Engineered textile colour standards

Abstract

The generation of colour palettes and the production of 'engineered standards' are now mature technologies and are able to shorten significantly the colour selection and manufacturing process, giving improvements in colour quality control and cost reductions. These advances would not have been possible without the development of optimised colour-difference equations, improvements in laboratory dyeing techniques and computer colour matching together with the availability of digital communication. © 2007 The Author. Journal compilation © 2007 Society of Dyers and Colourists.