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The Impact of Color on Brand Recognition:
Re-evaluating the 80% Claim
A guest post, by Google Gemini Deep Research AI

04/05/2025
Insights4print.ceo is my personal blog. But for once, I had to accept a guest article… Earlier this week, I read a newspaper article about the ‘deep research’ options that several AI tools now offer. And […]
Strategic Insights

And no one called it a brand’s worst nightmare…
(11 dE00 between adjacent packages)

04/05/2025
I love LinkedIn. It’s a place to keep in contact with old friends and meet new friends. It’s a place where much technological, business, and scientific information is shared. And it’s a great place to […]
Strategic Insights

Is inline print quality control: a blessing?
Or is it a curse…

04/05/2025
When I first posted the measurements from my previous post on LinkedIn, I pointed out the fact that brand colors are only measured in the control strip. Which doesn’t give any guarantee that the rest […]
Strategic Insights

Is print quality control Russian roulette?

04/05/2025
There are certainly people who are inclined to say that I need to get a life: as a kind of distraction, I recently put my spectrophotometer on different spots of one single package. Who would […]
Strategic Insights

The biggest print quality experiment ever?
Brand Colors IRL: the Oreo case

25/10/2025
It’s probably – or even better: certainly – not intentional, but Oreo is running the most extensive real-life study on print quality. Why, you might ask. Well: they changed their logo, including the logo color, […]
Strategic Insights

The truth about the Heinz ‘Label of Truth’

24/10/2024
The ‘Label of Truth’ from Heinz and Pantone is going around on LinkedIn again. With raving reviews. Everybody loves it! Genius! Except that it’s seriously flawed and, therefore, a big fail. Pantone should have known […]
Strategic Insights

The wisdom of the crowd has spoken!
The 2dE00 myth busted

07/07/2025
While walking through the aisles in a supermarket recently, I noticed these nice Bahlsen packages, four different types of products/designs nicely aligned in a row. And I wondered how close the Bahlsen blue would be, […]
Strategic Insights

Color games you should take seriously
Maybe even integrate into your print operations

21/10/2024
In the past few weeks, I’ve seen several ‘color games’ on LinkedIn. Although they are intended as a game, as fun, you might want to take a serious look at these. And dear printers, you […]
Strategic Insights

Landa Nano: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
And The Alternative

03/07/2025
Last Saturday, I visited drupa. And on my list was, of course, getting samples from Landa. Plus, a bunch of other digital printing presses, including one of the other B1 digital printing presses: the Koenig […]
Strategic Insights

The future of print quality exchange:
PRX/PQX vs XJDF

25/05/2024
You may have noticed that I’m not a big fan of in-person press checks. It’s more about psychology and power games than getting that precious color right. And it’s a waste of resources, both in […]
Best Practices

Monitors: is sRGB still standard?

26/05/2024
Last year, I got a new monitor at work, a 4K monitor, nice! My regular job (the one that pays the bills) is not in the printing industry, so ‘color’ is not at the top […]
Strategic Insights

Should we ditch Lab colors and fall in love with LCh?

26/05/2024
For as long as I can remember, the primary unambiguous, device-independent way to describe, define colors is in Lab (CIELAB, L*a*b*). But even after so many decades, I still struggle to ‘feel’ the a- and […]
Strategic Insights

New document setup: we need a new, different approach

26/05/2024
Earlier this week, I posted on LinkedIn why, according to me, designers might not be familiar with color spaces and document profiles. It generated a lot of discussion… Going from “designers should not be bothered […]
Best Practices

Move over PDF/X-1a
Stop using a 20-year-old standard!

26/05/2024
It was a surprise when I read the recent message from the GWG: ‘Stop using a 20-year-old standard’! My first reaction was: what??? The GWG promotes standards! But then I noticed the ‘20’, and it […]
Best Practices

Sharing your brand color guide publicly:
worst or best practice?

21/12/2023
Brands are proud of their brand logo and their brand colors. They spend a lot of time and money to get that perfect logo. And a lot of time is spent on creating a brand […]

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