Internet based
Color Matching System
for
Paint Shop
Instant color match is today's requirement.
When you go to paint shop and ask for custom color, the salesman at the counter
will ask you for the required color. You will bring a fabric color piece or a
plastic color chip and ask him to get the paint of same color. Salesman at the
counter reads the color and finds the tinting formula on internet and gives you
the color instantly.
This is innovative
development in Point of Sales (POS) colour system based
on Internet technology (Benevue 2009). It is not based on
normally used conventional K-M theory for match prediction. In this new POS
colour system, one needs a colour sensor and an access to web page of service
provider. There is no need to determine optical properties ( K and S
coefficients ) of the bases and colorants. One has to just supply the existing formulas of the fan
deck colours in electronic form and service provider’s software will take care
of matching of any given custom colour. There is secrecy of the
software package as they do not want to disclose the mathematics of colour
matching. It is mainly database driven. For every colour, there is a
formula. Every colour is having unique colour specification such as X,Y,Z or L
,a,b . This is correlated to the colour formula..Once you have large number of
colours covering the full colour gamut and you have the established formula
bank , you can predict the tint formula for any custom colour by using database
and powerful mathematics. Benevue has done lot of work in this field and author
knows this product development .Main features of this new system are:
1) Zap your inspiration: Take your color reader
and simply measure the desired custom color in terms of three numbers (R, G,
and B).Low cost color readers are used for color measurement.
2) Log on to your internet website by
entering your user name and password .
3) You
will see various options available in the menu – book formula, closest colour
and tint by name etc.,
4) You enter the three colour values
of custom colour (R,G,B), and select the desired option say, ‘Tint
by Reading ‘
5) You will get the exact colour formula by
selecting the option ‘Tint by reading’
Computer instantly gives the tinting formula
which can be send to automatic dispenser or one can mix it manually.
Number of fan dec colours and their formulae
are stored on central server along with matching software
and one can get the formula by using the name of colour in fan dec or any other
options.
Author has worked with Benevue color
management system and introduced the same to a leading paint company in India
and established this technology at number of paint dealer shops. Results are
extremely good. Author has matched hundreds of pastel and
saturated colours using Benevue Colour Management System. It is a unique system
offering low cost, internet based colour matching solution.
Conventional CCM Vs Internet based POS
1) In conventional CCM system, daughter
system at the Dealer's shop needs experienced operator and database update is
to be carried out from the instructions of mother system.
2) In internet based Dealer shop system one
can update it automatically as it is on central server.
3) In Internet based colour management
system, centralized database of Fan deck, Formula Book etc., is on the main
server which is instantly available to any paint dealer shop on the Internet.
Dealer need not worry on updates .
4) Internet based system is equipped with
instant use of Formula Book, Closet Formula, Formula for any product line, formula for any
base / any tint base.
5) Central server is having an " Eye"
on paint dealer shop and one can get all the information about the usage of the
dealer, number of new custom colours matched, new formulas found,
competitors colours popularly used, regional sales, dealers sales etc.,It
offers unique
data mining facility which is extremely useful for sales/marketing
analysis.
If you are interested in this technology,
contact me on my e-mail address:
narendra.gangakhedkar@gmail.
