Pilot (Hunter) Color Tolerance Exercise

Hunter Color Tolerance Exercise

This exercise is designed for any company involved in reproducing color. It is required for any company looking to implement process control procedures, calibration and or Color Profiling tools. Everybody has a different view of what is an acceptable color match. Up until now, it has been very hard to quantify this value.

Using a lot of trial and error experiences used to be the only real way to determine what a person's tolerance was, which was often frustrating and lead to unattainable expectations.

This Exercise will allow the user to:

• Determine a Company wide standard for color tolerance with buy in from all parties
• Armed with this value, the company can easily determine:
  1. How long it takes certain color devices to drift beyond your Tolerance, Which allows your organization to determine the maintenance schedule for each device.
  2. Qualify that the quality and repeatability of devices like Color Measurement devices, Scanners, Monitors and Output devices fall within acceptable tolerance standards based on the Tolerance value determined.
  3. Qualify what level of color control software is necessary to achieve the desired results, and how many color patches need to be used to achieve the desired results.
  4. Qualify your customers tolerance to determine how particular they are before you provide any services for them, because it will allow you to quote the job out more effectively. For instance, you might be able to provide a less expensive proof if the customer tolerance is a higher number.
  5. Qualify how many profiles have to be built to represent different paper stocks.
  6. Qualify how many film types and what kind of IT-8 targets are required (i.e. batch reference data vs. custom reference data).