With increasing demands for colour equity across
ever wider geographies and packaging substrates, it is essential that every
provider from brand owner specifier, to print and packaging supplier,
contribute to establish a consistent and robust colour communication workflow.
Flint Group’s Paper & Board business has
entered into an exciting new partnership with X-Rite, the global leader in
colour science and technology to deliver a colour solution that leverages the
X-Rite eXact and NetProfiler to reliably meet the colour management needs of
each stakeholder in the package print value and supply chain.
VIVO Colour Solutions is a dynamic colour
communication and service platform supported by Flint Group’s centralised
colour service provider, the Global Colour Centre (GCC). VIVO ColourCloud
utilises the eXact device to provide a central web-based self-service digital
colour repository, containing thousands of approved and tested colours.
Customers benefit from the ability to easily search and download CxF files,
DigiSwatches, and ink recipes.
Ray Cheydleur, Printing and Imaging Product
Portfolio Manager for X-Rite, comments, “This partnership will benefit Flint
Group’s customer base of printers around the world. Utilising X-Rite's NetProfiler software for
verifying device performance, along with the award-winning eXact handheld
spectrophotometer, will provide ultimate agreement of measured colours amongst
Flint Group and their printing and converter clientele. When paired with VIVO Colour Solutions, this
technology will provide the basis for converter confidence in their ink supply,
and a competitive advantage to deliver consistent colour packaging.”
Stuart Duffy, Flint Group Director, Professional
Services Paper & Board says, “We are excited to have reached agreement on
this unique partnership with X-Rite, the leader in colour measurement
equipment.”
Mr. Duffy goes on to say, “Following rigorous beta
testing at a number of corrugated sites, our initial expectations have been
surpassed. The sites conducted hundreds
of searches from VIVO ColourCloud with every download achieving 100% ‘Right
First Time.’ This level of performance can only be delivered through a
consistent and managed digital workflow along with the support of X-Rite’s
eXact spectrophotometer. This results in
an effective end-to-end colour management process that fits the needs of
prepress, printing, and packaging companies of all sizes while reducing
variability and improving efficiencies.
I have no doubt VIVO Colour Solutions, in combination with X-Rite
equipment, can become an industry benchmark.”
Stay tuned for the planned releases of Flint
Group’s new VIVO Colour Solutions modules as the company establishes a New
Normal in digital colour management.
