its keep on a busy commercial print floor.

Still running an original eXact? Here's exactly what the eXact 2 adds on top, and whether the upgrade is actually worth the spend.

Packaging brands don't forgive colour drift, on any substrate. Here's how the eXact 2 keeps every material and every run on target.

Brand owners have tightened their colour tolerances and their ISO requirements. Here's why that combination is pushing printers to upgrade their gear.

The eXact 2 replaces your densitometer and spectrophotometer in one device. Here's a rundown of what it actually does on the press.

Colour can fall apart at any handoff between design and the factory floor. Here's how to build a five-stage workflow that holds it together end to end.