Spot color matching is a key part of color management in printing industry, and there is big defects in the traditional color matching methods:

1. Time waste

If traditional spot color matching methods are used: Many companies have at least 50 spot colors each month, and some single printing machines have a work load of 110 spot colors each month. We assume 80 pot colors are matched each month, and 40 minutes of shutdown and matching is required for each spot color, then we have to spend 38,400 minutes in matching spot color ink, equal to 27 days. We assume RMB 10,000 of printing income can be earned each day (24 hours), then the loss in one exceeds RMB 270,000.

2. Serious ink waste

In spot color matching mechanism, preparation of excess ink instead of insufficient ink is allowed, and workers often prepare excess ink basing on their experience. If the excess ink is not used timely, there may be many solidified ink dregs as there are many air bubbles in the ink due to no process of air discharging, leading to serious quality defect in the printed products. Therefore, many companies discard the residual spot color ink after a relatively short period, and this causes serious economic loss and environmental pollution.  

3. Easy occurrence of quality problems

As the traditional color matching mechanism requires manual color matching by workers, their experience becomes quality standards. This may easily cause quality accidents such as excess color hue difference, serious metamerism, serious color change after drying, and even loss in subsequent processes. These quality problems are also key reasons for product returning by customers, and may lead to disastrous losses.

How to improve the traditional spot color matching methods with rapid, accurate and low-consumption new methods? To solve this process defects, we must optimize the spot color ink preparation process. Thus, we developed standardized and data-based Nuobang Peiseda color matching software.

Zhongshan Nuobang Color Equipment Co., Ltd., after many years of research, has developed an accurate, aimed and easily operable color matching system basing on internationally accepted color expression, the color features of domestic printing ink, the color matching functions of color spectrum data, and the like.