Prepress is a key element of product development and branding. You'll work in close partnership with your customers, creating and developing a variety of branding elements. Pantone has created the Accredited Prepress Partner program to help you better manage, develop and stage your customers' branded products.

Building a stronger supply chain
Using PantoneLIVE spectral data, prepress can access unique brand owner palettes. Then, using the PantoneLIVE suite of solutions, operators can administer and implement their customers' brand colors. This centralized approach means all users on all shifts, at all locations can access the right and relevant colors for the product. A centrally stored brand palette also makes communicating color faster and more effective with third-party design and print production suppliers.

The results

• Color variations below a deltaE of 2.
• Color-accurate proofs that can be achieved consistently on press.
• Faster proof cycles with less waste.
• Proof prints can be achieved with fewer iterations.
• Lower expenses by reducing proof and media waste.
• Digital proofs that can replace wet ink drawdowns.
• Customer and converter all concur in advance of production, working to ensure expectations are met.

Provide a higher level of service and customer
brand integrity
What would be the impact if the services you provide were accurate and ready within the first hour? Even though sign-off occurs on a single proof, it may take several hours and iterations to achieve that proof. Everything else is time and material that is not always recovered. With PantoneLIVE, spot colors do not need constant remapping, and potential color issues are highlighted early on, eliminating late-stage surprises and setting the right expectations at the very beginning.

With privilege comes opportunity
As a PantoneLIVE Accredited Prepress Partner, you will gain access to special pricing and discounts. These discounts are used to quickly facilitate PantoneLIVE implementation and provide a quicker return on investment. PantoneLIVE accreditation can help you better facilitate color communications and create opportunities for additional revenue streams.

Create a more intimate relationship with your customers with PantoneLIVE, one that brings stability to your customers' colors and ownership of color decisions back to prepress.

PantoneLIVE SDK
As a PantoneLIVE Accredited Prepress Partner you can obtain access to the PantoneLIVE SDK, providing a direct connection to the PantoneLIVE ecosystem in order to access brand and generic PantoneLIVE colors within your own custom software solutions.