中文Siegwerk, a global provider of printing inks and coatings for packaging and labels, has launched Colorwerk FastMatch Cloud, a cloud-based color management solution developed with color science specialist X-Rite Pantone. The digital tool combines ink formulation, color correction, and quality control in one integrated system, helping printers and converters hit fast, accurate, and consistent color across multiple presses, sites, and production processes.
FastMatch Cloud is part of Siegwerk’s global Colorwerk color management program. It enables centralized color data management and standardized ink recipes through a secure cloud database accessible from any web browser. It supports ink formulations based on multiple applications, customer-specific tolerances, and selected colorant assortments, enabling consistent reproduction throughout the packaging value chain. Integration with X-Rite Pantone solutions, including PantoneLIVE, keeps digital color libraries and industry standards current.
“With FastMatch Cloud, we transform how color data is managed in packaging printing,” said Kiran Deshpande, global senior expert color management at Siegwerk. “By combining Siegwerk’s formulation expertise with X-Rite Pantone’s color science and cloud technology, we enable customers to work with reliable, standardized color data anytime and anywhere.” A notable capability is reusing press-returned ink in new matches or batches, which reduces aged ink inventory, cost, and space requirements.
Powered by X-Rite Pantone technology, FastMatch Cloud delivers formula calculations in under 20 seconds, a 50% speed increase over previous systems. Combined with integrated QC tools, that helps converters raise their initial color match rate, cutting ink consumption, minimizing waste, and reducing press downtime. “Today, packaging printers need scalable, secure and connected color solutions,” said Nick Meyer, business unit director, print and packaging at X-Rite Pantone. “FastMatch Cloud delivers the flexibility of cloud computing combined with trusted color intelligence.”
Early users report clear operational gains. “Since transitioning to FastMatch Cloud, we have seen big improvements, and we love it,” said Kevin Wemple, plant manager at CL&D, during the Colorwerk Conference 2025. “Out of seven or eight ink suppliers, only Siegwerk understood our needs. When it comes to color matching solutions, Siegwerk is far ahead of others in the industry.” Feedback like that points to the practical payoff of moving color expertise into a connected, cloud-hosted workflow.
Siegwerk will demonstrate FastMatch Cloud at LOUPE Americas in Chicago from September 15 to 17, 2026, at stand 1024. The launch reflects a broader industry move toward centralized, software-defined color management, where recipe data, standards, and QC live in one place rather than scattered across local installs. For global brands and their converter networks, that consistency is becoming a baseline requirement, not a differentiator.
By pairing formulation science with cloud delivery and Pantone’s standards, Siegwerk and X-Rite Pantone are making precise color less dependent on individual operator skill and more on trusted, shared data. That is exactly the kind of infrastructure modern packaging production needs as supply chains spread across more sites and regions.
Source: THE PACKMAN (thepackman.in)
