Formula Central™
- All color matching and correction functions appear and run from one convenient screen.
- Formula Central™ starts fully configured and “ready-to-work,” for making new matches or past jobs.
- Quick to learn and use, Formula Central™ responds to the experience level of each user.
- Appropriate tools respond to available data. Users concentrate on their work rather than “running the computer.”
- Active displays allow changes directly to data where it is displayed – units, forms, scaling or film thickness.
- Integrated evaluation windows include graphics, color coordinates and differences.
Jobs and Templates
- The job is a virtual notebook, organizing and saving each step in the coloring process.
- Job records provide a single location for viewing all selections, settings, data, and results.
- When re-opened, jobs return to the last page, ready to work. Navigating past pages takes only a single mouse click.
- Any job can be used as a template to automatically setup similar jobs in the future.
Colorants, Ingredients, Formulas and Data Management
- Optimized colorant calibrations
- A Colorant Set Wizard provides step-by-step guidance for creating colorant optical data.
- Ingredients may have any number of levels of component ingredients.
- Datacolor MATCH PIGMENT™ remembers properties (cost, density, available usage dates, and color strength) for individual ingredient lots.
- Formulas and ingredients can be displayed at any level of component expansion.
- Any amount in Datacolor MATCH PIGMENT™ may be expressed using any weight or volume unit; formula amount units may be changed individually or all at once. The system immediately incorporates rounding effects into any evaluation.
- Changing a single displayed value instantly scales a formula using the selected ingredient, sub-total or total amount.
- Ingredients can be added to a formula at any time, right where it is displayed.
- Data Navigator manages all data in user-defined folders and sub-folders, just like Windows® Explorer.
- Sybase’s® ASA Database Management System – proven, fully supported, ODBC, standalone or network server.
Keyword Systems
- Manage ingredients, using any property that can be expressed as a number or true/false relation.
- Select data using operators including: “and,” “not,” “equals,” “less than,” and “greater than.”
- There is no limit to the number of keywords and operators available in a single query; create very powerful searches.
Color Matching and Correction
- Optical models are optimized for specific materials, ensuring optimum results for transparent, translucent or opaque products.
- User selectable color matching methods include Auto Formulate, Search and Correct, and Combinatorial Matching.
- Enhanced translucent color-matching capabilities.
- Enhanced contrast/opacity measurement and specification.
- Target colors can be put into a queue for matching at a later time.
- Color matching to color coordinates, such as CIELAB L*a*b*.
- Proprietary technology for correcting measurements made when the substrate is not in optical contact with the sample.
- Gloss Compensation - Datacolor’s proprietary system for matching and correcting samples at varying gloss.
- Datacolor MATCH PIGMENT™ allows users to define a weighted average score of up to five evaluations as the goal for all matching and correcting functions.
- Formulation functions which consider film thickness, opacity and loading.
- Fractional parts format for input and output for use with dispensers.
- Gravimetric and volumetric dispenser interface support.
- Colorant amounts in formulas can be limited to user-specified minimum and/or maximum values.
- Any formula ingredient may be specified as “must use.” Any ingredient or sub-total amount may be fixed in a formula by editing a single value in a cell of the formula grid.
- Custom Formula Sorting, a user-specified weighted function prioritizes formula sorting; considers color differences, CIE L*a*b* coordinates, curve fit, opacity, metamerism, and cost criteria.
Color Correction
- Eliminate transitions between production addition or laboratory reformulation corrections.
- Automatically calculate the best add to satisfy job requirements (color difference, metamerism, opacity…).
- Production correction options include ability to find the best add to fit in a container, or to correct partial batches.
- Combinatorial correction generates multiple combinations of ingredients for correcting a batch.
- Powerful, yet easy-to-use, manual add functions instantly display the effects of formula changes.
- Manual add includes the capability to optimize one or all formula amounts, based on user-selected criteria.
NEW FEATURES in 2.0
New Mathematics
- Match colors accurately: with or without white, opaque, translucent, transparent and transmission from a single colorant database with ‘no questions asked’ convenience.
- New ‘combined method’ matching engine adaptively selects the best functions from classic one, two and multi-flux models -- and extends them with powerful automation for optimized colorant calibration, background optical contact and variable internal reflectance modeling.
- This new mathematical model results in time and cost savings even for difficult color matching applications where there was no solution available in the past.
Priorities
- Ingredient priority is a new option that will allow users to give individual ingredients a preference score that can be used during the matching process. Formulas with a higher ingredient priority score will be favored over those with a lower score.
Compatibility
Ingredient compatibility (IC) is a number that can be assigned to an ingredient combination that will allow the system to either eliminate formulas with specific combinations or apply an ingredient compatibility score to a formula. Formulas with a higher ingredient compatibility score will be favored over those with a lower score
Scheduling
A schedule is a new DMP object that contains a list of job templates and associated matching methods that can be used when matching a sample queue. A schedule allows the user to start a match using a particular job template but will allow the program to switch to another job template if the matching tolerances are not met.
Queue Function
DMP V2.0 introduces a completely new and powerful queue option for matching multiple samples. A queue is a new DMP object type that includes a list of the samples to be matched as well as the matching preferences (job template) to use for the match.
Data Exchange to POS
Formulas and samples created by DMP can now be transferred to Datacolor PAINT software, also data coming from Lab Paintmaker (palette formula’s and samples) can be imported into DMP
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