After receiving approval for entering the certification program, you will have the opportunity to describe your production goals and how you plan to implement ChromaChecker throughout your organization. You will first complete the onboarding of the system and define the current state of your color production environment.

Next, you will review and demonstrate a mastery of your production environment and the ability to produce repeatable targeted color reproduction defined by your organization's tolerance standards. This includes the analysis of print, instrumentation, and color matching by describing how your best practice is addressing targeting color standards, instrument ISO verification reporting, substrate, lighting, G7 compliance, and environmental controls.

In addition, Benchmarking will be used to determine the stability of printing devices as well as workflows will be reviewed by describing best practices for process control, ICC Profiling, and Curve generation as appropriate for the production manufacturing goals. 

On completion of this basic program, you will have a fully functioning Color Conformance Production environment.  

Requirements for Basic Certification:

• Submit and receive approval for a proposed "Use Case" - Provide in the Application or email
• Configure ChromaChecker with a minimum of 1 instrument, 1 light booth, and two matching print devices within the defined E-Factor and Process Control metric - Print Inspector
• Configure ChromaChecker with a minimum of 3 Operators, 1 Top Manager, and 1 Operational Manager 
• Use ChromaChecker Uploader and/or Capture to provide measurement data using a Best Practice and defined SOP
• Configure management reports for Operators, Management, and Top Management
• Define and complete a “Printer Benchmark” for one printer
• Limit ( hide) unwanted Measurement Tasks for Operators
• Create a Color Library using QuickChecker and Color Inspector
• Print Labels for identifying the Quality Control check
• Generate G7 Curves to Local Folder in a format for your workflow
• Generate an ICC profile using a TC1617 chart for an identified press-load into ICC Profile Inspector
• Provide an analysis using color consistency, scalability, and profitability reports
• Provide a measurement file meeting the tolerance for the Onboarding G7 Project - Shared Project
• Develop a presentation for executives regarding Color Conformance for your organization
• Pass the ChromaChecker Color Champion Examination with a 90% score

Requirements for Advanced Certification:

• Use all Sources of Reference in QuickChecker 
• Create a custom control strip with 5 samples from the custom Spot Color Library + 40% spot tints + Substrate
• Barcodes in CC Capture (Scanning Template, Job ID,  login to CC Capture)
• Use Project Inspector to deploy a project including a Target, Substrate, and Spot Color

Upon successful completion of the program, the certification you will be awarded the following:

• Personalized ChromaChecker Certificate acknowledging the achievement
• Announcement of achievement in the ChromaChecker Newsletter
• Announcement on the ChromaChecker Community Forum
• Broadcast on ChromaChecker social media sites

What this is not

This is not a training program but rather a certification program. While the ChromaChecker platform has a wealth of educational material that can be used, it is highly recommended that you take advantage of color consulting and onboarding services if needed to complete the certification requirements.

This is intended for clients of ChromaChecker, so the purchase of the minimal components is required for 3 months during the roll-out of the system.