Digital Print Color Approvals for Faster Development
Extend Digital Color Approvals Beyond Solid Colors
DeSL's Digital Color Approvals helps fashion, apparel, and footwear brands streamline lab dip approvals, reducing physical sampling, improving collaboration, and accelerating color decisions. Now, DeSL has expanded those same trusted workflows to support print and strike-off approvals, bringing printed fabrics into the same centralized approval process.
Whether you're approving screen printed graphics, sublimation prints, rotary prints, or digitally printed textiles, print development often involves multiple strike-offs, supplier revisions, and lengthy approval cycles. Managing these processes through emails, spreadsheets, and physical samples slows product development, increases costs, and makes it difficult for internal teams and suppliers to stay aligned.
By extending Color Lifecycle Management (CLM) beyond solid colors, DeSL gives brands a single digital workflow for managing both lab dips and printed fabrics. The result is faster print color approval, stronger collaboration, and greater confidence that every approved print is ready for production.
Print approvals are more complex than solid colors
Approving a printed fabric requires much more than matching a single color. A print may contain multiple colors, gradients, repeat patterns, artwork placement, and registration that all need to be evaluated together.
This complexity exists across many production methods, including screen printing approvals, sublimation print approvals, and digital textile printing.
Each strike-off can introduce subtle differences in color, artwork, or alignment. Without a structured approval process, teams often rely on email chains, spreadsheets, PDFs, and physical samples to track revisions. It quickly becomes difficult to know which submission is the latest approved version, creating unnecessary delays and increasing production risk.
Extend your digital color approval process to printed fabrics
Many brands already rely on DeSL's Digital Color Approvals to manage lab dips and solid color development. With this latest enhancement, those same workflows now support print and strike-off approvals, allowing brands to manage every color approval within one connected system.
Product development teams, designers, sourcing professionals, suppliers, and print vendors all work from the same approval record. Teams can easily manage:
- Print submissions and strike-offs
- Comments and revision requests
- Approval and rejection decisions
- Version history
- Current approval status
Everyone has real-time visibility into the approval process, reducing confusion and eliminating the need to search through disconnected emails or shared folders.
Review every color side by side for better decisions
Effective print color approval requires reviewing the complete design, not just individual colors.
DeSL allows teams to evaluate every color within a print side by side while comparing multiple strike-offs throughout the approval process. Whether reviewing a screen printed graphic, a sublimated sports jersey, or a digitally printed fashion pattern, teams can quickly identify color differences, artwork revisions, and improvements between submissions.
This visual comparison process supports faster, more informed approval decisions while reducing the risk of approving an incorrect version for production.
Reduce approval time, sampling, and costly rework
Every additional strike-off adds time, expense, and complexity to product development. Physical samples must be produced, shipped, reviewed, and often returned with comments before another revision can begin.
By digitizing print approvals, brands can identify issues earlier, compare submissions against approved standards, and communicate revisions faster. This reduces unnecessary sampling rounds while keeping suppliers moving through the approval process.
The benefits extend beyond efficiency. Fewer physical samples reduce material waste, lower courier costs, and decrease carbon emissions while helping brands bring products to market sooner. Digital workflows also improve communication across global supply chains by ensuring everyone works from the same accurate information.
One workflow for every color approval
Instead of maintaining separate approval processes for lab dips and printed fabrics, brands can now manage both within DeSL Color Lifecycle Management.
Whether reviewing a solid color standard, a seasonal print, a screen printing approval, or a sublimation print approval, every submission follows the same structured workflow. This creates greater consistency across product development while simplifying collaboration between product teams, sourcing, suppliers, and print partners.
By centralizing every approval, brands create a single source of truth for color decisions throughout the development process.
Build a complete approval history with confidence
Production teams need confidence that the print entering manufacturing is the same version that was approved during development.
Every submission, comment, revision, approval, and rejection is automatically recorded, creating a complete audit trail for every print. Product development, sourcing, suppliers, and production teams can quickly review approval history without relying on emails or individual recollection.
This level of visibility improves accountability, strengthens supplier collaboration, and reduces the risk of costly production errors.
Bring every color approval into one digital workflow
With the addition of print and strike-off approvals, DeSL's Digital Color Approvals now extend beyond solid colors to support the complete color approval process.
Brands can manage lab dips, screen printing approvals, sublimation print approvals, and other textile printing methods using the same trusted CLM workflow. Instead of juggling disconnected systems and manual processes, every color approval is managed in one centralized platform.
The result is faster digital print approvals, fewer physical samples, improved supplier collaboration, and greater confidence that every print entering production matches the approved design. By bringing every color approval into a single digital workflow, DeSL helps fashion brands reduce development delays, improve quality, and accelerate time to market.
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