Danaher announced it has entered into a definitive merger agreement with X-Rite under which Danaher will acquire X-Rite for $5.55 per share in cash, or approximately $625 million. X-Rite will operate as a standalone company within Danaher’s Product Identification group.
Pantone LLC and the Academy of Art University announced a partnership and scholarship in support of “Color in Action,” a unique project designed to explore the positive influence of color on social change. Eight student teams were formed to explore pressing social issues including education, tolerance and the environment.
PantoneLIVE is a cloud-based color service that provides instant access to essential brand color standards. PantoneLIVE is connected to a large portfolio of software, containing real-world color data for hundreds of thousands of colors, and is supported by the latest color measurement technology.
X-Rite Inc. and Pantone will show i1Profiler, X-Rite’s next generation color profiling solution, for the first time in North America at this year’s GRAPH EXPO trade show, along with the full portfolio of i1 Professional Color Management Solutions.
During GRAPH EXPO, X-Rite/Pantone, booth 448, will be showcase their full range of standards-compliant color management solutions for profiling and calibrating scanners, monitors, printers and presses; press quality control tools for proofs, plates and prints; ink formulation tools; dedicated flexography and packaging solutions; and process control and color certification for the digital supply chain.
Thirty nationally-recognized companies are sponsoring the Printing Industries Alliance’s upcoming 2010 Franklin Event to date. More than 500 senior executives from the printing, advertising, publishing and graphic sectors are expected to attend the popular annual gala scheduled for Wednesday, September 29.
X-Rite will demonstrate its next generation color profiling solution featuring i1Profiler, the company’s brand new color profiling software and PANTONE Link, a new color swatch bridging software.
Pantone went back to the system everyone knows and loves and rather than radically changing it, they simply improved it.
The integration of their two solutions will be demonstrated for the first time at Ipex (NEC Birmingham UK, May 18 – 25, 2010), on Digital Information’s stand 11-C239.
Enhancements include the chromatic arrangement of colors for more intuitive selection, an expanded palette of spot colors, the addition of new premium metallics and a broader range of neons.
