ChromaQA 6 makes colour management for brands, printers, converters and ink providers a breeze with its entirely redesigned, easy-to-use, user interface and powerful new features for colour matching, corrections, and standards management. ChromaQA6 combines several software packages into one, providing seamless cloud-based colour quality control workflows. TECHKON USA recently announced a major new release of this colour management suite.
The completely new user interface provides a modern, clean, look and feel for easier and more intuitive workflows. The ink toning technology SmartInk (only available in ChromaQA) uses AI for precise recipe corrections in the ink room and right on press. It has been further refined for higher accuracy, even faster matching, and now provides specific optimisation methods: ‘Automatic’ favours recipe correction with best spectral curve matching; ‘Lowest deltaE’ favours recipe correction with lowest resulting dE; and ‘Lowest Ink Amount’ favours recipe correction using less ink with a dE still under 1.0.
The new averaging feature allows users to create colour standards faster and more accurately. Chroma Standards now allows for multiple measurements when creating new standards. ChromaQA automatically averages together all measurements, perfect when measuring ink drawdowns or other materials with colour variations where an average will help to smooth out the measurements. With Chroma Standards, users can also manage their own ‘live’, cloud-based, library of colours that are specific to their inks, substrates and print processes, ensuring that all locations are targeting achievable colour standards. Also, Chroma Standards can automatically identify and eliminate duplicate colours to ensure a clean database.
New OmniConnect drivers allow using handheld spectrophotometer devices from third party manufacturers directly via USB connection without the need for third party software.
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