Interview | Datacolor×Xinliang Plastics: Digital Color Management to Empower Masterbatch Color Matching and R&D Processes

The Dilemma of Traditional Color Matching: Multiple Factors Affect Color Consistency

Xinliang Plastic focuses on the color matching and research and development of color masterbatches for color cosmetics, daily chemicals, food and medical packaging. In its daily color matching process, it often faces multiple challenges:

Homochromatic phenomenon: the color presents differences under different light sources, affecting the consistency of product appearance.
Material color differences: pigments and dyes behave differently on different substrates, increasing the complexity of formula design.
Human operation differences: the R&D team’s understanding of the formula and operation techniques varied, leading to difficulties in color standardization.

In addition, how to control costs and efficiently manage color databases while complying with safety regulations has been a long-standing concern for companies.

Digital solutions: precise color control and process optimization

To cope with these challenges, Xinliang Plastics introduced Datacolor’s DC750 colorimeter and Colibri color matching software to achieve a systematic upgrade of color management.

Dramatic improvement in color consistency: Colibri software accurately handles the “same color, different spectrum” problem, providing reasonable formulation recommendations in different light source environments.
Standardization of R&D process: The system reduces human intervention and solves the problem of color difference caused by the difference in personnel operation.
Improvement of R&D efficiency: Through intelligent matching of the system, the R&D cycle of new product colors is significantly shortened.

The Colibri Software Advantage: Excellence in Complex Scenarios

Colibri color matching software’s powerful calculation and control capabilities in dealing with complex colors and special materials with excellent performance, can accurately calculate the ratio of pigments, dyes in different materials, in the actual application of Xinliang Plastics show a variety of advantages.

Xinliang Plastic once received a multi-material matching makeup packaging order, the color requirement is very high and involves different substrates. In the traditional way, the adjustment was difficult and the period was long. However, through the Colibri system, Xinliang Plastics was able to quickly obtain accurate formulas for different materials, and the first sampling was close to the standard color, and two fine-tuning times were confirmed by the customer, which shortened the whole development cycle by nearly one-third.

Combined benefits: multiple improvements in quality, efficiency and costs

From the perspective of input and output, Datacolor system has brought considerable comprehensive benefits to Xinliang Plastic:

Product stability has been significantly improved and yield rate increased by about 15%.
R&D efficiency is improved by about 20%, and new colors are produced faster.
The number of color matching and retouching is reduced by about 30%, and labor and material costs are significantly reduced.
The unified color database enables efficient data sharing and collaboration.

Datacolor Partners with Xinliang Plastics: A Trustworthy Long-Term Partner

In addition to the products themselves, Datacolor’s technical support services have also left a deep impression on Xinliang Plastic.
From the initial equipment selection and database construction to the later software upgrade and system optimization, Datacolor provides professional support for the whole process.
“During a weekend rush to produce an important sample, Xinliang Plastics encountered a software operation problem, Datacolor’s engineers quickly accessed remotely, troubleshooting and solving the problem in less than half an hour, ensuring the smooth progress of the order.” said Wang Yichao, General Manager of Xinliang Plastic.
This kind of efficient and responsible service makes Xinliang Plastic truly feel that Datacolor is a trustworthy long-term partner.