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BYK Gardner Seminar: The Perfect Triple
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ow to ensure that colour always matches visual perception
management throughout an entire supply chain. For the first time,
using objective measuring instruments? In a recent one-day
digital standards can be exchanged between benchtop and portable
in-person seminar, BYK Gardner gave industry professionals the
instruments, without any extra profiling.
opportunity to go over the fundamentals of colour theory together with the latest innovations.
spectro2guide – Touch the colour
On Thursday, 14 July at the Hotel Parma&Congressi, Pasquale Roberti,
The ideal counterpart to color2view when a portable spectrophotometer
Sales Manager Italy at BYK Gardner Service Point Italy, discussed the
is needed. It offers the same innovative measurement methods for
following topics in front of an audience of around fifty people from
checking colour, gloss, and fluorescence characteristics and thus predict
various industrial sectors, from automotive and motor vehicles to raw
colour stability. It combines top performance with simple, user-friendly
materials and paints:
operation.
• Visual assessment of colour - Influence of lighting quality • Colour uniformity - Colour and gloss fundamentals
Seminar agenda
• Colour stability - Lightfastness prediction
• Colorimetry basics: illuminants, observers, colorimetric scales,
• Special - Reliable BLACK measurements
measurement geometry
• More specifically, Roberti presented the BYK Gardner instruments that
• Visual assessment of solid colours: the byko-spectra light booth family
form the “perfect triangle” for effective colour measurement.
• Systems of colour equations for realistic tolerances: CIELab and weighted colour systems
byko-spectra Pro – Seeing the world the right way
• Introducing spectro2guide and color2view
This is the benchmark tool for visual colour assessment. Its innovative
• Fluorescence: what is fluorescence and how its decay affects colour
combination of LED and halogen lighting guarantees a quality level never
stability
seen before with the CIE A class, making it possible to see the world in
• Predicting fluorescence decay with s2g and c2v:
the right light.
• New fluorescence indices • Practical demonstration with smart-chart software
New color2view - The revolution in colour measurement
• Jetness: how to measure the deepest blacks
continues
• Introducing spectro2guide Pro.
By combining several measurement methods, color2view acts as an objective eye that assesses our visual impressions as a whole. Its revolutionary technical performance ensures seamless global colour
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For further information: www.www.byk-instruments.com
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