Dedicated Ink Room at 3C Packaging

Independent and privately owned 3C Packaging (formerly Colonial Carton Company) has added a dedicated ink room to its facility in Clayton, NC.  The room also houses the company’s new spectrophotometer, a unique system that provides greater control of the color matching process.
 
Spectrophotometry is a process in which inks are accurately and repeatedly mixed to achieve a match within one Delta E, a tolerance barely perceptible to the human eye. This ensures consistency of color from batch to batch and run to run, thereby reducing the variability of the printing process and simplifying the final stages of client approval.

This machine will be used to produce 3C’s proprietary ‘Color by Numbers’ concept – the company’s unique approach to the color management process.
 
According to Joe Elphick, President and CEO of 3C: ‘Installing this system positions 3C as a leader in the science of color management for the benefit of our customers.  This technology, combined with our ‘Color by the Numbers’ approach in the pressroom, enables us to reduce some of the cost factors normally found in the color approval process and reduce or eliminate the need for color inspection.’