How to Ensure Effective Color in Today’s Manufacturing Processes (And why it’s more Important Than Ever Today)

Written by Shawn Mulligan


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Color matching is a prime example. The goal, of course, always is to be on-target, on-color withoutrepparttar need for correction. Yet hours of production time can be spent bringing batches on shade withoutrepparttar 137998 appropriate tools to accommodaterepparttar 137999 real-world variables that make up colorant conditions. Different gloss levels between batch and standard, for instance, can all too easily translate into expensive rejections, particularly in darker colors. And these variables are compounded withrepparttar 138000 rising popularity in special-effect pigments that more and more manufacturers are choosing to capture discerning, high-end buyers. Mica-based pigments, which create pearlescent and iridescent finishes, add depth and richness torepparttar 138001 appearance of a surface by manipulatingrepparttar 138002 behavior of light reflected fromrepparttar 138003 surface. Iridescents actually change hues and shift shades in order to create their unique coloration. In other words,repparttar 138004 very characteristics of these high-end coatings that make them in demand arerepparttar 138005 exact same aspects that make it so difficult to produce in a first-run match. The good news is thatrepparttar 138006 color-matching technology incorporated into today’s color communication system can now accommodate even high-end coatings such as metallic-based and pearlescents. To be surerepparttar 138007 system you are evaluating delivers these benefits, look for color matching software that can deliver: Significantly reduced color-matching times. Some, such as Datacolor’s Pearl color matching software, exhibit first-shot matching rates of up to 90 percent and lab trial reductions of 50 percent. Reduced raw material costs. Check out specific functionality rather than general claims; for example, how well doesrepparttar 138008 software providerepparttar 138009 ability to store recycles as formulas and colorants. Is it automatic? How can operators characterize recycles? By a single measurement or is it a more complicated process? Quick and complete color specification and communication with customers and suppliers. Examine howrepparttar 138010 color matching software works with other systems such as color quality control as well color-measuring instruments. Is it seamless? Can you link all key parties effectively in a comprehensive network of color management? Minimized waste and downtime. Pay particular attention to howrepparttar 138011 software allows operators to bringrepparttar 138012 most difficult to match colors, such as metallics, on shade in production. Are “adds” to batches automatically calculated? What aboutrepparttar 138013 corrected formula for new batches? Make sure operators can perform invaluable functions such as previewingrepparttar 138014 effects of “adds” of any colorant to a batch prior to production. Increased productivity. No matter how sophisticated, any color matching system is limited in effectiveness if it’s hard to learn and cumbersome to use. Look for software that takes advantage ofrepparttar 138015 best of today’s computers and features built-in user friendliness. The software also should be backed by comprehensive training and support.

Color measurement that’s well in hand Integrating an efficient color-measuring instrument intorepparttar 138016 system will significantly improverepparttar 138017 effectiveness of overall coloring process as well as ensure color consistency in a finished product. Yet in this area of color control, as well, challenges have remained. One continuing challenge in portable color measuring devices has been a cumbersome user interface. “Traditional” interfaces often use switches that must be toggled in a precise order to customize sample names and screen selections. Also, while just about every portable color measurement instrument onrepparttar 138018 market offers a wide variety of software tools, many are never used simply because it is too difficult to navigate throughrepparttar 138019 program to access them. The newest offering inrepparttar 138020 portable spectrophotometers introduces a radical departure and eliminates many of these challenges by utilizing PDA-driven technology for easy operation. This highly unique approach to color measurement is a prime example ofrepparttar 138021 latest technology to be incorporated intorepparttar 138022 new electronic color communication system. Why? PDA (Personal Data Assistant) technology deliversrepparttar 138023 best of both worlds for superior color quality. It allows leading color developers such as Datacolor to integrate software customized for just about any color management applications right into a light, easy to handle color measurement instrument. Plus, it retains all ofrepparttar 138024 navigation features that are standard on a PDA and which make it such a desirable device in general. No more cumbersome toggle switches or default selections. Using a stylus,repparttar 138025 user simply tapsrepparttar 138026 screen to input custom sample names or to change evaluation screens. This speedsrepparttar 138027 color evaluation process while it reduces errors in sample identification and evaluation selection. Adaptingrepparttar 138028 PDA to a color management application also takes advantage ofrepparttar 138029 memory/storage capacity available with a PDA. Inrepparttar 138030 past,repparttar 138031 software offerings that have accompanied portable instruments were confined to basic quality control functions—simple color difference, pass/fail, and color indices--because of memory limitations. Data upload/download to and from a PC has been a mandatory feature of all handheld units. However, QC and color formulation systems based on PC platforms generate enormous databases of both samples and formulas. Memory limitations have preventedrepparttar 138032 full utilization of these databases in a handheld application. The integration ofrepparttar 138033 PDA intorepparttar 138034 new instrument is an answer to that limitation. For instance,repparttar 138035 memory capacity of Datacolor’s PDA-driven device,repparttar 138036 Mercury 3000, makes it possible to accommodate a maximum of 30,000 samples, and to develop more complex programs that can search, retrieve, and manipulaterepparttar 138037 information that they contain.

Shawn Mulligan is Marketing Manager of Datacolor, Inc, an industry leader in color management and color control for the textile, paint, printing, plastics, coatings and digital color industries. Datacolor is located in Lawrenceville, NJ. More information on the company can be found at http://www.datacolor.com.


Learn to play poker online in order to make money - Pot Odds

Written by Dean Harding


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