

Spectrometers read a colour, calculate the differences from a known colour solution and compute the formula to get the highest quality colour solution for a specific repair. Because the spectrometer can identify a matching colour fast shops can get more vehicles through in a day resulting in more efficiency as well as greater revenue. The company’s KOH spectrometer combines six-angle equipment technology with a large colour library and cutting-edge algorithms. BASF says that a spectrophotometer is the most efficient colour matching tool as it can discern more colour than the human eye. PPG offers the RAPIDMATCH XI spectrophotometer, which the company says measures more angles than any other device on the market. PPG says that “the basis for any spectrophotometer’s colour matching capability lies in the ability to tap into an extensive colour formula database using colour angle information and algorithms that efficiently and accurately delivers ‘target to match’ returns.” The images taken will then be used to identify the texture of the colour conjunction using multiple angles to ensure the best match. Sophisticated spectrometers feature a colour camera that captures multiple colour images of the car’s surface.
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The colour matching software searches more than 200,000 constantly-updated formulas, and where necessary, automatically adjusts the closest formula to provide refinishers with the best possible match, which can then be selected on a smartphone or a tablet and sent via WIFI to an IP scale for mixing the colour formula.

Refinishers can take the device’s colour readings from a vehicle’s paintwork using the spectrophotometer, which then wirelessly sends the readings to Axalta’s online global colour database. The company says the tool “takes the guesswork out of colour matching,” measuring colour at multiple different angles, and, when synced with AkzoNobel’s MIXIT software, can provide “the most accurate level of colour match.”Īxalta’s spectrophotometer is also a popular choice among painters, selling more than 60,000 units globally.

Spectrophotometers began as stationary single-angle instruments used for colour matching.ĪkzoNobel says its most popular-and accurate- paint matching tool is its Automatchic Vision (AMV) spectrophotometer combined with its MIXIT colour retrieval software.
