Datacolor Showcases Leading Global Color Management Solutions At ITMA 2007

Munich, Germany - Datacolor, the global leader in digital color management technology for over 35 years, recently showcased its latest version of the SPECTRUM family of solutions at the International Exhibition of Textile Machinery (ITMA) in Munich, Germany.

Attendees witnessed a live running integration of complex production recipes with a dye machine supervisor system at a different location through the Internet.

"Shorter lead times, cost savings, tighter quality demands and increased productivity are key issues for suppliers," said Terry Downes, chief executive officer of Datacolor. "Our proven color management solutions for the retail apparel and automotive industry address these issues and add significant value to managing the complex global sourcing process. Our team offers customers deep understanding of industry processes, and our products have been embraced by both manufacturers and sourcing specifiers as critical tools for managing color."

Germany-based PENN Elastic, a member of the DOGI Group, used Datacolor solutions to complete dye house automation with an increase of production capacity by 30% without adding any costly production machinery. Additionally, a PENN Elastic project performance study revealed that the number of re-dyes and additions have been reduced significantly, and first-time production can now be accurately delivered 85 percent of the time.

Datacolor solutions enable both established and emerging market customers to be globally competitive. Several dye-house customers have been able to gain awareness from large retail and apparel brands for their sourcing capabilities immediately after they modernized with Datacolor solutions. Datacolor is also the only company to roll out dependable global color communication programs for the automotive industry, and leading brands such as BMW, Audi and Porsche utilize Datacolor SPECTRUM solutions for color management.

"Apparel specifiers and automotive manufacturers are searching for supply chain partners that can react quickly and without compromises to their high-level needs," says Eric Alho, Product Marketing Manager from Datacolor's Swiss operation. "Datacolor is uniquely focused on providing open-ended solutions that can be integrated to other's products to best serve these customers." The following products included in Datacolor SPECTRUM were on display in the booth:

• Datacolor ENVISION provides calibrated, precise on-screen color samples, complete with detailed images and texture to produce life-like product simulations as a substitute for physical samples.
• Datacolor Spyder2 is a dynamic color calibration product that can be used to calibrate any computer monitor display or laptop.
• Datacolor TOOLS sets the standard for comprehensive color quality control by creating color measurement files, generating customized reports and giving users the ability to share data with other SPECTRUM products. TOOLS, together with the individual QC modules of Datacolor SORT and MONITOR demonstrates deep understanding of customer needs, including adapted solutions.
• Datacolor TRACK streamlines color communication and approval of digital samples.
• Datacolor CONDITIONER ensures color samples are consistent by conditioning them at fixed temperature and humidity prior to measurement.
• Datacolor 600 is a high-precision, close-tolerance, reference grade spectrophotometer with special capabilities to handle fluorescent materials.
• Datacolor MAESTRO is a simple but effective software tool that controls performance and correlates spectrophotometers with the Datacolor master reference instrument, reducing the number of submissions needed for color approval.
• Datacolor MATCHTEXTILE is the most popular color matching software at all levels of dye houses and dyestuff manufacturers.
• Datacolor PROCESS closes the often missing link between excellent laboratory color recipes and the production environment. Dyers' expert-level-know-how is used to create batch tickets for even the most unique dyeing process according to individual customer needs, optimized by time and cost.
• Datacolor AHIBA IR is designed to simulate all aspects of the production dyeing process, optimizing the correlation between laboratory recipes and production recipes in order to significantly reduce the time required to bring finished goods to market.

SOURCE: Datacolor