Frequent Questions
• How do you cope with “Light Seepage”?
• What level of matching is possible?
• I use PMS. How do I use this new scale?
• How is it possible to calculate the translucence values?
How do we cope with Light Seepage?
The unique design of the sample area has a dark room created by two concertinaed enclosures. Each will be a form of silicone rubber material that has an internal photon absorbing material. All the external light is therefore unable to penetrate the sampling area. Light from the internal sources is used. Any scattered light is absorbed by the unique coating and reduced to heat as it decays.
It also removes the problem of “Light Scatter” as well.
A simple and elegant solution pulled from the original focusing apparatus of cameras and their extendable, or contractable, dark spaces.
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What level of matching is possible?
Accuracy as a User Scale is incorporated within the software and displayed as a percentage using a simple slider scale.
A 100% match is calculated to be higher than the human eye can perceive. So no observable difference between the two samples is discernible.
A “near to” match, displayed as a percentage figure as well, can then be at the behest of the users’ choice(s) for whatever colour matching need is required.
E.G. Wallpaper is ideally 100% matched. The difference between printed batches is difficult to discern at the point of purchase. Any difference between different batches is only discernible once the wallpaper is hung.
This mismatch could be eliminated during the printing process using our device and software.
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I use PMS. How do I use this new scale?
If you know PMS you can use our technology as it is incorporated within it.
All colour and illumination information is displayed in all forms. This includes previous formats and matching systems. The unique features of our technology give rise to other benefits too.
Because it scans colour at the photonic level. Therefore data on the electromagnetic scale can also be displayed from each sample(s) with their luminosity and illumination data as well.
Our display also includes the differences between samples and therefore the raw colour and illumination data gives professional users complete data to use within their tasks.
These are unique, patented features.
The result is a multiplicity of formats unified. Pantone, Munsell, NCS, RAL, and a host of others.
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How is it possible to calculate a translucence value?
Translucence is the quality of allowing light to pass through a material, but in a diffused way so that objects on the other side cannot be clearly distinguished
The unique design of using two known light sources allows for two differing values. One for reflected light off the surface of the sample, and one for the light that has passed trough the sample. The difference gives rise to the ability to calculate its value. Knowing the values of the illumination source, and the raw colour data’s values therefore may also be calculated for colour, illuminosity and opacity.
The equation for this is well know. The mathematics has been extended further for this purpose.
A Unique Calculation of Translucence.
A perfectly transparent material has a %T near 100%, while opacity is at 0%. Translucence falls in between, where light passes through but is diffused.
