Increase your productivity
Increase your productivity
- Streamlined lite mode allows for faster data processing
- High level of flexibility in defining, selecting and working with industry color standards
- Ability to view colors on texture on a calibrated monitor enables full digital workflow
- Seamless integration with Datacolor Match Textile and Match Pigment formulation software
Ensure product quality
Ensure product quality
- Objective color assessment with accurate colorimetric data and visual quality representation
- Open standard QTX protocol enables full color approval tracking and communication
- Confident evaluation with a comprehensive list of illuminants, including latest CIE LED standards
- Support more customers with the ability to add encrypted color
Simplify your workflow
Simplify your workflow
- Intuitive user interface that is easy to learn and master
- Customizable layout to meet your individual needs
- Easy data navigation with the desktop explorer
Painless transition
Painless transition
- Full backward compatibility – QTX data exchange format is fully backward-compatible with Datacolor Tools 1.x and 2.x.
- Streamlined functionalities in Datacolor Tools lite mode greatly improves the speed and performance
- Suitable for installation in standalone, client-server LAN, or Terminal Server/Citrix environments.
What You Get
Datacolor TOOLS 2.4® Software License
Requirements
| Processor | Dual Core processor | 1 |
| Memory RAM | 8 GB | 1 |
| Free Hard Drive Capacity | 500 GB | 1 |
| Video Resolution | True Color | 2 |
| CD/DVD Drive | DVD Writer | 3 |
| Available Ports | (1) RS-232 Serial (for older spectrophotometers), (3) USB | 4 |
| Operating System | Windows 7 (32 or 64 bit), Windows 8 (32 or 64 bit), Windows 10 (32 or 64 bit) | 5 |
| Email (for supported level) | Outlook 2007 or above, POP3 | |
| Authenticated Sybase Database, supplied with the system | Sybase 12.0.1. EBF 3994 | |
| Optional Textile Database for SQL upon request | Microsoft SQL Server 2008 | 6 |
| Server OS | Microsoft Server 2008R2, Microsoft Server 2012, Microsoft Server 2016 |
- Minimum system configurations may limit performance, data capacity and operation of some features. Faster processor, more memory and faster hard drives will significantly enhance performance.
- Accurate on-screen color display requires monitor calibration and true-color video mode.
- Datacolor TOOLS is supplied on one DVD and Sybase 12 is supplied on a DVD. Recommend a DVD writer for data backup and file transfer from stand-alone systems.
- Datacolor spectrophotometers use either an RS-232 Serial or USB connectors.
- Windows 32 bit and 64 bit operating systems are supported. 64 bit hardware running Windows 32 bit operating system is supported. Datacolor Tools is a 32 bit application.
- Microsoft SQL Server database is only available for the textile database format.
Features Comparison
| TOOLS Basic | TOOLS PLUS WS | TOOLS PLUS | |
|---|---|---|---|
| General | |||
| LITE Mode | √ | √ | √ |
| Configurable button bars | √ | √ | √ |
| Hide menu bar/button bars | √ | √ | √ |
| Screen forms | Limited set of | √ | √ |
| Print forms | Limited set of | √ | √ |
| File forms | Limited set of | √ | √ |
| Multiple form display | √ | √ | √ |
| Marks & Spencer setup | √ | √ | √ |
| Manual curve adjustment | NO | √ | √ |
| Manual gloss adjustment | NO | √ | √ |
| Color Indices | |||
| Full range of Color Indices including: E313 Whiteness/Yellowness, Berger Whiteness, CIE Whiteness/Tint, Ganz-Griesser Whiteness, TAPPI 525 Brightness, R457 Brightness, GE PQSII Yellowness | √ | √ | √ |
| ASTM Haze (4 measurements) | NO | NO | √ |
| CMCCON97 Color Inconstancy | √ | √ | √ |
| DIN 6172 Metamerism index- additive and multiplicative | √ | √ | √ |
| APHA 10 Scale | NO form but in grid | NO | √ |
| Gray scale color change, Gray scale for staining | NO form but in grid | NO | √ |
| ISO 150-A06 Standard Depth | NO form but in grid | √ | √ |
| Statistics-std deviation, mean avg | √ | √ | √ |
| Tolerances | |||
| CIE L*a*b*C*h* u*v*, CIE 94, CMC, CIE DE2000, GE PQS, M&S 89, FMCII, Hunter | √ | √ | √ |
| Per-standard tolerances | √ | NO | √ |
| Datacolor, AI and Generic tolerancing | NO creation of new | NO | √ |
| New/Edit/Delete multiple tolerance blocks | Limited selection | NO | √ |
| Plots to support above Tolerances (2D and 3D) and absolute Trend and Histogram (NOt for generic Tolerances) | √ | √ | √ |
| 3 Illuminant Plot display | √ | √ | √ |
| Visualization | |||
| Envision Color Patch (new component) Color patch ( solid ) | √ | √ | √ |
| Color patch ( Image File ) | NO | √ | √ |
| Forms, templates and Business Fields | |||
| Form Editor | NO | NO | √ |
| Text output, Edit boxes, List boxes, Buttons, Plots (new types) | √ | √ | √ |
| User defined fields | √ | √ | √ |
| Date Picker | √ | √ | √ |
| Instruments & Data Management | |||
| Connect a wide range of Datacolor and competitive Instruments | √ | NO | √ |
| Various methods for Standard/Batch entry Manual entry of %R / %T values, Color Coordinates | √ | NO | √ |
| Storing data in the database | √ | NO | √ |
| Swap standard/batch | NO | √ | √ |
| Load standard as batch and batch as standard | √ | √ | √ |
| Save modified Template as new | NO | √ | √ |
| Create custom database fields | NO | NO | √ |
| Use Procedures previously created | √ | √ | √ |
| Save Screen for Startup | √ | √ | √ |
| User Management | |||
| User Management Module | NO | √ | |
| Create a new user | NO (only default ones) | √ | √ |
| Customizing a user profile | NO | √ | √ |
| Links and Output Options | |||
| Direct link to Formulation Packages | √ | √ | √ |
| Direct link to TRACK and/or ENVISION | NO | √ | √ |
| E-mail capability | NO | √ | √ |
| Export to ASCII file | √ | √ | √ |
| Miscellaneous | |||
| Terminal Server or Citrix Environment | NO | √ | √ |
| Dynamic Sorting Module and Side-Center-Side Module | NO | optional | optional |
