Datacolor|TECHKON announced that a new update of its colour QA management suite is now available. ChromaQA 7.5 arrives with new features and enhancements. ChromaQA 7.5 brings 18 new features and enhancements across SPEC, PRESS, STANDARDS, ADMIN, and SmartINK. Highlights include the ability to specify measurement locations within artwork, import colour standards from an ICC profile, customise drawdown reports, and create multiple ScoreCards.
Across the ChromaQA suite, version 7.5 gives users more control over how colour standards are created, measured, evaluated, and reported. The release also expands support for PantoneLIVE, Colibri colorant sets, SmartINK corrections, and SpectroCheck calibration reporting, helping printers and brands simplify everyday colour quality workflows.
‘ChromaQA 7.5 offers more flexible color quality control for printers and brands than ever before,’ said Martin van Balkom, VP of Marketing, Techkon USA.
Specify Measurement Locations within Artwork
When creating templates in Chroma Spec, it is now possible to upload a PDF or JPG image of the printed artwork. This not only allows the press operator to have visual confirmation of the print job but also enables the user to specify the exact measurement locations inside the image after selecting the colour standards.
Importing Colour Standards from ICC Profile
When building job templates in Chroma Spec, the option now exists to import print standards directly from an ICC profile (in addition to importing from Chroma Standards, PantoneLIVE or GMG OpenColor). CIELab values and TVI curves can be imported. ICC v2 and v4 are supported, as well as CMYK and multi-channel profiles.
Drawdown Reports in Chroma Standards
Customised drawdown reports can now be created in Chroma Standards with just a few clicks, printed or saved as PDF to easily share with end customers.
Change Illuminants/Observer for PantoneLIVE Colours
When accessing PantoneLIVE colours in Chroma Standards, we added the ability to select your illuminant/observer combination. Once set, ChromaQA will target the CIELab values for the illuminant/observer combination you selected while taking samples.
New Reporting Metric: Substrate Opacity
Substrate Opacity is now a new metric available in Chroma Press. Turn it on when creating a colour bar and set the aim opacity value and tolerance in the template; press operators then must measure over white and black and the opacity will be displayed and attached to the job results.
Multiple ScoreCards Support and Other Enhancements
Multiple ScoreCards can now be created and customised for the different scoring requirements (e.g. in-house scoring, GMI, brand specific) using Chroma Admin. Additionally, a new feature allows to set upper limit thresholds that no single color can exceed. This new feature provides greater flexibility, helping to detect problems immediately that might otherwise be hidden by only using averaged values.
Ability to Disable Colour Channels in Colour Bar
A new ability to disable colours from standard colour bars has been introduced. This allows the user to work with fewer colour bar layouts.
SmartInk Support Colibri Colorant Sets
Users can now import a Colibri colorant set and ChromaQA will automatically create a colorant set for use within SmartInk, saving time and eliminating the need to create new drawdowns.
SpectroCheck Enhancements
SpectroCheck now supports a report displaying reference values, measured values and deltaE values after calibrating the device. This additional documentation is helpful for ISO compliance.
Other noteworthy enhancements include:
– SmartInk corrections are now even more precise when using the ‘Show in Cups’ feature. All corrections are automatically rounded to ¼ cup and recalculated, showing the precise predicted deltaE.
– Color Book sorting is now supported in Chroma Standards. Color books can be sorted by Name, as well as Date Created and Modified, making it more convenient to work with large colour book collections.
– Master templates can now be created in Chroma Spec, simplifying the previous process of duplicating existing templates.
– Individual Color deltaE tolerances can now be defined in Chroma Standards. If individual tolerances are set, they will override the global value set in the template.
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