Case Studies
Measurable color management results for print and packaging.
Alder Color Solutions helps printers and brands bring color under control through press calibration, cloud-based conformance, ICC profiling and ink optimization. These are real engagements, with the numbers that came out of them.
Selected engagements
Cutting ink use 43% with PrintFactory
A wide-format shop suspected its RIP was wasting ink on every job, but wanted proof on its own equipment before switching.
A live demo on their own flatbed built 46 media profiles in two days and cut ink laydown 43% while holding color.
Parrott Printing, Knoxville, TN
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Home décor · Wide-format 70+ printers
Color management from camera to press
Challenge1,000+ designs printed in house, with color corrected by hand, downstream, on every job.
ResultCameras profiled, displays validated, soft proofs on production profiles: no more chasing color.
Global home décor brand, name withheld
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Brand owner · Packaging 13 colors / week
Color approvals without the press check
ChallengeSigning off color with print suppliers in three countries was slow and travel-dependent.
ResultReal-time, on-press conformance: 13 spot colors approved in a single week.
Global consumer brand, name withheld
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Packaging · Commercial print 4 platforms
Consistent color across every press
ChallengeProofing, prototyping and two offset presses each drifted to their own color.
ResultAll four platforms brought into G7 conformance in just two on-site visits.
Absolute Packaging, Anaheim, CA
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Commercial offset · Process control 10-sec scans
Retiring the densitometer
ChallengeTwo offset presses ran make-ready on a decades-old handheld densitometer, blind to conformance.
ResultA full 40″ bar scanned in ten seconds: color in half the time, with half the ink and paper.
Custom Printing, Oxnard, CA
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