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Flexo inks, anilox wear, shifting films - flexible packaging colour has a lot working against it. Here's what actually keeps it inside tolerance run after run.

One off-colour carton can wreck a shelf display and a brand's reputation in one glance. Here's why brand owners are so strict about packaging colour.

Big prints come with big colour headaches - edge-to-edge drift, dozens of substrates, matching other print processes. Here's how to keep it all under control.

Digital presses don't behave like offset presses, and their colour drifts differently too. Here's how to keep digital print colour under control.

Chasing ISO print certification, or just want to work to the standard? Here's exactly where X-Rite instruments fit into meeting the requirements.

Not sure what colour gear is actually worth buying? Here's the short list of tools every print shop should own, and exactly why each one matters.

A press drifts the moment nobody's watching it. Here's how X-Rite instruments keep calibration on track and colour consistent, run after run.

The gold on the label has to be the same gold every single time. Here's how packaging printers make that happen, run after run, year after year.

Every rejected sheet is money down the drain. Here's how catching colour drift early saves substrate, ink, press time and labour on every single job.

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.