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August 4, 2022

Color Inspector Architecture — Projects/Products and Assets

Color Inspector has two basic sections

1. Assets

This is the central repository where Color Standards are stored. We have Libraries and more temporary Palletes where samples are organized by substrate and/or technology. For example, we can have Pantone Coated - which is dedicated to coated paper only and Pantone Uncoated _ where all samples are printed on uncoated paper. In fact, any new substrate (plastic, textile, paper that is different from regular coated and uncoated  - requires a separate Library. 

 

2. QC Tracking 

There we have Products or Projects. This is a database that collects production measurements from various print runs and other manufacturing processes.

 

Projects (Products in Print Industry)

Chromachecker makes it possible to create production templates called Projects. This defines  

  1. A subset of Spot colors from Assets that are intended to be controlled for both Production and Quality Control. Typically it is a list of a few (1-12) Standards that the operator should measure. 

  2. Additionally but not mandatory, a selected Substrate can be defined - so the system can also track this variable. It is very important where we are printing White  (on transparent film, textile, metal, ...) but it also may be useful to check any regular substrate stability

Jobs

Job is a single attempt to production - a single print run or other manufacturing processes. There might be a lot of Jobs that are associated with the production template - Project. Color Inspector will record each Job and keep information about who was an Operator and when this Job was performed. All this information are accessible to the Operator - so it is easier to compare past and present or compare to results made in a different location on a different device.

 

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