Welcome to Datacolor Match Pigment

Concentrate scaling is a mathematical alteration of a formula to bring its colorant loading from its target level in a finished product to a formula for a material that is highly loaded that can then be used to mix with uncolored material to make a final product that is colored at the desired level. See more in this document

Keywords are a tool used to identify key properties of the materials you need to choose among when you are formulating to a new color standard. Keywords will help the user identify which colorants/materials have those critical properties which are necessary in color match. This is most useful when the number of colorant choices in your colorant sets are vast, and the knowledge of all those materials’ critical properties are not shared by all users. See more in this document.

Datacolor includes the capability to selectively limit a user’s access to the data management functions. This feature was created to protect proprietary color data, such as standard measurements and colorant data

This program enables you to create and edit Schedules, a super-queue tool which incorporate several job templates into a single queue. By considering multiple job templates, the Schedule feature automates the use of different templates (strategies) to achieve specific colorimetric and non-colorimetric requirements for the jobs in the queue. Please refer to the guide for more details.

When customer gets this error, it is normally due to one of two reasons:

1. The colorant was added to the database and was not calibrated. The colorant needs to be calibrated in order to be used in Formula Central.

2. In the Job Template, the colorant needs to be selected and the Job Template needs to be saved again. In this way, the colorant will be selected each time the user wants to use that Job Template.

Follow this instruction guide on XML import and export

Here are documents explain sample preparation guidelines for a Datacolor Match Pigment colorant database for Ink, Paint, and Cosmetics.

Background:

Most Datacolor Instruments allow selection from multiple options:

1 Specular Included (SCI or INCL or Include) measures all the light reflected from a sample

2 Specular Excluded (SCE or EXCL or Exclude) avoids light reflected directly off the surface of a sample (Glossier samples will measure darker…)

Since there is no reliable method of converting measurements between these two conditions, the program will not allow measurements of different types to be used together in a single match job. See the Datacolor MATCH PIGMENT User Guide glossary for more discussion and definitions.

If you are seeing this warning message:

You have attempted an operation mixing incompatible measurements.

Your colorant set is measured using one condition (usually “Include”) and the Target, Trial or Substrate measurement(s) is made using another.

This could come from using measurements from two or more instruments with different designs.
Usually, the cause is inadvertently mixing samples measured with different SPECULAR settings on a single instrument.

To resolve this issue, calibrate your spectrophotometer and examine the upper left corner of the calibration conditions window.

You will likely find the default setting is changed from “Include” to “Exclude”

Correctly setting the instrument to the same condition as your colorant set measurements (usually “Include”) and measuring the offending sample again will resolve the problem.

Datacolor Match Pigment can exchange data with other software packages. For step by step information please refer to the instruction document.