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Unsurpassed color quality control and color management

Controlling and managing the outcome of color from start to finish can be a challenge. Datacolor TOOLS sets the standard in all industries for superior, comprehensive color quality control.

  • Easily create color measurement files
  • Set up pass-fail criteria
  • Share data with other Datacolor SPECTRUM products
  • Generate customized reports for unsurpassed color management
  • Customize screens for viewing data
  • Configure forms for printing data
  • Export and deliver data to other Datacolor SPECTRUM applications

 
 

Color control the way you want it and the way your customers will accept it

Your ability to accommodate retailer and brand owner requirements can influence their decision to give you their color business. Yet, every retailer and brand owner has unique requirements when it comes to color control and the supply chains that manage color. That’s where Datacolor TOOLS can help.

We take the inevitability of change and build it into our software… giving you more flexibility to accommodate the requirements of your customers, suppliers and your own color quality control laboratory. More importantly, we make flexibility easy to accommodate your color technicians’ experience levels.

Datacolor Tools™ will help you:

  • Satisfy the changing color control needs of your customers and suppliers
  • Reduce sample submissions and rejects with artificial intelligence color tolerancing
  • Increase speed & color approvals by “training” the software to evaluate samples
  • Simplify color control for color QC technicians
  • Gain powerful color management insight into laboratory and production processes with comprehensive reporting and analysis
  • Pinpoint color deviations and optimize dyelot color matching with optional Datacolor MONITOR™ software for continuous dyeing operations
  • Minimize lot to lot variation and speed garment manufacturing with optional Datacolor SORT™
  • Optimize your complete color control process with seamless integration with all Datacolor Spectrum color control products
 
 

Color control the way you want it and the way your customers will accept it

Your job involves more than just producing consistent color from batch to batch. You’re responsible for meeting each customer’s unique color quality control criteria. From simple pass/fall tolerances to more complex supply chain process control mandates, it takes more than color quality color (QC) software. You need flexible color control—flexibility to meet your customers’ color control needs, plus integrate your own color workflow. That’s where Datacolor TOOLS can help.

Datacolor Tools™ will help you:

  • Satisfy the changing color control needs of your customers and suppliers
  • Reduce sample submissions and rejects with artificial intelligence color tolerancing
  • Increase speed & color approvals by “training” the software to evaluate samples
  • Simplify color control for color QC technicians
  • Gain powerful color management insight into laboratory and production processes with comprehensive reporting and analysis
  • Optimize your complete color control process with seamless integration with all Datacolor Spectrum color control products
 

Customizable screens for viewing data

Configurable forms for printing data

Data export in a variety of formats to other Datacolor SPECTRUM™ installations running anywhere in the world

A virtual desktop for establishing and easily recalling color standards and associated batches

Data sharing to ease the transition from formulation to quality control

Advanced storage capabilities with user-defined fields

Configurable graphical displays

Comprehensive coverage of color industry indices and standards

A wide range of standard and customizable reports

Statistical quality analysis – mean averages and standard deviations for multiple batch analysis

Trend and histogram graphical plots for any data field

Pass/Fail analysis on any data field

ILLUMINANTS / OBSERVERS

Feature

Description

Illuminant Types A, C, D50, D55, D65, D75, F2 (cool white), F6, F7, F8, F10, F11 (TL84), F12 (Ultralume 3000) M&S D65, M&S A, M&S TL84
Observers CIE Standard Observers 2° and 10°

COLOR / COLOR DIFFERENCES SCALES

Feature

Description

Absolute and Delta values, dE for CIELab, CIELab 94, CIE DE2000, DIN99, LCH, Luv, CMC (L:C), HunterLab, GE PQSII M&S 89 tolerances
Absolute values, Delta values for XYZ, Yxz, K/S
Delta values, dE for FMC-II
Plots to support all above color spaces

STATISTICAL QUALITY ANALYSIS

Description

Mean average on any data field
Standard deviation on any data field
Real time trend plots with tolerances
Histograms with tolerances

PROCEDURES

Description

Allow any QC task to be automated by using screen prompts, buttons and commands. This provides step-by-step guidance for system operators.

PASS/FAIL TOLERANCES

Feature

Description

For all above color scales in general for dE and individual for dL*, da*, db*, dC, dH, du, dv; low and high Automatic artificial intelligence (AI) based Pass/Fail tolerances
generic tolerances
Datacolor Pass/Fail tolerance formula with default block and individual configurable blocks (color or substrate independent)

PLOTS

Description

Scalable %R, K/S, log K/S versus wavelength
Plots to support all tolerances, 3D for AI tolerances

INDICES

Description

Metamerism (CIE)
Whiteness (ASTM E313, Berger, CIE, Ganz-Griesser, Stephanson)
Yellowness (ASTM E313, D1925, DIN6167)
Brightness (Tappi 525, R457 – UV included and excluded, Delta R457)
ISO/AATCC Gray scale for color change
ISO/AATCC Gray scale for staining
Helmoltz
Reflectance values
Color strength
555 shade sorting (standard and TOC method)
Harrison Index
Density indices
Contrast Ratio (Opacity)
Color Inconsistency

OPTIONS

Datacolor MONITOR™
Datacolor SORT™



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