X-Rite launches a spectrophotometer to control special effect colours
September 24, 2008
Technology - xDNA (dynamic numerical analysis of X-rite) - is a powerful tool for anyone who needs to understand the impact of the conditions of formulation or process on the color and appearance of the paintings with special effects, while also providing a technique that digitally connects the color from the design until the final product of manufacture.
With xDNA, companies throughout the supply chain can now share a reliable method to measure the colour and the appearance of paintings with effects which contain metallic pigments, perlescent or interference with special effects.
The introduction of xDNA is a leap of technology for companies that have struggled to precisely manage the paintings with special effects that could not be done, except by means of expensive tools and technologies of laboratory testing. The possible from the application of the xDNA technology results: time of activity improved in a line of editing or painting, reduction of waste and rapid analysis of the underlying causes when problems are detected.
Solutions for designers
Designers need the freedom to experiment and xDNA opens the full spectrum of color options. The technology allows designers to feed processing programs with consistent information about the colors for display and analysis of the ideas and the effects of the appearance of colors under various conditions, as well as to evaluate rapidly the colors available in the data file.
Solutions for companies of paintings
Through the xDNA technology, manufacturers of paints can get significant competitive advantages because the system helps everyone in the supply chain to reach an agreement on a single standard and provides a way to measure accurately with respect to this standard to all.
Solutions for manufacturers
Through a system, car manufacturers and their suppliers can improve uptime in their production lines and reduce the amount of repetitions of works of the products.
Solutions for quality assurance and quality control
xDNA allows quality control staff maintain and recover data files quickly and easily, and with the software X-Color QC export data to CEP programs to establish and monitor the process tolerances.