Perfect Shade Matching in Dyeing by Using Only Colortools (Datacolor spectrometer)

Abstract

Though Textile Trade has been developed in the world on 114 BC, but after long time, during twenty first century, shade matching according to buyer approval has become a vital task. In dyeing factories it's a difficult task to match completely according to the buyer's given approval. Spectrometer can help a great for matching. Datacolor brand has already become a popular name in this trade. It has two softwares--- Colortools and DCIMatch. In Colortools, it shows dl*, da*, db* etc. that means amount of depth, amount of reddish/greenish and amount of yellowish/bluish respectively. But it does not explain how exactly shade should be matched to the standard. In DCIMatch, by taking correction recipe, a very correct recipe can be obtained. But it needs development of database for some years and also this DCIMatch is expensive. In Bangladesh around 60% of factories buy only Colortools. Here I have shown some result of my research, using that formula anyone can give a very useful correction recipe from result of Colortools.