Pantanal Color Company is a division of Mizar, Inc., located in Pompano Beach, Florida.

Mizar, the parent company, has been providing hi-fi color consulting and prepress services since 1999. Pantanal Color Company is referred to as "Pantanal" in the paragraphs below.

Pantanal's charter is more or less defined by it's "next generation color system", defined by the system's software component, Mizar Color Recipe.  Mizar Color Recipe is a hi-fi color separations program developed for the commercial printing trades and for a number of related trades.

The development of Mizar Color Recipe begins with the efforts of Norman Moment, president and founder of Mizar.

In '92 Norm, having a B.S. from University of Illinois, had developed a process (two chemical patents issued) which made possible the sale of tens of thousands of electronic gold testers (RS Mizar electronic gold testers) all over the world.  The process required developing a new way to inhibit the activity of certain chemicals.  The task was challenging and arduous, as Norm explains it, and when it was brought to fruition, he decided to apply the same discipline to "an endeavor of another kind".

The next endeavor began in '99.  A few years later the development gained momentum when the critical equations that would make possible converting the sRGB color space into a color space for pigmented inks [allowing for the most accurate printing of the colors that are most important in advertising and packaging] were developed by Sublogic Corporation, the company that originally developed the "Microsoft Flight Simulator".

In early 2003, the algorithms were completed as mathematical expressions. The goal of doing the separations with no more than six ink colors required was realized.  It took another 20 months for Sublogic to finalize the program, Mizar Color Recipe, the flagship product of Pantanal Color Company.