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The Color Matching Cabinet with 5 & 7 lights is an essential tool for industries that require accurate color assessment, such as textiles, printing, packaging, and automotive. This cabinet provides standardized lighting conditions to evaluate and compare colors under different light sources, ensuring consistency in color quality and appearance.

[letragraphix]

From Concept to Shelf: The Journey of Packaging Label Printing

Packaging label printing is a crucial aspect of the packaging industry, playing a pivotal role in conveying vital information, ensuring brand recognition, and enticing consumers to make a purchase. This article explores the fascinating journey of packaging label printing, from the initial concept to the moment a product sits proudly on the store shelf.

Understanding the Significance of Packaging Label Printing

1. The First Point of Contact

Packaging labels are often the first point of contact between a consumer and a product. They provide essential information about the product, its ingredients, usage instructions, and branding. An attractive and informative label can create a positive impression and influence purchasing decisions.

Example: Consider a bottle of premium olive oil. The elegant label not only displays the product's quality but also provides details about its origin, flavor notes, and usage recommendations, all of which influence the consumer's decision.

2. Branding and Identity

Packaging labels are a powerful tool for establishing and reinforcing a brand's identity. The design, colors, typography, and overall aesthetics of a label are carefully chosen to align with the brand's image and values. Consistency in labeling across a product line helps build brand recognition.

Transparent Label Manufacturer: Brands looking for a modern, sleek, and minimalistic label design often collaborate with a Transparent Label Manufacturer. These labels provide a clear and clean look, allowing the product to be the focal point.

The Process of Packaging Label Printing

The journey of packaging label printing involves several intricate steps, each contributing to the creation of a label that communicates effectively and appeals to the target audience.

1. Design and Conceptualization

The process begins with the design and conceptualization phase. Designers and brand owners work together to create a label that encapsulates the product's essence. This includes choosing the right colors, fonts, imagery, and layout. The label must be visually appealing while conveying essential information clearly.

2. Material Selection

Once the design is finalized, the next step is material selection. The choice of label material is essential, as it affects the label's appearance and durability. Options include paper, plastic, or even special materials like foil for a premium look. The choice also depends on the product's environment and usage conditions.

3. Printing Techniques

Packaging label printing involves several printing techniques, with the most common ones being:

Offset Printing: Ideal for high-quality images and colors, often used for intricate label designs.

Flexographic Printing: Suitable for large production runs and labels with simple designs.

Digital Printing: Offers flexibility, allowing for on-demand printing and variable data.

The selection of the printing technique depends on the label's design, quantity, and budget considerations.

Example: A boutique chocolate manufacturer may opt for offset printing to showcase the intricate details of their label design, which features hand-painted chocolate pieces.

4. Color Management

Accurate color management is crucial to ensure consistency across different label printing runs. Color profiles are established to ensure that the label's colors match the approved design, whether it's a vibrant red for a soft drink or a muted pastel for a skincare product.

5. Die-Cutting and Finishing

After the labels are printed, the next step is die-cutting. This process shapes the label into its final form, whether it's a simple rectangle or a custom shape that complements the product's packaging. Labels may also undergo additional finishing processes such as embossing, laminating, or varnishing for added visual and tactile appeal.

6. Quality Control

Quality control is a critical part of the process. Labels are inspected for color accuracy, consistency, and defects. This step ensures that labels meet the highest standards of quality and aesthetics.

7. Application to Packaging

Once the labels are approved and quality-checked, they are applied to the product's packaging. This can be done manually for small batches or automatically for large production runs.

Example: A local artisan jam maker may apply labels to each jar of jam by hand, emphasizing the handmade and personal touch of their products.

The Importance of Compliance and Information

In addition to aesthetics and branding, packaging label printing must comply with various regulations and provide essential product information. This includes:

Ingredients: Clearly listing all ingredients used in the product, particularly important for allergen information.

Nutrition Facts: Providing accurate nutrition information, including calories, fats, proteins, and more.

Barcodes: Adding barcodes for inventory and sales tracking.

Safety Warnings: Including safety warnings, usage instructions, and any relevant legal information.

Sustainability and Environmental Considerations

In recent years, there has been a growing emphasis on sustainable packaging label printing. Many brands are opting for eco-friendly label materials, inks, and printing processes. This shift aligns with the broader goal of reducing the environmental footprint of the packaging industry.

Conclusion

The journey of packaging label printing is a meticulously planned process that combines aesthetics, information, and compliance. From concept to shelf, packaging labels serve as the bridge between brands and consumers. They convey a product's identity, entice potential buyers, and provide essential information. As the packaging industry continues to evolve, so too does the art and science of label printing, adapting to changing consumer preferences, environmental considerations, and the ever-increasing demand for creative and informative labeling. Credits : https://letragraphix.blogspot.com/2023/10/Packaging%20Label%20Printing.html

[canmom]

Have you seen some of the new HDR stuff on KDE plasma 6? Still early days, but very exciting!

https://zamundaaa.github.io/wayland/2023/12/18/update-on-hdr-and-colormanagement-in-plasma.html

oh that is interesting! sounds very promising.

“SDR Color Intensity” is inspired by the color slider on the Steam Deck. For sRGB applications it scales the color gamut up to (at 100%) rec.2020, or more simply put, it makes the colors of non-HDR apps more intense, to counteract the bad gamut mapping many HDR displays do and make colors of SDR apps look more like when HDR is disabled

I guess this goes some way to answering why colour accuracy for SDR content was so dodge when I turned on HDR on windows (which lacks such a slider, just a brightness slider). "the bad gamut mapping many HDR displays do" is big oof but also explains a lot. the mathematics for colour space transformation is pretty well-defined, so if hardware is implementing them incorrectly, that's really frustrating. older screens are working with standards that predate the idea of colour management, but now we're bringing in all these new display signalling standards (PQ and all that), it seems like a golden opportunity to do things properly this time... so of course we don't lmao.

the colorimeter I got has an option for high brightness/HDR screens, but I haven't really tested it yet. 'measure your screen colorimetrically and compensate in software' works decently well in SDR land, but I'm not sure what happens in HDR. I haven't played any HDR-enabled games since I got this colour accuracy bug, so I haven't had cause to try and figure out the ins and outs of it yet.

it seems like KDE intend to be a lot less black-box about it than Microsoft, which is very welcome.

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An update on HDR and color management in KWin

https://zamundaaa.github.io/wayland/2023/12/18/update-on-hdr-and-colormanagement-in-plasma.html

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🎨 Take advantages of OpenColorIO for Maya In the entertainment industry, there are a lot of ways of encoding color digitally known as color spaces. Color management software is responsible for accurately translating between these many different digital representations of a given color appearance. OpenColorIO is an open-source software component, widely used in visual effects and animation, that provides color management technology with four main capabilities: - A configuration file, or config file, for documenting the color pipeline that will be used on a specific show - A loose set of user interface conventions for accessing color management from within applications - The ability to read many of the look-up table (or "LUT") formats used in the industry - Pixel conversion engines for both the CPU and GPU Autodesk collaborated on a proposal for a new version of OpenColorIO with Sony Pictures Imageworks, which has benefited greatly from their experience developing color-related features for Maya. #autodeskmaya #maya3d #opencolorIO #colormanagement #rendering3d #3scloud #renderfarm #renderingservice https://www.instagram.com/p/CHNT4jVpLep/?igshid=1u9nwa1m7rpzu

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@brockhartwell I’m happy today I have completed the Blackmagic Design Davinci Resolve 15: Fusion Certified Training. With experience of using the software since 2013 with purchasing their first Pocket Cinema Camera, and experience from college from using other previous editing software packages before. I’ve seen DaVinci go from implementing and finalizing the editing structure, then adding fusion and fairlight into the software. . . I’ve always wanted the privilege to teach others the features of DaVinci Resolve appropriately and showcase how it’s an excelling Post Production Software. . . Thanks to the amazing Instructor Dion Scoppettuolo at Blackmagic Design for help roughing out the ends I didn’t know about fusion and how I can take advantage out of the most of Fusion inside of DaVinci Resolve. . . I was surprised to see it’s introduction last year at NAB being introduced inside of DaVinci Resolve 15. . . I look forward to teaching others the fundamentals of #davinciresolve #fusion @blackmagicnewsofficial @blackmagicdesign_news @blackmagiccollective @blackmagicdesign_family #davinciresolve15 #davinciresolve16 #davinciresolvecertifiedtrainer #fusioncertifiedtrainer #postproduction #color #colorgrading #fairlight #fusion #blackmagicdesign #chromakey #vfx #editor #editorial #editing #colormanagement #blackmagicpocketcinemacamera #compositing #motiongraphics #animation #filmmaker #producer #visualeffects #film #director #videoproduction #artist #filmproduction (at Blackmagic Design) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1Xf9tDjln9/?igshid=looujvhx0zcr

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New website

Barbieri North America Inc. launches a new website to share more information about their products and services to the North American market.

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Jagson Colorchem, based in Ahmedabad, is a leading manufacturer and global supplier of dyes, pigments, food colors, and auxiliaries.

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