How does Color-Logic compare to MetalFX?
MetalFX® was a metallic color system for offset printing. MetalFX is no longer available, the company no longer in business, and the website explaining the process (www.metal-fx.com) can no longer be accessed. Like other early metallic color systems, MetalFX produced color swatchbooks and provided these to printers and designers for their clients to match. Color-Logic® is a new company developing color communication systems creating special effects for print. The Color-Logic Process Metallic Color System™ was developed to address the current and future advancements in print technology. The patent-pending Color-Logic system enables printers to produce their own color charts for their clients based on their printing standard or an international printing standard (ISO™), or using various printing specifications like GRACoL™ , G7, or SWOP. Since the printer produces the color charts, the Color-Logic system takes into account several key variables which MetalFX and other systems in the past
MetalFX® was a metallic color system for offset printing only. It used one swatch book, printed on an offset press, and could not be adapted to flexo, gravure, heatset, inkjet, digital, or screen printing. MetalFX is no longer available. The company is no longer in business. The website explaining the process (metal-fx.com) can no longer be accessed. Like other early metallic color systems, MetalFX produced and provided color swatch books to printers and designers for their clients to match. The MetalFX swatch books were last produced in 2008, which means that any in circulation today would be out of date due to pigment fading and ink discoloration. Moreover, the MetalFX system was licensed to the printer under terms and conditions stipulating that the printer was only to use MetalFX branded inks. These inks were last manufactured at the end of December 2009 (see eckart.net), which leaves MetalFX printers with a defunct system that is no longer supported, nor with any available consuma
