X-RITE Color iMatch 10

Color Matching and Formulation Software for Plastics, Paint and Textiles

X-RITE Color iMatch is an intuitive, job-oriented color formula management and quality control software for the paint, plastic, textile, and building material industries. Using industry-leading multi-flux technology, it intelligently processes color data to provide optimal initial color matches and reduce wasteful formulation attempts. Color iMatch has the power to help lab managers and formulation professionals streamline complicated workflows, improve formulation efficiency, and reduce wasted time and materials.

Benefits:

• Increase initial match rate by up to 50% and cut correction steps in half with the industry’s smartest multi-flux engine that identifies the best candidate formulas, provides specific formulation guidance, and incorporates leftover materials to work off waste.
• Easily transition existing customer data and improve database performance by identifying opportunities to enhance the value of legacy color data using the built-in Color Assortment Editor.
• Visually evaluate achievability using the Gamut Viewer, which offers a unique target overlay to help make educated formulation decisions.
• Directionally adjust formulations to reduce process and material variations that occur between laboratory and production.
• Quickly move between jobs by applying dynamic Formulation Rules that include process, material and customer specifications.

X-RITE Color iMatch is available in a variety of configurations to help you effectively formulate color and efficiently utilize your staff, processes, and tools throughout the supply chain. Color iMatch is PantoneLIVE-enabled for easy access to the most up-to-date digital color standards. It is compatible with current and future Microsoft Operating Systems and offers support for X-Rite and non-X-Rite instruments.

With so many requests for innovative bases, transparency, and special effects, formulating color for paint, coating, and plastic applications can be a challenge. To keep up, formulation software needs to be innovative, too.

X-RITE Color iMatch Industrial Applications

X-RITE Color iMatch, uses a single mathematical model that is adapted for a wide variety of applications.  

Paints and Coatings

In the past, the Kubelka-Munk model used in X-Rite’s ColorMaster software was the formulation performance benchmark in opaque paints and coatings. However, the next generation multi-flux engine in Color iMatch is equal to or exceeds the performance of Kubelka-Munk, plus offers additional formulation advantages depending on the type of paint base.

• Capable of formulating coatings in bases other than clear by extending the clear base assortment with a few additional calibration panels.
• Treats alternative bases (usually white) like additional toners with the pure alternative base and mixes of alternative base with black toner calibration panels.]
• Can build assortments using any non-opaque base. Fully opaque bases cannot be used because the multi-flux engine requires calibration panels with at least minimum transparency.

Plastics

For plastics, the formulation performance benchmark is the previous version of the multi-flux engine in X-RITE Color iMatch. All of the enhancements to this generation engine improve correction performance, with a few significant improvements.

• Ensures correct pigmentation in the best-ranked recipe using the new sorting metric.
• Achieves color matching with fewer iteration steps. Each subsequent trial reduces the Delta E value toward the target until production process accuracy is achieved.