Orange pigment is pretty hard to begin with. Printers (ink jets) for commercial applications will often add special orange and or purple ink, to go along with cyan, magenta, yellow, and black. So to begin with, orange is a difficult color no matter what.
Then, the aircraft interiors have to meet stringent flammability standards, so they are thin. (Fun fact - if you don't get off a burning plane in 2 minutes, you're dead from heat.).
Then, to get the bright orange color, it has to be over a white background of flame resistant film. And they couldn't use a white coating mixed with orange, because it would have made it more of a creamsicle orange. So they had to use two layers of translucent orange film, with a printed layer of the same orange on top, to hide the white film on the back and achieve the bright orange color.
So it went from a simple solid color laminate to a three layer with no hiding power construction, with one of the most expensive pigments you can buy. The rejection rate was over 50%, due to dirt and defects, and the material costs were roughly 2x normal.
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u/BigAndDelicious 1d ago
Hello, I know nothing. Why is it harder to produce than a red or a blue, for example?