Next Generation Color Quality Control TOOLS ® 2.0

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Overview: Datacolor TOOLS® 2.0 is a next-generation color quality control software designed for industries that evaluate colored products. It offers comprehensive features for managing color from start to finish, ensuring superior color quality control.

Key Features:

Ease of Use: The software provides an intuitive desktop explorer and customizable ribbon bar for easy access to frequently used functions. It supports both routine and complex color QC operations.
Spectral Visualization: Innovative Envision algorithms allow users to display spectral colors on textured substrates, enhancing visual assessment across multiple substrates and illuminants.
Configurable Interface: Users can personalize the layout, data views, and functions to suit their operational needs.
Tolerancing Options: Offers extensive tolerancing options, linking instrumental measurements to visual assessments and supporting multi-illuminant color constancy plots.
QTX Protocol: Supports the industry-standard Datacolor QTX protocol for flexible and easy communication of critical color data across supply chains.
Interactive Smart Graphs: Features an interactive graphics module for efficient data analysis, allowing users to manipulate data points and view data in 2D or 3D.
Backward Compatibility: Users of previous versions can upgrade with minimal disruption, benefiting from new features like smart graphics and spectral visualization.
Robust Database: Utilizes a Sybase database for reliable data access and performance, ensuring data safety and availability.
Design Link: Integrates with Adobe software, allowing seamless color communication between designers and suppliers.

Technical Specifications:

System Requirements: Requires a Pentium IV at 2.5 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 120 GB HDD, and Windows XP Pro (SP2), Vista, or 7.
Illuminants/Observers: Supports all industry-standard illuminants in CIE Standard Observers 2° and 10°.
Color Scales: Includes absolute and Delta values for major color difference formulas like CIELab 94 and CIEDE2000.
Statistical Analysis: Provides mean averages, standard deviations, and real-time trend plots with tolerances.
Procedures: Allows automation of QC tasks with step-by-step guidance and real sample texture displays.
Pass/Fail Tolerances: Offers AI-based and generic tolerances for various color scales.
Plots: Supports scalable plots for %R, K/S, and wavelength, with 3 Illuminant CIE Lab plots.
Industry-Specific Indices: Includes color inconstancy, density, whiteness, yellowness indices, and ISO/AATCC Gray scales.

Conclusion: Datacolor TOOLS® 2.0 is a robust, user-friendly software that sets a new standard in color quality control, offering extensive features for accurate color management across various industries.

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Next Generation Color Quality Control TOOLS ® 2.0-1

Next Generation Color Quality Control modern, supply-chain oriented color control software • Unrivaled Ease of Use with “QC Central” • Unique Spectral Visualization • Configurable Layout and Workflow • State-of-the Art Tolerancing • Datacolor QTX Protocol - the Industry Standard • New, Interactive Smart Graphs • Full Backward Compatibility • Modern & Reliable Design Architecture

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Next Generation Color Quality Control TOOLS ® 2.0-2

Smart Color QC Analysis, Visualization and Communication Datacolor TOOLS® 2.0, the next generation of color quality control software. To control and manage the outcome of color from start to finish, Datacolor TOOLS 2.0 offers outstanding performance in any industry that evaluates colored products by numbers and/or visual representation. Datacolor TOOLS 2.0 sets a new standard in all industries for superior, comprehensive color quality control. Unrivaled Ease-of-Use Work the way you want with Datacolor TOOLS 2.0. Retrieve and manage all of your samples in an intuitive desktop explorer. Put your...

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Interactive Graphical Plots An all new, interactive graphics module enables simple, efficient, and detailed data analysis. Users can view data graphically against the correct tolerances without searching through menus. Each graph type is interactive allowing the user to change data points, illuminants, zoom, orientation, and 2D or 3D views. When a data point is selected all other elements in the software are highlighted. Full Backward Compatibility Users of previous versions of Datacolor TOOLS will be pleased by the ability to upgrade to Datacolor TOOLS 2.0 with little disruption to their operation....

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smart color qc analysis, visUalization and commUnication illUminants / observers All industry used standard Illuminants in CIE Standard Observers 2° and 10°. color / color differences scales Absolute and Delta values, dE for all major color difference formulas, incl. CIELab 94, CIEDE2000, DIN99, and M&S 89. Absolute values, Delta values for all major color coordinates. Comprehensive selection of verbal color difference descriptors. statistical qUality analysis Mean average on any data field. Standard deviation on any data field. Real time trend plots with tolerances. Histograms with tolerances....

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