Under the partnership, HGS will support the PantoneLIVE ecosystem for digital colour communications as part of its print quality management solution, colourSentry.
“With a complex, global packaging supply chain, brand owners need to ensure that colour and branding guidelines remain consistent across multiple geographic locations, packaging substrates, and printing technologies,” said Jay Sperry, Graphics Commercialization Director, HGS. “Through our partnership with X-Rite Pantone, we are now able to offer all of our colorSentry customers a secure way to access the latest Pantone colour Standards that are being utilised by packaging designers. This links the packaging supply chain to the creative intent of brand owners and ensures that colour is managed to deliver predictable, reliable, and consistent print quality.”
colourSentry is a web-based enterprise print and colour quality management solution that benchmarks, characterises, calibrates, and verifies a brand’s print supply chain across all print methods and substrates. The colourSentry system incorporates a custom software and certified hardware suite, expert optimization, calibration, and centralised standards with live reporting on key process indicators for graphic reproduction and print quality. The system proactively provides data in real-time for compliance throughout the contracted print supply network, with demonstrated integration across brand management, design operations, print operations, and supply chain teams.
“More than one thousand colourSentry customers now have access to a PantoneLIVE license and can begin incorporating digital Pantone standards in their packaging workflows,” said Iain Pike, Product Portfolio Manager, X-Rite Pantone. “From design, artwork creation, proofing, production, to quality control, PantoneLIVE guarantees that each person in the workflow is using the correct Pantone reference and can achieve the desired colour based on substrate and printing process. We are excited to extend the benefits of PantoneLIVE to HGS customers to improve overall packaging processes.”
