Shade guide supplier in Bangladesh

Send us the colour codes and the edition your buyer works from. As a shade guide supplier in Bangladesh, Roptan sources the matching colour books and swatch cards, checks edition and year, and delivers them to your lab or office.

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Buying shade guides in Bangladesh

A shade guide is a colour book, fan or set of swatch cards that fixes each shade by a code, so a buyer abroad and a mill here mean the same colour. The buyer sends a code and the mill dyes lab dips to it; one trade guide says a rejected set wastes at least a week. Garments were 80.62 percent of exports in FY2025-26 (BGMEA), and USDA counted 342 dyeing, printing and finishing facilities in April 2026.

The common failure is a near miss: the right code in the wrong edition, or an older release than the buyer's. A shade guide supplier in Bangladesh has to match the book, not just the code. Roptan sources from verified sellers, checks edition, range and year against your brief, and delivers. You deal with Roptan only.

Kinds of shade guide

Cotton editions

Dyed cotton swatches, with small nylon and polyester ranges, meant mainly for textiles, apparel and soft goods. Choose them when your product is fabric and the buyer's code refers to the cotton edition.

Paper editions

Printed colour chips meant for hard goods such as cosmetics, footwear, accessories and paint. Choose them for hard accessories, or when the buyer's code is a paper code; one code can exist in both.

Swatch cards

Single shades on double-layered fabric cards, dyed for fastness and colour constancy, one distributor says, in cotton, nylon and polyester. Choose them as working standards for the shades you use often.

Guides, planners and libraries

Cotton editions come as guides and planners, a full swatch library and a chip set, with paper guide sets beside them, some sold with an expansion pack. Choose by who uses the book, and where.

Other colour systems

Other colour systems publish their own books, and some, such as a hue, value and chroma system, are built on colour models rather than pigment mixtures. A Dhaka marketplace lists books from a further system. Buy only the system your buyer's brief names.

How to brief a shade guide supplier in Bangladesh

Colour system: The one your buyer's brief names. Systems are built differently, some on colour models rather than pigment mixtures, so never accept a substitute.
Cotton or paper: Say which edition the code refers to. Fabric editions serve soft goods and paper editions hard goods, and one code can exist in both.
Release year: Colour can vary between editions, for example when the paper stock of a printed guide changes. State the release your buyer holds.
Fibre range: Cotton, or the nylon and polyester ranges sold beside it, to suit the fibre you dye. A nylon brights book is listed in Dhaka.
Format and copies: Guide, planner, full swatch library, chip set or single cards, and how many copies your teams need.
The form of the standard: A buyer may send a physical swatch, a book code or instrument reflectance data. Record which one you received, and match to it.

Standards for judging against a shade guide

No standard for the books: No ISO or ASTM standard defines the commercial colour books; their publishers own the codes. The standards that apply govern how you judge.
ASTM D1729-22: The ASTM practice for judging colour by eye. Visual appraisal is particularly important, it says, when product and standard differ in material: dyed fabric against a paper chip.
AATCC EP9-2025: The textile procedure for judging colour difference against a standard by eye, for lab dips against the book where your buyer has no procedure of its own.
The buyer's assessment specification: One light booth maker says brands should share a specification of angle, sample size, type of standard, light sources and surroundings. Ask your buyer for it.

What moves the price of a shade guide

Edition: dyed cotton swatches or printed paper chips.
Format: a guide, a planner, a full swatch library, a chip set or single cards.
Range: fashion and interiors, graphics, metallics, or nylon and polyester.
Release: the current edition, and whether an expansion pack is included.
Source: an authorised seller of the publisher's books, against a reseller.

Lead times and delivery

Time depends on whether the exact edition, range and release year your buyer names is in stock locally. A current cotton book held by a Dhaka seller is quicker than a new release, a nylon or polyester range or single cards brought in to order. Roptan confirms the dates in the quote.

Roptan delivers the books and cards to your lab, merchandising office or buying house anywhere in Bangladesh, in their original packaging, with a VAT invoice (Mushak 6.3). The delivery note lists the edition, range and year of each book, so your quality team can match it to the buyer's.

What we check for this order

Edition and rangeWe check that each book is the edition, cotton or paper, and the range your brief names.
Release yearWe compare the year printed on the book with the one your buyer holds, since colour can shift between editions.
Authorised sourceWe confirm the seller is an authorised source: publishers hold the rights to their colour codes and treat the standard as the product.
Complete and cleanWe check that every page or card is present, unmarked and in its original packaging when it arrives.

Questions buyers ask

Should a garment mill buy the cotton or the paper edition?

Usually the cotton edition, since the fabric range is meant mainly for textiles and soft goods and the paper range for hard goods. The buyer decides, though: a code can exist in both, so ask which edition the code refers to and match lab dips against that one.

Our book and the buyer's book do not match. Why?

Often the editions differ: colour can vary between editions of the same system, for example when the paper stock of a printed guide changes. Viewing matters too, so compare book and lab dip in a booth with a neutral grey interior under the buyer's agreed light.

The buyer sent a code, not a swatch. What do we need?

The colour book of the system and edition the code comes from, so the lab can dye to it. If the buyer sends a physical swatch or instrument reflectance data instead, match to that rather than to a book, and record which form the standard came in.

Can digital colour data replace the books?

Partly. Reflectance data from an instrument can serve as the standard, one system's publisher sells spectral data for its cotton, polyester and nylon swatches, and one instrument maker says brands that work from such data ask suppliers for fewer physical lab dips. Where the buyer's brief is a book code, you still need the book.

How soon will I hear back about textile testing and colour lab?

Within 48 hours of a complete requirement, with a price and a delivery date. A requirement is complete when it has the quantity, where it is needed and by when.

Who do I deal with?

With Roptan, when Roptan manages the order: we buy from the verified seller and deliver to you. With the supplier directly, when you post on the requirement board and choose a quote yourself.