Feasibility study for textile color simulation with multichannel printing technology

This study has investigated how the growing technology of multichannel printing in the graphic arts could help textile industry to convey accurate colour information. In order to reduce the cost there is an increased need for printed samples that serves for colour judgment and decision in the design process. With the increased colour gamut of multichannel printing systems we are expecting to include most of the colours from textile samples. The results show that with careful control of ink limits and with bypassing the colour management limitations imposed on printing system; we are able to include more than 90% of colour textile samples into the multichannel printer gamut. We also conclude that there must be agreement between used measurement geometries and to account for differences in methodology in order to have a better match. How the texture of such materials influences colour and spectral reproduction is jet to be discovered, and this will be our aim in the future.