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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

29/03/2025

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 […]

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

12/01/2025

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 […]

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

21/12/2024

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 […]

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Is print quality control Russian roulette?

07/12/2024

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 […]

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

19/10/2024

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, […]

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

21/09/2024

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, […]

Best Practices

Monitors: is sRGB still standard?

03/04/2024

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 […]

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

20/12/2023

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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A crucial new job profile:
The CxC (Color eXchange Coordinator)

03/12/2023

Initially, I had planned to write an article about two issues I spotted in Black Friday publicity folders I received last week. Two issues that could have easily been prevented with a little bit […]

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ECG: brand owners want it!

14/10/2023

As I showed in the previous article, ECG printing (expanded or extended color gamut) is feasible from a technological point of view. Even more: it has lots of benefits. And guess what: most brand […]

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ECG Printing: The Perfect Storm is near

26/08/2023

When looking at packaging printing, ECG (expanded or extended gamut printing) is hot. Many people are talking about it, and the promises seem convincing: you can simulate much more brand colors with a set of […]

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The color deviation nobody is talking about…

24/06/2023

Brand owners demand lower color deviations, with myths and unproven claims being their main argument. Recently I heard that 1,5 dE00 should be the norm, which is not necessary, in my opinion. A box of […]

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How long should a visual press check take?
(a few seconds vs. as long as it takes)

17/06/2023

Earlier this year, I published an article with studies showing how long consumers interact with a package while shopping. On average, the ‘Total Fixation Duration’ was less than a second. Coca-Cola cans? One-tenth of a […]

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Not all CxF is created equal:
it comes in several flavors

27/05/2023

When talking about brand colors, and brand color reproduction, many people are looking at CxF as the way to go. It is also one of the directions Project BBCG shows for sharing brand color specifications. […]

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“Project BBCG is good, but only for tech-savvy designers” – Au contraire, my friends! Plus: opportunities for printers, prepress houses

22/04/2023

In a recent discussion on LinkedIn, someone said that Project BBCG is a good system, but only for tech-savvy designers. While I agree with the first part, I strongly disagree with the second: it’s even […]