Ceramic producers color matching (1 Viewer)

[MeridianFC]

Does anyone know if the available ceramic producers (Tina, Sunfly, and BR Pro) can color match more or less exactly. Or at least very, very close? That is if I have a specific Pantone color they could get within a few degrees of it?

 

[CraigT78]

Good luck - my previous experience has been no, but get samples.

I have add-on orders from the same printer using the same art files that are no where near very, very close.

 

[Santa123]

Does anyone know if the available ceramic producers (Tina, Sunfly, and BR Pro) can color match more or less exactly. Or at least very, very close? That is if I have a specific Pantone color they could get within a few degrees of it?

Do you have a physical object which is in pantone? You could send it to BrPro and ask if they can print a couple of chips and try to match it.

 

[MeridianFC]

Good luck - my previous experience has been no, but get samples.

I have add-on orders from the same printer using the same art files that are no where near very, very close.

Which producer?

 

[MeridianFC]

Do you have a physical object which is in pantone? You could send it to BrPro and ask if they can print a couple of chips and try to match it.

No, this would be an art file

 

[Colquhoun]

And the issue is not just the printer that’s producing them. Pantone is a completely different system of printing compared to the 4-color or 6-color used in ceramic chips.
Pantone inks are actual mixed colors, similar to a car paint is mixed to the final desired color, and applied at 100%.
4-color and 6-color process use a series of very small dots that “mix” at a distance by your eyes.
There are many colors that simulate Pantone colors, but there’s plenty that do not. Blues are notoriously difficult to get bright in 4-color process. Pantone metallics and dayglo are also impossible to recreate.

 

[Venturalvn]

Pantone metallics and dayglo are also impossible to recreate.

This should be a site resource for ceramics lol. Dayglow is simply never going to happen.

 

[CraigT78]

Which producer?

GOCC and ChipCo