Colors are passion, emotions and personality. At Siegwerk, inks and coatings are our specialty and we use color to bring the packaging and products of our customers to life.
Colorwerk Fastmatch Cloud
Services
A cutting-edge cloud based color management system
What's the current situation?
Current solutions for ink formulation and color QC (quality control) are based on old technologies with rigid and isolated databases. Some of them have IT security issues due to a lack of new features and technologies in line with the current industry advancements.
How can Colorwerk FastMatch Cloud (powered by X-Rite) help?
Colorwerk FastMatch Cloud is a cutting-edge cloud-based color management system that provides accurate ink formulation with an integrated database for color matching and color QC. It has a highly secure and always updated system with the latest security architecture. It offers intelligent formulation & quality control running on multi-threaded true cloud computing. It is a part of Siegwerk’s global color management program called COLORWERK.
Key benefits for your organization
- Helps to standardize colors and ink recipes, and store them in a cloud database
- A small IT footprint, reducing local IT burden
- Offers shorter startup and easier support with minimal local install:
- No need to install the main software – accessed directly through web browser;
- Only a small app needs to be installed for connecting spectrophotometer to the cloud
- Improves ink formula calculation speed (compared to existing system) by approximately 50%
- Helps to reduce color-matching time on press and reduce waste – by increasing “first-time right” color matches (quantify through case-study with customer)
- Reduces press downtime and ink inventories (quantify through case-study with customer)
- Scalable solution – can grow with your business; stable and expandable back-end
Key benefits for users
- Colorwerk Fastmatch Cloud is accessible 24/7 across multiple locations through all modern web browsers.
- Faster system response and measurements – color matching calculations in less than 20 seconds
- Easy to get on-board – onboarding of new users in less time
- Easy to use – intuitive interface with integrated formulation and QC, no need to switch applications to validate formulas
- Easier to maintain – better user and data administration, users only see what they need
- Powerful searching tools – search for multiple factors at a time using tags & property fields
- Fully integrated with PantoneLIVE – digital color libraries are always updated
- Comprehensive training available from Siegwerk
For more information, contact colorwerk(at)siegwerk.com or download out newest flyer on the topic here.
