X-Rite Pantone, a global authority in color standards and color science, has announced Spectura, its next-generation portable sphere spectrophotometer platform designed to connect trusted color measurement with modern quality workflows.
Combining advanced measurement performance, secure cloud connectivity, and an expandable application framework, Spectura helps manufacturers reduce color errors, accelerate decisions, and maintain consistency from the laboratory to the production floor.
Manufacturers increasingly manage color across distributed sites, supplier networks, and diverse materials while facing tighter tolerances and shorter approval cycles. Yet many production measurements still require manual data transfers before review, limiting visibility and slowing corrective action.
“Color quality can no longer be managed one instrument, facility, or supplier at a time,” said Ben Spiegel, director of Product Management, X-Rite Pantone. “As manufacturing becomes more distributed, organizations need connected workflows that preserve the integrity of color data across every location where decisions are made. Spectura creates that foundation, helping teams reduce variability, respond faster, and improve consistency throughout the color program.”
Connected color quality
Spectura brings laboratory-level measurement performance to a durable, portable platform. This new architecture integrates advanced optics, high-definition camera targeting, temperature-aware measurement, purpose-built accessories, secure cloud connectivity, NetProfiler integration, and future application capabilities within a single platform. Strong inter-instrument agreement with established X-Rite handheld and benchtop systems helps maintain alignment between established color standards and production results to reduce measurement variation and create a foundation for connected color quality management.
Secure cloud connectivity powered by X-Rite Color iQC brings color and instrument performance data directly into digital quality workflows, reducing manual transfers. Quality managers can review production results in real time, identify issues earlier, reduce rework, and collaborate across locations and suppliers using a shared source of trusted color data.
A platform designed to evolve
Spectura unites instrument hardware, cloud services, NetProfiler, and modular applications to help manufacturers modernize color quality workflows while building on established standards and practices.
Three models address distinct quality needs – Spectura S60 for portable color comparison.
Spectura S62 for everyday quality control; and Spectura S64 for tighter tolerances and agreement with Ci7800 benchtop spectrophotometers.
“The future of color quality control is defined by connected systems that make trusted data available wherever decisions are made,” said Spiegel. “Spectura helps manufacturers strengthen color quality today while preparing for evolving regulatory requirements, including CRA compliance.”
X-Rite Pantone will showcase the Spectura Series at Fakuma 2026, 12–16 October in Friedrichshafen, Germany, in Hall B1, Stand 1307. Attendees can see a live demonstration on Tuesday, October 13.
A global launch event will follow on 21 October 2026, featuring a closer look at how Spectura connects color measurement and quality workflows across the enterprise.
Founded in 1958, X-Rite Pantone is a global leader in the science and technology of color and appearance. Together with its Pantone business, X-Rite Pantone employs more than 800 people in 11 countries.
X-Rite Pantone offers a full range of solutions used by manufacturers, retailers, printers, and graphic design houses to achieve precise management and communication of color and appearance throughout their processes. Its products and services are recognized standards in the printing, packaging, graphic design, automotive, paints, plastics, and textiles.
