X-Rite names Toyo Ink as first PantoneLIVE accredited ink manufacturer in Japan

Toyo Ink offers a range of printing inks for packaging and commercial printing, and is described as an expert organization in spot color formulation. Toyo Ink will use PantoneLIVE internally to help match Pantone colors, including options for a variety of substrates and printing processes.

Toyo Ink becomes part of a select group of international partners and is the first PantoneLIVE accredited ink manufacturer in Japan.

‘We are extremely proud to become an accredited ink manufacturer partner for PantoneLIVE,’ said Takashi Yamauchi, general manager of the planning department within the Corporate Planning division of Toyo Ink. ‘PantoneLIVE revolutionizes the way color is communicated and ensures accurate color in printing across multiple geographic locations and printing partners. Using PantoneLIVE our customers worldwide will be able to speed print production times and improve overall workflow efficiencies.’

X-Rite said the development enables Japanese-based brand owners and packaging converters to more easily use the PantoneLIVE ecosystem for digital color communications to accurately define, develop and share precise spectral definitions for brand color palettes based on specific substrates, print processes, inks and application methods.

Fumiteru Minami, general manager for Japan and Korea at X-Rite Pantone, said: ‘We have enjoyed a longstanding business relationship with Toyo Ink and are excited to now have Toyo Ink as an accredited partner for PantoneLIVE. Toyo Ink will offer Japanese brand owners PantoneLIVE solutions to help communicate color across the entire packaging supply chain. This broadens PantoneLIVE’s presence in the growing Asian marketplace and provides our customers the assurance needed that the inks they are using meet brand owner standards regardless of the substrate or printing technology used.’