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Color Insider

Product Design

Creating a Color Bar for Printing

Why they're useful and five guidelines to follow when creating one!

Aug 18, 2023
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Color Control Bar

A color control bar is essentially a test strip that displays a series of color patches and grayscale printed onto a surface. Color bars are routinely used to ensure that overall appearance and color in printing is controlled, balanced, and uniform, which makes them very useful. However, it is pretty easy to make mistakes with potentia…

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