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Complete Color Solution for Textile
Color Measurement, Quality Control and Recipe Formulation Software
User Guide
DATA SERVICE TECHNOLOGY LTD.CO. ColorXP User Guide (v.4.1.3, January, 2011) This document is prepared for ColorXP v.4.1.3 . If your software version is different, some informations in this document may not valid for your software or you cannot find enough information. At Data Service, we strive to produce the highest quality documentation and welcome your feedback. Any comments or suggestions about our manuals can be emailed to [email protected] . Please include the following information: • Product name and version number, • Guide version, • Page number, • Brief description of content (inaccurate step-by-step instructions, grammatical errors or spelling errors, information that requires clarification or more details, etc.), • Your suggestion for how to correct/improve documentation. Data Service reserves the right to make additions and/or changes in the product(s) and/or software(s) described in this document at any time. © 2007 The contents of the guide, ColorXP and other Data Service products are the property of Data Service. All Rights Reserved. All trademarks in this guide are registered trademarks of their respective companies. To obtain more information or visit our website at www.dataservis.com.tr. If you need help about ColorXP, you can find contact information below. Tel. : +90 212 618 29 00 GSM : +90 532 420 97 08 [email protected] [email protected] www.dataservis.com.tr
CONTENTS
Introduction to ColorXP......................................................................................................................... 1
System Requirements................................................................................................................... 1
Launching ColorXP ............................................................................................................................... 2
License Activation of the ColorXP................................................................................................... 2
Login to ColorXP .......................................................................................................................... 3
Instrument Selection and Setup............................................................................................................. 5
Program Features................................................................................................................................. 8
ColorXP Desktop .......................................................................................................................... 8
Database..................................................................................................................................... 8
Pass/Fail Tolerances ..................................................................................................................... 9
Instrument Calibration ........................................................................................................................ 10
Measuring Samples............................................................................................................................. 13
Program Setup................................................................................................................................... 16
Program Menus.................................................................................................................................. 18
QUALITY CONTROL MENU .......................................................................................................... 19
Quality Control................................................................................................................... 19
Multiple Quality Control ...................................................................................................... 26
Multiple Quality Control with Low Tolerance ......................................................................... 28
555 Sorting ....................................................................................................................... 28
55 Sorting ......................................................................................................................... 30
Gray Scale Sorting ............................................................................................................. 31
Strength............................................................................................................................ 31
Whiteness Indices .............................................................................................................. 33
Yellowness Indices ............................................................................................................. 34
Metamerism Indice............................................................................................................. 34
Brightness Indice (R457) .................................................................................................... 35
Color Inconstancy .............................................................................................................. 35
Opacity ............................................................................................................................. 36
Gray Scale – Staining Evaluation ......................................................................................... 37
Gray Scale – Color Change Evaluation.................................................................................. 37
RECIPE MENU............................................................................................................................ 39
Recipe Calculation.............................................................................................................. 39
Correction Recipe Calculation .............................................................................................. 42
Addition Recipe Calculation ................................................................................................. 44
Manual Recipe Building....................................................................................................... 46
DYE-GROUPS (DYE-SETS) MENU ................................................................................................. 48
ARCHIVE RECIPES MENU............................................................................................................ 57
FILE OPERATIONS MENU............................................................................................................ 62
Saved Samples .................................................................................................................. 62
Saved Materials ................................................................................................................. 63
Manual Sample Input (to Database) .................................................................................... 64
Import File ........................................................................................................................ 66
Import Reflectance File .............................................................................................. 66
Import Dye-Set File.................................................................................................... 67
Export File......................................................................................................................... 68
Export Reflectance File ............................................................................................... 68
Export Dye-Set File .................................................................................................... 69
User-Defined Illuminants .................................................................................................... 69
About ColorXP Menu .......................................................................................................... 71
PROGRAM SETUP MENU ............................................................................................................. 72
Database........................................................................................................................... 72
Create Empty Database ...................................................................................................... 72
Select Database................................................................................................................. 72
Users ................................................................................................................................ 72
Changing Password of the Current User....................................................................... 73
Program Setup................................................................................................................... 74
EXIT PROGRAM MENU................................................................................................................ 75
Exit Program ..................................................................................................................... 75
Change User...................................................................................................................... 75
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Introduction to ColorXP
ColorXP is a powerful color measurement, quality control and recipe calculation system. ColorXP
have a comprehensive color quality control and textile recipe calculation package that includes
complete tolerancing options, color evaluations for almost all color difference equations, plot
options, whiteness, yellowness and staining evaluations among other features also includes the
capability to measure samples.
ColorXP represents convenience in color control and recipe calculation technology, providing you
with a system that is easy to operate, has powerful options to solve color problems, and can be
configured to your specific needs.
ColorXP provides all capabilities in only one program. ColorXP (ColorXP.exe) is a Windows-based
program that is delivered fully configured, and can be used immediately for a wide range of QC,
calculation and archive applications. In addition, the program offers many options that enable
the user to customize both the user authorizations and the database.
To successfully use the program, only basic knowledge of Windows is enough.
System Requirements
The system requirements shown below are the minimum configuration needed to operate the
ColorXP software.
Components Description / Comments
RAM Minimum 256 MB is recommended for generally increased performance
HARD DISK Minimum of 500 MB free disk space is recommended.
PRINTER Windows supported printers: Ink Jet, Laser Printers. Color printers are recommended.
MOUSE Required.
MICROSOFT WINDOWS Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 (32 bit versions)
NETWORK
ColorXP operates on Networks compatible with the Microsoft Windows operating systems by using the application layer of the network operating system. Databases on different computers can be used via network.
You must set decimal separator as point (.) and thousands separator as comma (,) at the Regional Settings (Start→Settings→Control Panel→Regional Settings).
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Launching ColorXP
License Activation of the ColorXP
You must activate the license of the ColorXP first. If you are not activated the program, you can
use it for 30 days from to installation date. This is the Trial Period.
During the trial period, you will see a message box when you want to launch the program. If the
program is installed by a service, generally it is activated by service.
When you see this message you can continue by clicking to OK button during trial period. You
can see how many days left to end of the trial period.
After trial period you will be see the screen shown below.
If you click to No button, the program will be closed.
When you select About ColorXP menu (from the File Operations menu button on the ColorXP
desktop) in trial period, or by clicking Yes to Activation Required message (after trial period), the
Activation screen appears.
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You will see here an Activation Code for your installation. You can obtain the Activation Key for
your Activation Code from us. You must inform us for obtain an Activation Key. You can inform
us with e-mail or phone. When you receive the Activation Key, please write this to related boxes
and click to Activate button. If your Activation Key is accepted, your activation operation will be
done, and the Login screen appears.
Login to ColorXP
The login and passwords provided in this explanation are the defaults that ship with the system.
Your System Administrator may have changed these after installing the program.
For login to ColorXP please do the following:
1. Double-click to ColorXP icon on the desktop
or
Select Start - Programs - ColorXP ColorSolution - ColorXP Xolor Solution menu.
The ColorXP splash screen displays and then the User Login dialog box appears.
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2. Enter a User Name and Password.
• In the user name field, enter the user name. The default user name is ColorXP. It
is not case-sensitive.
• In the Password field, enter your password. The default password is colorxp. It is
case-sensitive.
• You can also change the program language at this screen between Turkish and
English. For this you can use the combobox.
3. Click the Login button or press Enter when password field focused. The program opens to
the ColorXP desktop.
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Instrument Selection and Setup
After installation of the ColorXP, you must select and setup your spectrophotometer first. For
this, do the following:
1. Open the Spectrophotometer menu (click to down arrow at the right of menu button)
2. Click to Select Spectrophotometer menu.
3. The Select Spectrophotometer window displays. This screen provides access to the basic
instrument configuration. It includes the selection of instrument type, communications port
and other basic information about the instrument you are using.
4. From the Spectrophotometer dropdown list select your instrument.
5. From the Communication Port dropdown list select COM port connected to the instrument.
6. Select Calibration Interval from the dropdown list. This determines when the instrument
needs to be recalibrated. This can be customized to the needs of the application. The
program will automatically prompt you to recalibrate the instrument when the interval has
elapsed. The default is 4 hours. We recommend 8 hours as the maximum interval to be set.
7. Flash Count, identifies the number of times the light will flash for each measurement. Using
multiple flashes enhances the illumination of the sample, and is typically used when
measuring dark samples. If applicable you can select flash count you want.
8. Test Tile is used to perform a routine check on the instrument during calibration. If you
want to perform test after calibration process you can use Measure Test Tile button. You
must save settings and perform calibraton before using this button. When you measure test
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tile once, program will be ask for the test measurement. If you do not want test tile you can
click Delete button appears right of the Measure Test Tile button when measured test tile
exist.
For loading of the test tile, do the followings:
a. Click to Measure Test Tile button
b. Place the test tile to the port and click OK.
c. After succesfull measurement you must see dialog box below.
d. After this click OK button. Now you can see Delete button at the right of the
Measure Test Tile button. If you don’t want to make calibration test you can delete
the loaded test tile values by clicking to this button. When you click to Delete button
you will be prompted.
e. If you select Yes button, the values will be deleted and calibration test will not be
performed.
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9. If your instrument is a Datacolor model you will need to install the calibration data. The
calibration data can be found on a diskette or CD included with the calibration tiles. You
must click to Import Absolute White Values button for install the calibration data. When you
done this the Import Absolute White Values window displays.
Please click to search (magnifier icon) button to select the directory of your WHITESI.DAT
and WHITESE.DAT files. If selected directory contains these files you can see path of the file
on the screen, then click Import button. You must see dialog box below.
Imported values will take effect after the next calibration.
If your selection does not include the files you will be prompted with the dialog box below.
If this occur please select correct directory.
If you have received a replacement white tile, a diskette and/or CD will be provided along
with the new tile. It contains the values unique to the new white tile. You must replace the
white tile values stored on the system. Use the installation procedure described above to
install the new white tile data.
10. After you adjust all settings click to Save Settings button. You will back to ColorXP desktop if
program can connect to instrument, else you will prompted.
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Program Features
ColorXP Desktop
Desktop of the ColorXP composed of information labels and menu buttons. At the left panel you
can find informations of current date, license owner, current user, selected database, instrument
model and current status of the instrument. At the right panel there are 8 (count may be change
depends on user authorizations) menu butons. If the menu button have sub-menu there is a
down arrow button at the right side for open of dropdown menus.
When you double click to Current User label, Change Password screen will be displayed to
change password of the current user.
When you double click to Selected Database label, Select Database dialog box will be displayed
to change current database.
Database
Data can be stored and retrieved from the database. All samples measured are automatically
saved (depends on the selected options) at the time of measurement. If you exit the program
and turn the off computer, the samples remain in the database, and are available the next time
you open the program. When you open the program, ColorXP first controls the database and
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deletes the temporary saved samples after default life time. We recommend that you store
important sample data as permanent in the database. The life time of the temporary saved
samples can be setted at Program Setup. You can work with multiple databases. Every database
file include the Standard and trial measurements and dye-sets. When you change the database
your dye-sets will be changed to contents of the database. If you want copy a dye-set from a
database to another, you can easily export from database and import to another database.
Pass/Fail Tolerances
A pass/fail tolerance sets an acceptability limit on specific colorimetric parameters. The color
difference between the standard and the batch is compared to the acceptability tolerances for
that standard, and the program displays a Pass/Fail report.
ColorXP provides you the ability to establish tolerancing systems based on numeric descriptions
of the color. You typically begin by identifying the color difference equation (e.g., CMC,
CIEL*a*b*, etc.) to be used, and a single tolerance value, DE, to define the acceptability of the
color match. When additional parameters, such as DL*, Da*, Db*, DC*, and DH, are added to
the tolerance, the tolerance becomes more refined, and will yield instrumental pass/fail
evaluations that more closely agree with your visual evaluation of the color. You can define this
values from the Program Setup.
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Instrument Calibration
Instrument calibration is a function that you perform on a daily basis. This routine compensates
for any changes to the instrument that can affect the accuracy of the measurement. You must
calibrate the instrument separately for each condition you use. This includes changes to the
aperture size (and also lense), status of specular component, UV adjustment, and
reflectance/transmittance modes. he calibration procedure standardizes the instrument to
compensate for any changes in performance over time. Changes in the environment and the age
of the instrument can affect the measurement data. The calibration routine produces factors
that are applied to the measurement data to adjust the measurement for these changes. This
allows you to compare measurements made at different times during the life of the instrument.
The calibration procedure requires the selection of a series of instrument settings.
Please be sure your decimal separators is setted as point (.) and thousands separators is setted
as comma (,) at Regional Settings of Windows.
To start the calibration :
1. Open the Spectrophotometer menu (click to down arrow at the right of menu button)
2. Click to Calibration menu.
3. The Calibration window displays (You can also reach to Calibration window from the
Measurement window).
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4. There are 5 settings possible at this screen. If this is your first calibration you must adjust
these settings. Program will be remember your selections at next calibrations.
a. Measurement Type : Generally instruments uses Reflectance measurement mode.
Some instruments include an option to measure the transmission properties of
transparent and translucent samples. This feature is used to measure the regular
transmittance of transparent solid and liquid samples, as well as the total and
diffuse transmittance of translucent samples. If your ColorXP version support you
can use this option for transmission measurements. Select your choice.
b. Specular : This field determines the position of the specular port. It is either closed
– Specular Included (SCI), or open -- Specular Excluded (SCE). This option is used
to include or exclude the surface effects in the measurement. Select your
preference.
• Specular Component Included (SCI). The specular port is closed and the influence
of the surface is included in the reflectance measurement.
• Specular Component Excluded (SCE) The specular port is open and the influence
of the surface is excluded from the measurement
c. UV : These fields on the calibration screen identify the procedure used to adjust the
UV filter position. This option is only relevant for instruments fitted with UV filters.
There are 5 options possible. For textile industry we recommend UV included
position. Please select suitable option for you.
a. Include : The UV component in the light source is included (fitler off). This is
the condition of instruments that are not fitted with UV filters.
b. Exclude : This is a fixed filter that excludes wavelengths below 400nm. It is the
recommended filter position for the UV-excluded condition, when evaluating the
whiteness of fluorescent samples.
c. Filter-1 : This is a fixed filter that excludes wavelengths below (generally)
420nm.
d. Filter-2 : a This is a fixed filter that excludes wavelengths below (generally)
460nm. This selection can be used to identify molecules that absorb energy in
shorter wavelengths of the visible spectrum (i.e., above 460nm) and re-emit it in
the longer wavelengths (i.e., above 560nm). These wavelengths are associated
with the yellow, orange or red regions of the visible spectrum. It is not used for
whiteness evaluations.
e. % : Identifies the current position of the adjustable UV filter. This is expressed
as a percent of the filter extended into the light source path.
d. Plate : This is a selection of the measurement port opening and lens position. Some
instruments offer multiple apertures sizes while others are have a single, fixed size
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and lens position. Your sample must completely cover the aperture size you select.
You should always use the largest aperture size available.
General description of the apertures supported by ColorXP below.
XLAV Extra Large Area View.
LAV Large Area View.
MAV Medium Area View.
SAV Small Area View.
USAV, XUSAV Ultra or Extra Ultra Small Area View
e. Lens : This option must set same value with the aperture.
5. Select or control the settings and click the Calibrate button to start the procedure. The
program will prompt you for a measurement of the black trap and white tile (order of the
black trap and white tile can be changed depends on the instrument model).
For example, for the Datacolor instruments, first place the black trap over the measurement
port and click the OK button. When the measurement is completed, you will be prompted
for white tile. Replace the black trap with the white calibration tile and click the OK button
again. If you load the test tile before (from the Select Spectrophotometer menu), when the
measurement is completed, you will be prompted by a dialog box for the calibration test. If
you want to make calibration test, replace the white tile with the test tile and click YES
button. When the measurement is completed program will be displays results of the
comparison with pre-defined measurement. If you don’t want to make calibration test select
NO button. If you didn’t load the test tile before you will not prompted for calibration test.
6. After successful or unsuccessful operation you will be prompted about this.
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Measuring Samples
If you want to measure the sample series (for example dye-set samples) you can use directly
measurement menu from the ColorXP desktop. You can also make measurements at the all
modules of the ColorXP.
When you select the Measurement menu, the Measurement window appears.
At this screen, input the sample name, place the standard at the instrument port, and click the
Measurement button or press Enter when cursor focused in the Sample Name field to start the
measurement. If your instrument is uncalibrated, you cannot perform measurement. In this
situation the Measurement button is disabled. You can use Calibration button on this screen for
perform calibration operation.
The sample just measured becomes the current sample. Sample table, reflectance graph and
color simulation fields on the window will be updated to display the data for the sample just
measured. You can make up to 15 measurements. When you make multiple measurements,
program calculate mean averages of the reflectance values. If you want to eliminate one of the
measurements please uncheck the OK box from the sample table. When you done this program
will be recalculated the average values.
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You can also input Customer, Material and Description informations for the sample by the using
of the Record Informations tab on this window. If you want to select a material, you must define
it from desktop, File Operations – Saved Materials sub-menu first.
If you want to see measured reflectance values please click to Reflectance Values tab.
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There are two additional options on this window: Save to Database and Temporary options. If
you want to save the measurement to database you must check the Save to Database option.
Otherwise program will not save the measurement to database, you can only use the
mesurement momentary at the modules.
If you check the Temporary option, program will be delete the sample after the pre-defined life
time (at the Program Setup), else if you don’t check this option, program never deletes the
sample.
After finishing of the measurement(s) for current sample, you must click to Approve button.
Another way is by pressing the End key from the keyboard. In this situation program will be
want an approval from you. If you pres Enter or click to Yes button the current measurement
will be finished.
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Program Setup
To change the some default settings of the program, you must use the Program Setup menu
from the Tools button at the ColorXP desktop.
When you select the Program Setup menu, window below is displayed. When you finished to
adjust the settings, save them by clicking to Save Settings button. Descriptions of the settings
are below.
Program Language: You can change Program Language between Turkish and English from this
drop down box.
License Owner: You must write to this field your company name. This field is using for reports
by the program.
Save to Database as Default: If you check this box, the program saves the measurements to
database all times. You can cancel this option temporarily from the measurement window.
Save Samples as Temporary as Default: If you check this box, all measurements saved to
database as temporary. After default life time the program will be deleted these measurements.
You can cancel this option temporarily from the measurement window.
Show Calibration Warnings: If you check this box, warning messages for calibration will be
shoved during calibration operation.
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Temporary Data Lifetime: After this value of days, when you launch the program, the temporary
saved measurement datas will be deleted. If you do not want to delete any datas you must save
them as permanent, for this you can uncheck the Save Samples as Temporary as Default
option.
Logo: If you want to use your logo in the reports., you can select a logo by the click to Select
Logo button. For the best visibility of logo, the logo must be maximum 150x90 pixels. If you do
not want to use of the logo you can delete it by the clicking of the Delete Logo button.
Illuminants and Standard Observer Angle: You can define 3 illuminants as default. Normally the
program will be use them as default, but you can change in modules them as momentary. You
can set default Standard observer angle also, and you can change this in modules as
momentary.
Default Formula: The program will be used as default this formula at the quality control
calculations. Please select the formula from the drop down box, common used in your company.
For example if you use commonly the CIELab formula please select it from the box, and when
one of your customers want CMC 2:1, you can change the formula from the quality control
screens.
Decimal Digits for the Recipes: Please select the decimal digit count from the drop down box.
For example, when you select 4, dye concentrations in recipes will be shown with 4 digits (for
example 0.1234).
Normal Tolerances for Lab Spaces: You can define DL, Da, Db and DE tolerances for Lab
(cartesian) spaces (like CIELab). If you checked the boxes near the DL, Da and DB fields, these
values will be considered for the pass-fail decisions. If not the pass-fail decisions will be done
only with DE value. For example if these boxes unchecked and DE tolerance is 1 and the real DE
value of your comparison is 0.8 and the Da value is 0.5, the decision will be PASS, otherwise if
these boxes are checked and Da tolerance value is 0.4, the decision will be FAIL.
Normal Tolerances for LCH Spaces: You can define DL, DC, DH and DE tolerances for LCH
(angular) spaces (like CMC 2:1).
Low Tolerances for Lab and LCH Spaces: You can define the tolerances for comparisons with
low tolerance values.
555 and 55 Block Settings: You can define the coordinates and the values for the shade sorting
modules.
You can change these default values momentary at the modules all times.
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Program Menus
There are 8 main menu options on the desktop. Some of these have sub-menus. The menu tree
is shown below. - Quality Control
i. Quality Control ii. Multiple Quality Control iii. Multiple Quality Control with Low Tolerance iv. Sorting
1. 555 Sorting 2. 55 Sorting 3. Gray Scale Sorting
v. Color Strength vi. Whiteness Indices vii. Yellowness Indices viii. Metamerism Indice ix. Brightness Indice x. Color Inconstancy xi. Opacity xii. Fastness Evaluation
1. Staining Evaluation 2. Color Change Evaluation
- Spectrophotometer i. Measurement ii. Calibration iii. Select Spectrophotometer iv. Spectrophotometer Working Report
- Recipe
i. Recipe Calculation ii. Correction Recipe Calculation iii. Addition Recipe Calculation iv. Manual Recipe Building
- Dye Groups (Dye-Sets) - Archive Recipes - File Operations
i. Saved Samples ii. Saved Materials iii. Manual Sample Input iv. Import File
1. Import Reflectance File 2. Import Dye-Set File
v. Export File 1. Export Reflectance File 2. Export Dye-Set File
vi. User-Defined Illuminants vii. About ColorXP…
- Tools
i. Database 1. Create Empty Database 2. Select Database File
ii. Users iii. Program Setup
- Exit Program
i. Exit Program ii. Change User
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QUALITY CONTROL MENU
Quality Control
Quality Control module is the main color comparison module. You can select one Standard and
one Batch to compare. The window is shown below.
To compare two samples, please select or measure the Standard. If your standard is measured
already please click to Select Standard button, the Saved Samples in Database screen appears.
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In this screen you can browse samples with Mouse or keyboard. If you know the name of the
Standard, please click to any row of the Sample Name column and write with keyboard. During
input related row will be selected. After select you can pres Enter key or double-click to row or
click to Select button. You will be back to Quality Control window.
If you want to measure the Standard please click to Measure Standard button. The
measurement window will be shown. Please perform the measurement as described previously.
After selection or the measurement, Standard section of the screen will be filled.
Now, you must select or measure the batch sample. Please click to Select Batch button to
selection from the database or click to Measure Batch to take measurement from the
instrument. After this you will see the results.
After comparison the Color Differences values will be shown in related tab. You will see at this
tab DL, Da, Db, DC, DH, DE values and the pass-fail result of the calculation depends on the
selected settings for 3 illuminants.
You can change momentary the setttings like illuminants, difference formula, Standard observer
angle and pass-fail tolerances.
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Please do not forget; the changes you were made are valid momentary for only this time. When
you close the window and open again, the settings will be back to their default values. This is
valid for all modules of the ColorXP.
Details of the color differences notations is shown below.
By change the values at right of the screen, you can change the default settings as momentary.
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There are 6 tabs in the screen. The first tab (Color Differences) is decribed above. The second
tab is Colorimetric Values. You can see calculated colorimetric values of the standard and batch
at 3 illuminants.
When you click to Wavelength-%Reflectance Graph tab, you can see the graphs of the
reflectance.
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K/S Graph tab contains the K/S graphs of the Standard and batch. You can reach this graph by
clicking to K/S Graph tab.
ColorXP have the detailed CIELab graph. When you click to CIELab Graph tab, you can see the
CIELab graph.
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At this screen, on the left side, you can see different settings. With illuminant group, you can
change the graph for the different illuminants.
With the L axis options you can see the L graph together with one of Da or Db axis (two
dimension) or only L axis (one dimension).
If you check the Show Colored box, you can see graphs with colored demonstration (shown
below).
CIELab Graph will be changed if you change the difference formula. For example the image
above for the CIELab (cartesian), and the image for the CMC 2:1 (angular) is shown below.
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If you need, you can see the
Chromaticity Diagram for the Standard
and batch at this screen. Please click
to Chromaticity Diagram tab.
Click to Print Report button menu to
print the current report. There are 3
reports as default.
Click one of the reports, you preferred,
to see print preview.
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To print the report please click to printer icon at the toolbar. If you want to zoom-in, double-
click with left button of mouse, or to zoom-out double-click with right button of Mouse, or use
(+) (-) buttons at the toolbar. To change orientation of the report please click Landscape or
Portrait buttons.
You can change current QC module by
using of the Other Quality Control
Modules button. When you click to this
button you will see the available QC
modules list. When you clicked one of
the menus you will be redirected to
this module with current Standard and
batch measurements.
Multiple Quality Control
If you want to compare more than one batches against a Standard, you must use the Multiple
Quality Control module.
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First, select or measure the Standard by described previously. Then, select or measure the
batch(es). You can use Ctrl or Shift keys at Saved Samples in Database screen to select more
than one batches.
In this screen you can see Color Differences, Colorimetric Values, Reflectance Graphes, K/S
Graphes and CIELab Graph as same as Quality Control Module. Only difference is you can see
values for only one illuminant at same time. You can change the illuminant by browsing of the
Illuminant drop-down list.
By using of the Delete Selected from List button, you can delete selected row from the current
table. By this, the sample is deleted only from the table, not from the database.
You can change the difference formula and tolerance values momentary by using of the related
fields.
With the Other Quality Control Modules menu, you can reach to different QC modules for the
current Standard and batches.
You can see CIELab Graph by clicking of the related tab. In this graph, the program uses
different colors for the Standard and batches.
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If you want to change default values of these color definitions click to Edit Color Definitions for
Graph button. The Color Definition for Graphs window appears.
To change a color default, click to row and change Red, Gren and Blue values. When you
finished the settings of the row, click to Change Selected Color button.
Multiple Quality Control with Low Tolerance
Using of this module is exactly same with Multiple Quality Control Module. Only difference is
Default Tolerance Values. You can use this module for useful control of the side-middle-side
color comparisons for fabrics. The other functions of the module is same as Multipel Quality
Control Module.
555 Sorting
Shade sorting is a feature that is useful to applications whose finished product is assembled
from various batches of the same color. It helps to insure color consistency across a finished
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product, and is commonly used in textile applications for example, to assemble finished pieces
of wearing apparel. A shirt may be assembled from different lots of fabric that match that
standard. The collar may be cut from one lot and the sleeves from another. The challenge
during assembly is to maintain the consistency of the color across the finished shirt. In this
situation, all of the batches available for use are acceptable matches to the standard. However,
the lots may vary significantly from one to another. One lot may be more yellow than the
standard, while another may be bluer. When these two lots of material are laid side-by-side,
they may appear to be a mismatch.
Shade sorting allows you to sort all of the acceptable batches into boxes. You can then select all
of the batches you need to complete a finished product from the same box, or from adjacent
boxes. This reduces any lot-to-lot variation within the finished product.
You can made shade sorting with ColorXP. There are three possibilities in the program; 555
Sorting, 55 Sorting and Gray Scale Sorting.
The traditional 5-5-5 shade sorting option is based strictly on an instrumental evaluation of the
batches. You define the standard using three colorimetric coordinates; for example, L*, a*, and
b*. You then determine the minimum and maximum value for each coordinate, based on the
batches that are acceptable. From the measurement of these batches, you can manually identify
the lowest and highest values for each of the three coordinates, and these values define the
acceptability range around the standard. The range along each parameter is subdivided equally
into 9 symmetrical boxes, with the standard located in the center box. The Standard is typically
assigned a sort code of 5 for each coordinate, resulting in the code 5-5-5. 555 Sort Tolerances
can be assigned to individual standards, or a single tolerance can be applied to all standards.
Creating/editing 555 Sort Tolerances is included as part of the procedure for creating tolerances.
With 555 Sorting module, you can obtain shade values of the batches against a Standard with
using of 3 axis. You can use Lab or LCH axis.
First, select or measure the Standard by described previously. Then, select or measure the
batch(es). You can use Ctrl or Shift keys at Saved Samples in Database screen to select more
than one batches.
You can see Color Difference and 55 Values at related tab. In this tab, results of the calculations
shown for the selected illuminant, observer and difference formula. You can change these
settings momentary at the screen. You can change the 555 tolerance block values also.
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At the CIELab Graph tab you can see layout of the samples in the CIELab graph.
With the Other Quality Control Modules menu, you can reach to different QC modules for the
current Standard and batches.
55 Sorting
This module is exactly same with 555 Sorting module, but this module uses only 2 axis (DL and
Db axis). 55 Sorting is suitable for denim producers especially. Because denim producers prefer
to use only DL and Db axis for the shade sorting. They don’t want to use Da axis.
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Gray Scale Sorting
Sometimes, producers or customers prefer to use gray scale for shade sorting. ColorXP contains
a Gray Scale Sorting module for this purpose. ColorXP performs the calculations against ISO
105/A05 Instrumental Evaluation of Color Change Standard.
Using of the module same with other QC modules. When you select and/or measure the
Standard and batches, you can see the results.
In this screen you can see the C/2°, C/10°, D65/2° and D65/10° Gray Scale Color Change
values against the ISO 105/A05 standard.
Strength
In the manufacture of a colored product, it is important to develop a formula that will reproduce
the color accurately and efficiently each time. A production formula is reliable only if the raw
materials used in the formula are consistent from lot to lot. A strength evaluation compares the
current lot of raw material to the master Standard for both tinting strength and color. It
determines if the current batch of colorant is stronger or weaker than the material used in the
original formula, and projects the color difference between the two lots of colorant, when they
are at equal strength. This information helps you to determine if the concentration of colorant(s)
in a formula needs to be adjusted to reflect differences in the raw materials.
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The strength of a colorant is defined only in reference to another colorant that has identical
colorimetric and physical properties. In order for the strength evaluation to be meaningful, you
must prepare your samples in a uniform fashion, keeping in mind the following points:
• The samples are usually finished samples of your product, such as a dyed fabric or a coating
applied to a substrate.
• Colorant strength should only be evaluated using samples that contain a single colorant.
• The samples prepared for a strength evaluation should contain a fixed percentage of the
colorant. For pigments, it is mixed with a standardized white paste. For dyes, the solution used
should be standardized.
• All of the ingredients in both the standard and the batch should come from the same lots of
materials except for the colorant. When this procedure is used, there can be only one source for
the differences between the samples: the different lots of colorant.
There are several methods available in the program for evaluating strength. Some of the
evaluation options use the spectral data of the samples to perform the calculation while others
work from colorimetric data.
% Strength SWL (Single Wavelength) : The strength evaluation is based on the spectral
data for a single wavelength, as default the wavelength of maximum absorption. It is the
wavelength with the lowest %R value (the highest K/S value). This is the area of the spectrum
where the colorant absorbs the most light and is a valid indicator of strength. This is one of the
most common methods used for strength comparisons. The wavelength selection is made by the
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program, and is based on the reflectance or transmittance curve of the standard. The user can
determine the wavelength to be used for evaluation also.
% Strength SUM (Average) : This method calculates strength based on the sum of the K/S
values across the visible spectrum.
% Strength WSUM (Weighted) : This method uses K/S weighted at each wavelength by the
integrated Illuminant/Observer data. Separate Integ values are calculated for the standard and
batch. By weighting the K/S values by the Standard Observer functions and the Illuminant, the
results may better correlate with your visual evaluation of the sample than does either SWL or
SUM methods.
Whiteness Indices
Whiteness indices are available in ColorXP, which are used by the textile, paper and plastics
industries to evaluate the following:
• The whiteness of the material
• The presence of optical brighteners
• The effect of optical brighteners on the whiteness of the materials
If you want to add a sample from database please click Add From Database button, else if you
want to measure the sample please click Measure Sample button.
Some of the whiteness indices included in the program (e.g., CIE Whiteness) are used by
multiple industries. However, each industry has selected a Standard procedure to be used for
the evaluation. When using the whiteness evaluations in the program, you should make the
service calibration of instrument carefully to insure that you are performing it correctly. If you do
not, your results will not be valid.
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Yellowness Indices
Yellowness Indices are Any of several numerical indices of the degree of departure from a
preferred white reflecting material or colorless transparent material towards yellow. You can
obtain ASTM D1925-70 and ASTM E313-73 Yellowness Indice values of the samples by ColorXP.
Metamerism Indice
Metamerism is a phenomenon exhibited by a pair of colors that only match under one set of
viewing conditions. Each sample has the same tristimulus values for a described set of viewing
conditions (i.e. illuminant, observer, geometry of illumination and viewing), but have different
spectral curves. When any of the viewing conditions (the light source, the observer, the
orientation of the sample) are changed, the samples no longer appear to match, and are said to
be metameric. You can obtain metamerism indice value of a pair of samples by ColorXP.
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Brightness Indice (R457)
The diffuse blue reflectance factor (ISO brightness) is calculated from radiance factor data
according to a special set of weighting factors. These weighting factors define a function with an
effective wavelength of 457 nm. You can calculate R457 Brightness value for D65/10° by
ColorXP.
Color Inconstancy
Meamerism is the phenomenon by which the colors of two materials match under some lighting
conditions, but not under other lighting conditions. The metamerism indice was established to
help quantify that difference using instrumental measurements and a simple mathematical
calculation. The larger the metamerism indice calculated for two items, the bigger the color
difference between them under two illuminants of interest.
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Whereas metamerism indice is calculated to show difference between two items under two
different lighting conditions, Color Inconstancy Indice is determined for one single item.
Color Inconstancy (sometimes called flare) indicates the degree to which the appearance of a
sample’s color change when the light source (illuminant) changed. Like metamerism indice Color
Inconstancy may be determined by measuring the sample with an instrument under a test
illuminant and then performing mathematical calculations. In this case, a complex chromatic
adaptation transformation is used to predict the color values for a corresponding color that looks
same under a second illuminant. Then if the color values under the two different illuminants are
different, the total color difference between them can be used as a measure of the color
inconstancy for that sample under the two selected illuminants.
You can obtain colorimetric value comparisons of the single sample at different illuminants by
using of this module.
Opacity
The opacity of a material is an indication of how much light passes through the material. The
higher the opacity, the lower the amount of light that can pass through the material. Opacity is
calculated by ColorXP, from reflectance mesurements of the material with a black backing (with
black Standard) and the material with a white backing (with white Standard).
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Gray Scale – Staining Evaluation
The transference of color from the test sample to an adjacent sample is evaluated in a manner
very similar to that of gray scale change evaluation. Five Standard pairs are used. One half of
each Standard is white, and the second half ranges from white (no staining) to a gray with the
chroma value of the test sample. A value of 5 corresponds to virtually no staining, whereas 1
indicates poor color-fastness.
Staining evaluation is based on ISO 105-A04, Textiles-Tests for Colour Fastness, Part A04:
Method for the Instrumental Assessment of the Degree of Staining of Adjacent Fabrics. It may
be used in assessing any samples except those which have been treated with fluorescent
whitening agents or fluorescent dyes. The preferred illuminant/observer conditions are D65/10°.
C/2° is also permitted by the test method.
Gray Scale – Color Change Evaluation
The loss of color using the gray change scale is evaluated by comparison of five pairs of gray
standards. One half of each Standard is always of identical chroma to the starting sample. The
second half ranges from the starting chroma (no loss of color) to white (loss of all color). The
amount of contrast between the treated and untreated fabric is related to one of the Standard
pairs to yield the gray scale rating. On this scale 5 indicates that next to no color was lost, and 1
indicates that most color was lost.
Color Change Evaluation is based on ISO 105-A05, Textiles-Tests for Colour Fastness, Part A05:
Instrumental Assessment of Change in Colour for Determination of Gray Scale Rating. It may be
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used in assessing any samples except those which have been treated with fluorescent whitening
agents or fluorescent dyes. The preferred illuminant/observer conditions are D65/10°. C/2° and
C/10° are also permitted by the test method.
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RECIPE MENU
Recipe Calculation
You can calculate dyeing recipes of standard samples by using this module.
For calculate a recipe for a standard please do the following:
1. If your Standard is already measured, click to Select Standard button, else click to Measure
Standard button to take measurement from the instrument.
2. From 1st Dye-Set drop-down list select dye-set you want to use for calculation. If your
material contains more than one fibre you can write percentage of first fiber at % field. If
you input here lower than 100 the second dye-set row will be appear. Select second dye-set
from the drop-down list. You can calculate for up to 3 fibres as this. After selection you will
see existed dyes of dye-set at right of the screen.
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3. From Dyes List select dyes you want to use in calculations. You can use Ctrl and Shift keys
during selection. You can select up to 20 dyes.
4. You can change Max.DE value from the drop-down list. This value indicates which recipes
will be shown. If the DE value of calculated recipe is lower than this value recipe will be
shown, otherwise not shown.
5. Click to Calculate Recipe button and please wait for the calculation.
6. After calculation is done you will see possible recipes list.
7. You can see combinations, concentrations, DE, MI and Cost values of the recipes at this
table. For ordering table to DE, MI or Cost values, please click to column captions. When
you select a recipe please click to Show Recipe button. Details of Calculated Recipe screen
will be shown.
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8. If you planning to make corrections after dyeing, you must save recipe to database by click
to Save Recipe button. When you click to button you will be prompted by a dialog box.
Please define a name for the recipe and click OK button. Now you can calculate the
correction recipe after dyeing.
9. You can see at this screen 6 tabs. At the Selected Recipe tab the selected recipe, DE value,
Metamerism Indice and Cost values are shown.
10. You can check the Color Differences at related tab. You can also change the selected color
difference formula.
11. If you need to see Colorimetric values of the recipe click to Colorimetric Values tab.
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12. You can see Reflectance Graph, CIELab Graph and Chromaticity Diagram also by clicking to
related tabs.
13. Now you calculated the recipe…
Correction Recipe Calculation
When you perform dyeing with calculated recipe, if resulted color is not satisfactory, you can
calculate the correction recipe for the laboratory. For this you must save calculated recipe to
database described previously.
For calculate a correction recipe please do the following:
1. When you select the Correction Recipe Calculation menu you will see the Saved Recipes
screen, shown below.
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2. In this screen, select the recipe will be corrected from the list and click Show/Correct Recipe
button. You can double-click to row also to perform this. The Correction Recipe Calculation
screen will be shown.
3. Click to Measure Sample button to take measurement for the sample dyed with this recipe.
If you measured the sample already you can select from database also.
4. Now, click to calculate Correction Recipe button. If DE value of the selected sample is lower
or equal to 0.5 this button is inactive, because there is no correction is necessary. After
calculation you will see the corrected recipe.
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5. If you click to Save Recipe to Archive button, the dyed recipe will be saved to database as
archive recipe. When a recipe saved to archive, program can be use this recipe for recipe
searching.
Addition Recipe Calculation
If you have a color which is incorrect shade in bulk production, you can use Addition Recipe
module. Please do not forget; for succesful addition recipe, your incorrect color must be lighter
than target color. Generally addition recipe may not succesful when your incorrect color is
darker than target color.
For calculate an addition recipe please do the following:
1. Select or measure your target sample.
2. Select or measure the sample will be over-dyed.
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3. Select dye-set from the drop-down list. Then you can select dyes from the list. Use Ctrl or
Shift keys for multi-selection.
4. Now click to Calculate Recipe button and wait. Possible recipes will be shown in table.
5. After calculation you can see details of the recipe by double-click to related row or click to
Show Recipe button. When you select recipe and click to Show Recipe button, the Details
screen will be shown.
6. Now you can use this addition recipe in the laboratory trial or directly in bulk production.
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Manual Recipe Building
You can manually build your recipes by using of the ColorXP Manual Recipe Building module. In
summary, you can input a recipe (dyes and concentrations) and see the color.
For build a manual recipe, please do the following:
1. Select or measure a standard (target color).
2. Select Dye-Set
3. Select dyes from related drop-down lists. You can use up to 4 dyes for recipe.
4. Write the concentrations to related fields.
5. Click Calculate Recipe button.
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6. Now you can see all colorimetric values, comparison against Standard and predicted
reflectance graph.
7. You can increase (with + option) or decrease (with – option) the concentrations of the dyes
by clicking to %1, %5 and %10 buttons. When you click these buttons, the new recipe will
be automatically calculated. Also you can change directly concentration value at text field.
When you change concentration by keyboard, you need click to Calculate Recipe button.
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DYE-GROUPS (DYE-SETS) MENU
You must load dyes first, for recipe calculation. The program need samples dyed with different
concentrations of a dye, to know the dye. Necessary samples are listed below:
• Blind Dyed Sample : This is a sample (for example, a fabric) which is processed with dyeing
conditions without dye.
• Set of Dyeings : These are samples dyed with different concentrations of each dye (for
example 0.01%, 0.02%, 0.1%, 0.5%, 1%, 2%, …).
To prepare a dye-set please do the following:
(For example, we have Reactive Dyes for Cotton which are named Yellow Dye, Red Dye and
Blue Dye, and we want to prepare a dye-set on 100% Cotton fabric.)
1. First we must specify the concentrations of the dyeings. A possible series can be like this;
0.001%, 0.005%, 0.01%, 0.05%, 0.1%, 0.5%, 1%, 2%, 3%, 4%.
2. Now, please make 0% dyeing (blind dyeing) on 100% Cotton Fabric. Its mean is a dyeing
under normal dyeing conditions but without any dye. This is necessary for know effect of
the process on color of the fabric. Next, we will call this sample as SUBSTRATE.
3. Please make dyeings of Yellow Dye with specified concentrations (you will be obtain 10
yellow dyed samples for series above).
4. Please make dyeings of Red Dye with specified concentrations (you will be obtain 10 red
dyed samples for series above).
5. Please make dyeings of Blue Dye with specified concentrations (you will be obtain 10 blue
dyed samples for series above).
6. Now you finished the preparation and you have 31 samples. These 3 samples are your dye-
set.
After finishing of the all dyeings, you must create a dye-group, create dyes and load these
dyeings to dye-group. You can load up to 50 dyeings for each dye in ColorXP.
For create and load dye-group, please do the following:
1. Click to Dye-Groups (Dye-Sets) menu button from the ColorXP desktop.
2. Dye-Groups window will be shown.
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3. Click New Set button, the window shown below appears.
4. Write Dye-Set Name to related field. Dye-Set Name is a string that identify the dye-group.
For example : 100% COTTON WARM DYES
5. Select Dye-Class from the drop-down list. If the list is empty or you cannot find dye-class in
the list, you can add a new one by clicking to Add New button near the Dye-Class drop-
down list. This option is only for information, if it is wrong the calculations does not
affected.
6. Select Group Hue from the drop-down list. If the list is empty or you cannot find hue in the
list, you can add a new one by clicking to Add New button near the Group Hue drop-down
list. This option is only for information, if it is wrong the calculations does not affected.
7. Select Dyeing Method from the drop-down list one of the options Exhaust (%) or Continuous
(g/L). If you select wrong method, you can see wrong unit in recipes.
8. If your substrate is measured already, please select it from database by clicking to Select
Substrate button, else to take measurement from the instrument click to Measure Substrate.
If you will take measurement do not forget to define a suitable name for the substrate.
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9. When the selections is finished you must see screen shown below.
10. If you are sure all informations are correct click to Save button. You will be prompted to
make certain of your choices, if you are sure select Yes button, otherwise select No button
to change informations.
11. When you select Yes button, the Dye-Groups Window is shown as below.
12. If you want to edit informations saved please click to Group Informations button. You
cannot change Dye-Set Name only.
13. Now, please click to Dyes button to define the dyes of the group when related row is
selected. You wil be see the screen shown below.
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14. Click to Add New button to create a dye.
- Write the name of the dye to Name field (for example; Yellow Dye)
- Write the price of the dye to Price field. You must use same currency. If you use different
currencies, cost calculations will be wrong.
- Minimum Usage Concentration : The program do not use this dye in the calculated recipes
below than this concentration, if you input here a value greater than zero. If you input zero,
the program will show you all possible concentrations of this dye.
- Maximum Usage Concentration : The program do not use this dye in the calculated recipes
above than this concentration, if you input here a value greater than zero. If you input zero,
the program will show you all possible concentrations of this dye.
- Please select suitable Color Description from the drop-down list. This option using by the
program for the ordering of the dyes in recipes. Default ordering is as: White, Yellow,
Orange, Pink, Red, Bordeaux, Brown, Violet, Blue, Turquoise, Gren, Navy, Gray and Black.
Now, click to Save button and confirm the question. The Yellow Dye will be saved.
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15. Replicate step 14, for the Red Dye and Blue Dye. After all 3 dyes are saved you must see
this screen:
16. If you want to edit dye informations saved please click to Informations button. You can
change all informations about dye.
17. Select the Yellow Dye from the list by mouse and click to Calibration Dyeings button.
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18. Now you will add measurements of samples, dyed with Yellow Dye. If you are already
measured the samples you can add them by clicking Add Dyeing from Database button.
When you click this button, list of available samples will be shown.
If you plan measure the samples before than creating dye-set, please write
concentration after name with a space character, like Yellow Dye 0.05
Please select the related measurements from the list.You can use Ctrl and Shift keys while
selecting.
After selection is finished click to Select button. When you made this the program will be ask
to you concentration value of the dyeing.
If you define the concentration value of the dyeing at the last of the name, the program
suggest you this value automatically as above, otherwise you must input the cncentration
value. The program ask you the concentration value for each selected measurement.
If you need to measure the samples please follow to step 19.
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19. Click to Measure Calibration Dyeing button, measure the sample, input concentration value
to related field and approve the measurement. Replicate this step for each sample.
20. After all calibration dyeings are selected and/or measured you must see the screen shown
below.
In the table you can see (!) or (?) characters. Its mean is these dyeings have a little problem
for the curve fitting, these characters shown depends on some mathematical calculations for
the best fitting. If Concentration vs K/S Graph is good please do not take in he consideration
these characters.
21. Now you can check Wavelengh-%Reflectance, Wavelength-K/S and Concentration-K/S
graphs by clicking to related tab.
22. The most important tab is Concentration vs K/S Graph.
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On principle, you must see a lineer line, but beacuse the limitations of the theory, generally
it is not possible for darker shades. However, you must see a regular curve, otherwise result
of recipe calculations will not be accurate. Regular and irregular curve samples are shown
below.
If any of the dyeings is not suitable please select it from the list at Calibration Dyeings tab
and click to Delete Selected from Table button to remove it from the calibration series.
23. If the curve is fitted click to Save Dyeings button, if you sure to save click to Yes button in
the message box.
24. Now you can see the color of the Yellow Dye in the list.
25. Please replicate steps 17-24 for Red and Blue Dyes. After load all dyeings you must see the
screen like shown below.
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26. You are complete of the creating dye-group now.
27. If you want to delete one of the dyes, select its row and click to Delete button. Are you sure
to delete please select Yes at the message box. If there is any recipe saved with this dye
you cannot delete the dye.
28. Sample Concentration-K/S Graphs for Red and Blue Dyes are shown below.
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ARCHIVE RECIPES MENU
If you were saved recipes to database you can search or view your recipe archive for a target
color. You can input your existed recipes also. For this you can use the Archive Recipes module.
To input an existing recipe, view a saved recipe or perform searching from the archive, please
click to Archive Recipes menu button at the ColorXP desktop.
When you click this button the Saved Recipes in Archive screen apperars.
Inputting an Existing Recipe
1. Click to New Archive Recipe button (Archive Recipe Input screen appears).
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2. Select or measure the color of the recipe.
3. Select the dye-set of the recipe from the 1st drop-down list. If your material contains more
than 1 fibre please input percentage of the 1st fibre to related field. When you input 1st
percentage below then 100, 2nd row will be appears. You can use this feature up to 3
fibres. Depends o the fibre count you can see recipe rows below the window.
4. In the name of the Archive Recipe text field please define a name for the recipe.
5. If you want, from Material drop-down list select name of the material (for selection you
must be defined the materials before).
6. Select your dyes from related drop-down lists and write the concentrations of the related
dyes to fields. After these data were input you must see acreen likes below.
7. Now, please click to Save Recipe button to save the recipe to database. You will be
prompted with this dialog box.
8. Click OK, you are finished the saving of the recipe now.
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Viewing of Saved Recipe
1. Easily double-click to table, or click to Show Recipe button after the selection of related row
at the Saved Recipes in Archive screen. Details of Archive Recipe window will be appeared.
You can see Wavelength-%Reflectance Graph and Colorimetric Values of the archive color
by clicking to related tabs. You can save reflectance values of the recipe color as sample to
database by clicking to Save as Sample button at WL-%R Graph tab.
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Searching in the Archive
1. Click to Search Archive button after the selection of related row at the Saved Recipes in
Archive screen. Color Search in Archive window will be appeared.
2. Select or measure the target sample first.
Color Difference Formula : Select difference formula for the calculation, the DE value
between target and archive colors.
Illuminant : Select main illuminant for the DE calculation
Met.Illuminant : Select metamerism illuminant for the calculation of the Metamerism Index
between target and archive colors.
Observer : Standard obsever angle for the using in difference calculations.
Material : If you want you can be specified your search for a material. If –All Materials-
selected, serach will performd for all type of materials.
Max.DE : You must define the maximum DE difference for the searching. For example, if you
define 5 value for this option, the program will be search the archive and shows you recipes
have DE value below 5.
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3. Now click to Start Search button. After searching is finished, the program will be show you
the screen likes shown below.
4. Click to OK button. Now you can see the suitable recipes in your archive against your search
settings. There are 2 recipes in the archive above sample.
5. If you double-click to a table row, you can reach to recipe of this row.
6. If you select a row from the table and click to Show Quality Control button you can see color
differences between target and archive colors (Quality Control Module) as like as shown
below.
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FILE OPERATIONS MENU
Saved Samples
You can manage your measured and saved samples with this module. When you click to this
menu the Saved Samples screen will be shown.
In the table, Temporary column shows the status of the record. Meaning of N (No) character is
record is not temporary (it is permanent), and meaning of Y (Yes) is record is temporary, in this
column. Permanent records never will be deleted, but the temporary records will be deleted en
of the life-time defined in Program Setup.
If you want to delete any of records, please select row(s) and click to Delete Selected from List
button to delete from the current database. You can select one or more rows to delete. If you
want to select more than one rows please use Shift or Ctrl key.
If you want to see and/or print informations (such as reflectance values and graph) you can
double-click to related row or click to Show Card button after selecting of row. With this way you
will be see the Measurement Card of the sample.
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In this window, you can change the record status of the sample. If you want to mark the sample
as permanent please uncheck the Temporary checkbox. If you want to mark the sample as
temporary please check the temporary checkbox.
You can print the measurement card also by click to Print Card button.
Saved Materials
You must save your materials, if you want to use in the recipe archive for example. The main
appearance of the window is shown below.
For adding of the material, please click to Add New button, then write the name or style name
or code of the material to text field, select the Active option and click to Save button. When you
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select Yes at the message box, the material will be saved and you can see it in the Saved
Materials table.
You cannot delete a saved material but you can hide in the program at drop-down lists by
change its Usage Status to Passive. By this way, the material will not be deleted but you never
see in drop-down selection lists. You can see the usage status of the material in In Usage
column. Meaning of Y is: the material will be showed, and the N is: the material will not be
showed in the drop-down lists.
For editing of a material please double-click to its row, then you will be see the name and the
usage status of it in the related fields. Then change any information what you want, click to
Update button.
Manual Sample Input (to Database)
You can input a sample to database manually by using of reflectance values, tristimulus values
(XYZ) or CIE values (Lab or LCh). There are 4 types of Manual Sample Input.
• Reflectance values
• X, Y and Z tristimulus values
• CIE Lab values
• CIE LCh values
Write a name for the sample to Sample Name field. If you want you can write Customer or
Description informations to related fields. If you know the measurement status of the values,
please select suitable option from Specular, UV and Plate/Lens drop-down lists, if you do not
know the status please select X-Unknown options. If you want to save as temporary check the
Save as Temporary checkbox, if not uncheck.
Manual Sample Input by using of Reflectance Values: Click to Reflectance Values option from the Type of the Values group.
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Select suitable option for the your wavelength range from the Checksum group. When you make
selection, suitable text fields will be shown. Please write you reflectance values to related fields.
You can see the Checksum value of your input at the Checksum label for the control of input.
Click Save button to save sample to database. Now, you can use this sample in the program.
Manual Sample Input by using of XYZ (Tristimulus) Values: Click to Tristimulus Values (XYZ) option from the Type of the Values group.
Select suitable illuminant and observer conditions of your XYZ values and write the X, Y and Z
values to related text fields. Click Save button to save sample to database. Now, you can use
this sample in the program.
Manual Sample Input by using of CIE Lab Values: Click to CIE Values (L*a*b*) option from the Type of the Values group.
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Select suitable illuminant and observer conditions of your L*a*b* values and write the L*, a*
and b* values to related text fields. Click Save button to save sample to database. Now, you can
use this sample in the program.
Manual Sample Input by using of CIE LCh Values: Click to CIE Values (L*C*h°) option from the Type of the Values group.
Select suitable illuminant and observer conditions of your L*C*h° values and write the L*, C*
and h° values to related text fields. Click Save button to save sample to database. Now, you can
use this sample in the program.
Import File
Import Reflectance File
This option allows you to import a sample (or samples) by using its (their) reflectance data.
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Please select your file location by clicking to button with magnifier icon. You can import files
have .exp, .dat and .qtx extensions. If the selected file have correct structure you will see the
contents of the file in the Samples list. If you import all contents of the file you can select the
Select All button. You can use Shift or Ctrl keys for special selection.
Now you can click Import button to save all selected samples to database. You will see the
progress bar during process, on the File to be Imported label.
Import Dye-Set File
This option allows you to import a dye-set, if the file have suitable structure. The file must be
contains, minimum 1 substrate and reflectance series of the minimum 1 dye. Name format for
the series must be like: Yellow Dye 0.01, Yellow Dye 0.05, … Please select your file location by
clicking to button with magnifier icon. You can import files have .exp, .dat and .qtx extensions.
If the selected file have correct structure you will see the contents of the file separated to
Substrates and Dyes lists. If you import all contents of the file you can select the Select All
button. If you are creating a new dye-set, you must select 1 substrate and 1 dye at least.
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You can use Shift or Ctrl keys for special selection of the dyes.
If you are creating a new dye-set, write a name to identify the imported dye-set to Dye-Set
Name field, otherwise if you want to import the dyes to an existing dye-set please check the
Add to Existing Dye-Set checkbox, then select existing dye-set from the drop-down list.
Select Dyeing Method from he Dyeing Method drop-down list, one of the Continuous or Exhaust.
Select Dye-Class from the Dye Class drop-down list. If you cannot find the class you want, you
can save it by clicking to Add New button below of the Dye-Class drop-down list.
Select Group Hue from the Group Hue drop-down list. If you cannot find the hue you want, you
can save it by clicking to Add New button below of the Group Hue drop-down list.
If there is any characters to be omitted in the file, you can write them to related field.
Now you can click Import button to create a dye-set or add dyes to existing dye-set with all
selected substrate and dyes. You will see the progress bar during process, on the File to be
Imported label. You must define the Color Descriptions of the dyes (such as Yellow, Red, Blue)
for ordering at Dye-Groups menu button at ColorXP desktop, after the import operation. If you
omit this, dyes will be random ordered in the lists.
Export File
Export Reflectance File
This option allows you to export a sample (or samples) by using its (their) reflectance data.
Please select directory for exported file by clicking to button with magnifier icon. You can export
the file with .exp, .dat or .qtx extensions (with their own structures). Please select one of these
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options from the Export Type group, you want. Write a name for the exported file and click to
Export button. You will see the progress bar during process, on the Path of the Exported File
label.
Now you can use and/or send your exported files which are created at the selected directory.
Export Dye-Set File
This option allows you to export a dye-set.
Please select directory for exported file by clicking to button with magnifier icon. You can export
the file with .exp, .dat or .qtx extensions (with their own structures). Please select one of these
options from the Export Type group, you want. Write a name for the exported file.
Select a Dye-Set from the Saved Dye-Sets list, then select the dyes from the Dyes list which you
want to export. If you plan to export all dyes in the list, click to Select All button.
Please click to Export button. You will see the progress bar during process, on the Path of the
Exported File label. Now you can use and/or send your exported files which are created at the
selected directory.
User-Defined Illuminants
You can create new iluminants with ColorXP by using of this menu.
You must know some informations about the illuminant to add it to database.
• 2° Color Matching Functions ( zyx ,, ) of the Illuminant (360 to 750 nm with 10 nm interval)
• 10° Color Matching Functions ( zyx ,, ) of the Illuminant (360 to 750 nm with 10 nm
interval)
• Hunter Ka and Kb values of the illuminant for 2° and 10° observer angles.
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When you select this menu the User-Defined Illuminants screen will be shown.
If you create illuminants before, you can see them in the list, otherwise the list is empty.
Click to Add New button to create a new illuminant.
Easily, write a name for the illuminant (we suggest maximum 8 characters) to related field, and
write the values to related fields, and click to Save button to save the illuminant to database.
You can use this illuminant in the color evaluations now.
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About ColorXP Menu
When you click to this menu you can see the status of the program and contact information of
us.
About ColorXP screen of the unactivated program is shown below.
Click to Activate button to view the Activation module and apply activation procedure as
described before.
About ColorXP screen of the activated program is shown below.
When the program is activated, you cannot see the Activate button, because the program is
activated. You can see your license code.
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PROGRAM SETUP MENU
Database
Create Empty Database
You can work with many different databases. You can create new and empty databases by
using of this menu. When you select this menu the Save As dialog box of Windows will be
shown. Please select the path and define a name for the new database and click to Save button.
The new database is created and marked as current database.
Select Database
You can change your current database by using of this menu. When you click this menu, the
Open dialog box of Windows will be shown. Easily find your database and click to Open button.
You can change current database by double-clicking to database label on the ColorXP desktop.
Users
You can define different users with different authorizations. When select the Users menu the
Users screen will be shown.
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Click to New button for define new user. The New User screen will be shown.
Write the User Name and the password to related text fields. Select one of the user type
between Administrator and User. If you select Administrator option all of authorizations will be
selected. If you select User option all of authorizations will be cleared. Check or uncheck
checkbox of authorizations what you want. If you select User option some of authorizations will
be disabled to selection.
When you finish checking of authorizations click to Save button. You are created new user.
For edit a user, click to Edit button at the Users screen. Informations of the user will be shown.
Make changes and click to Update button.
You must define a user as administrator and have all authorizations. So, we suggest that please do not change or delete the ColorXP user. If you want to create limitations to a user please create a new user with limited authorizations.
Changing Password of the Current User
For change password of the current user please double-click to User label on the ColorXP
desktop.
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When you double-clicked to label, the Change Password screen will be shown.
Write necessary informations to relaed fields and click to Update button to change password of
the current user.
Program Setup
The Program Setup of the ColorXP described before. Please check involved section.
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EXIT PROGRAM MENU
Exit Program
Click this menu for close the program.
Change User
Click this menu for change current user. When you select this menu the Login screen appears.
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