RECOMMENDED PREREQUISITE COURSE: Essentials of Color Management
Course Outline:
Computer Color Matching
• The history of computer color matching
• An overview of the optical models used to build colorant sets
Datacolor Match Pigment: Ingredients and Colorants
• Product launch, Data Navigator, and user interface
• Data interface between Match Pigment and Tools
• Explanation of ingredients and colorant sets
• Enter ingredients in Ingredient Maintenance program for use in colorant set
• Creating a colorant set
• Store, calibrate, evaluate and save colorants
• Overview of colorant set maintenance
Datacolor Match Pigment: Matching and Correcting
• Explain the concept and design of Formula Central matching program
• Working with job templates (Use, Create, Modify)
• Match Jobs: Formula Grid, Ingredient Selection, and Multi-Formula Spreadsheet Displays
• Working with Job Pages & Matching Tools
• Job preferences, Formula Central setups, and defaults
• Batch Correction
– Automatic adds and reformulations
– User manual adds and colorant optimization
– Discuss performance factors
• Formula storage
• Detailed overview of Smart Match
• Recycles, Ingredient Properties (Keywords)
• Global Settings: User and System Admin
• Import/Export
Datacolor TOOLS (1/2 Day)
• Explanation of Data Navigator and handling of data
• Discuss the concept, design, and purpose of Tools desktop. Explain the use of button ribbons and menus
• Use of forms/templates and TOOLS Desktop Explorer
• Instrument calibration and options
• Measurement of standards and batches to the desktop using the instrument
• Review alternate data input methods
• Storing and retrieval of standards to data folders and the creation of folders
• Storing and retrieval of batches
• Evaluation of output data
– How to select and the effect of the Illuminant/Observer
– Discussion of flare and metamerism
– Explanation of available color spaces (CMC, CIE, FMC-II)
• Analysis of all available plots
• Establishing and setting pass/fail tolerances
• Import/export using the QTX function
• System setups and defaults
• Setting of standard and batch defaults
• User admin & customization
