How High-Production Print Shops Match Custom Pantone Colors

Every shirt substrate reacts differently. Every cotton-poly blend absorbs ink uniquely, and squeegee sharpness changes how much ink deposits through your mesh. When high-production print shops print for brands, close enough never cuts it. Brands demand exact match Pantone color accuracy, and if your cured print does not match the chip in their book, the job gets rejected. In this video, Avient Ink Wizard John Magee and Michael Fader of Pacific Sportswear walk through the process of precision ink mixing, custom base modifications, and specialty effect formulations from the Screen Fling summer workshop. What You Will Learn in This Video: Why standard Pantone formulas shift across different bases, shirt blends, and squeegee durometers How to mix, modify, and archive over 200 custom user formulas in Avient IMS 3.0 Labeling ink buckets and archiving recipes digitally to eliminate prepress searching on re-orders Light box validation testing under natural sunlight, UV light, and store lighting to prevent metamerism Using IMS 3.0 calculators to estimate job ink volume and re-formulate overstocked dead inventory Custom Pantone color matching for specialty inks including puff, suede, high density, shimmer, and solar inks Production efficiency with automated air dispensers for high-volume plastisol drums Darkening color formulations slightly to compensate for wet-on-wet ink pick-up during automated runs Equipment, Supplies, and Software Featured: Ink Mixing Systems: Avient Wilflex Epic and IMS 3.0 Color Mixing Systems Specialty Inks and Additives: Avient Infinite FX NuPuff, HD Clear, Soft Hand Clear, Finesse Base, and Shimmer Inks Mixing Tools: RevolvInk Mixer for Quarts and Gallons Automated Equipment: Air-Powered Ink Dispensers and 16-Color Automatic Presses Featured Product Links: Mixing and Pantone Inks https://www.screenprinting.com/collections/mixing-and-pantone-inks?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=pantonecolormixing Avient Specialty In