Konica Minolta Sensing Americas Announces New Upgrade to COLIBRI® Color Matching and Formulation Software
RAMSEY, N.J., June 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Konica Minolta Sensing Americas, Inc. (KMSA), the worldwide leader in the industrial measurement of color, light and shape, announces the availability of version 3.6.4 of COLIBRI® to North and South American customers.
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COLIBRI® is designed for easy, efficient recipe formulation and correction of opaque, translucent and transparent colors. It provides a choice of recipes in seconds even for dark or saturated colors. In addition to calculating an extremely accurate match for color, the software also optimizes the pigment load, preventing over pigmentation in opaque paints and plastics. The unique template function of COLIBRI® allows the user to predefine the software features and screen layout exactly to their needs and applications guaranteeing seamless and fast handling. All functions which are not required are suppressed making the software suit the user's workflow while greatly simplifying operations. COLIBRI® has full enterprise network capability connecting an unlimited number of user's world wide via the web to share a central database. With advanced user management, security access rights and easy integration into Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) tools, COLIBRI® is secure and compliant with IT infrastructure requirements. Additionally COLIBRI® is modular build software that allows customized configurations to meet the individual needs of each customer.
"The new enhancements to COLIBRI® color matching software enhance the users experience and adds a greater level of efficiency to the workflow which directly impacts production," Said Randy Klimek, Product Manager at Konica Minolta Sensing Americas, Inc.
This latest release updates users from version 3.4.8 to 3.6.4 and offers the following enhancements:
- New main menus now makes it more intuitive to manage the database and perform color matching and color quality control
- Speed improvements specifically for enterprise installations and large quality control jobs
- Fully customizable single and multiple QC job reports for statistical analysis
- Enhanced Tinting module for faster and easier production
- Custom display of quality control data for quicker analysis of results
- Inclusion of Konica Minolta's new FD-7 Spectrodensitometer driver
Visit Konica's website http://www.konicaminolta.com/sensingusa for more details and to request a demo.
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About Konica Minolta Sensing Americas, Inc
Konica Minolta Sensing Americas, Inc. (KMSA), a wholly owned subsidiary of Konica Minolta Holdings USA, Inc., is the global leader in the industrial measurement of color, light and shape. The company developed and introduced the first portable spectrophotometers and colorimeters, adding new dimensions of convenience and functionality. Its innovative products dramatically changed the way color, light and shape dimension is measured. Products include colorimeters and spectrophotometers for color measurement, spectroradiometers and lux meters for light measurement, and 3D non-contact digitizers for shape measurement. Thousands of companies from food, plastics, paints and coatings, automotive and aerospace to cosmetics companies, entrust their products quality to Konica Minolta instruments.
Nexirius GmbH is a Swiss Software Company based in Basel with 20 years experience in software development. The company develops software solutions and customized products using state-of- the art technology. By constantly analyzing and evaluating these new technologies the products developed remain in step with market requirements. In 2009 Nexirius acquired the exclusive rights to continue developing the COLIBRI® software following the spin-off from Ciba. COLIBRI® is an innovative color matching, quality control and color communication system for the plastics, inks, paints and coatings industries.
Lou Carulli
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Konica Minolta Sensing Americas, Inc.
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