Colour Management Services

At Oriel, we specialise in delivering high-precision Colour Management services designed to eliminate inconsistencies and ensure flawless colour reproduction across your entire product range. Leveraging cutting-edge technology, refined workflows, and decades of production expertise, we offer dependable colour control that protects and strengthens your brand identity.

Accurate Brand Colour Matching

Consistent brand colours are essential — and it’s one of our core strengths. Our Colour Management service ensures that your signature colours remain consistent from concept through to final production, no matter the material or format.

We can also match your packaging precisely to a physical product or sample. To guarantee accuracy before going to press, we can provide a colour drawdown matched to your target colour for approval. This proactive approach ensures repeatable colour reproduction within tight tolerances — a cost-effective solution that can reduce or eliminate:

• Press pass requirements

• Costly reprints

• Variations in Pantone guides

• Inconsistencies between printed colour standards

The Future of Colour Management: CxF Technology

We use CxF (Colour Exchange Format) – the global ISO standard for digital colour communication – to remove subjectivity and ensure precision across all stages of print production. With CxF data, your colours are defined digitally, enabling consistent reproduction from printer to printer, worldwide.

This digital approach allows for highly accurate ink formulation and enables printers to achieve colour tolerances of your choosing, using spectrophotometers to remove any guesswork.

What Is CxF?

CxF (Colour Exchange Format) is a robust system for digitally communicating every commercially significant aspect of colour. Here’s how it works:

• Material Information
  The base material is measured for colour and whiteness, and identified by brand — ensuring all printers use the same substrate, reducing variables from the start.

• Measurement Parameters
  CxF includes standardised spectrophotometer settings (light source, filters, etc.), ensuring every printer measures colour in exactly the same way — preventing the discrepancies often seen when using only LAB or density values.

• Target Colour Definition
  Colours are measured under controlled conditions, using LAB, Chroma, and Hue to generate spectral data. Colour tolerances are defined using Delta E (ΔE). At Oriel, we typically achieve results within 1.5 ΔE — well below the industry standard of 2 ΔE, which is barely perceptible to the human eye.

• Ink Formulation
  Using the CxF data, ink manufacturers formulate colour with tolerances as tight as 1 ΔE. If the base material changes, a new ink formulation and updated CxF data ensure consistency remains uncompromised.

The Result: Precision and Consistency

By locking in the material, measurement method, target colour, and tolerance, CxF delivers a colour system that is accurate, consistent, and repeatable — every time.

Whether you're managing a global brand or launching a single product line, Oriel’s Colour Management Services ensure your colours remain exactly as intended — across substrates, processes, and suppliers.