Chromix ColorThink Pro v4

• Measuring - measurement functions are integrated directly into the Worksheet, Graphing and White Point Editor
• MeasurePack - i1Pro 1/2/3/+ support is included with Photo and Pro licenses. All other instruments are unlocked by the MeasurePack license on ColorThink version 4
• PrePressPack - can be added to ColorThink Pro only
• Gamut Comparison - uses gamut subtraction and/or addition to create an entirely new kind of graph
• Image Animation - images load in their normal form and smoothly animate between the normal display form and the Lab values of the image colors in the grapher
• Color Assets - organizes all Color Assets, including profiles that are installed in your system plus other assets that are located wherever you store them
• White Point Editor - modifying the white point in an ICC profile is a handy way to alter the appearance of proofs as well as other functions
• LCH Mode - graphs in LCH allowing you to evaluate your color from a very different perspective
• Delta-E-blobs - can illustrate the idea of Delta E as a blobs or spheres around colors

Compatible with most current mainstream measuring instruments, ColorThink 4 senses a connected instrument automatically, adding it to the icon bar. If you start measuring directly from the icon bar, the results are dropped into a new worksheet. If you start measuring in the Grapher, the results are dropped right into the graph. 

• X-Rite
  • i1 Pro 1&2
  • i1 Pro 3 & 3 Plus
  • iO 1&2 &3
  • iSis 1&2
  • eXact and eXact Scan (USB or Bluetooth)

• Barbieri
  • Spectro LFP (USB)
  • Spectro LFPqb (USB or Ethernet)

• Konica Minolta MYIRO-9 (FD-9) (USB or Ethernet)
• Techkon SpectroDens (USB or Wifi - Wifi and Windows access require TDservice app in Windows computer or VM)
• Color Sentinel CSS-110 (Win only, USB or Bluetooth)

Allows full access to instrument capabilities including M0, M1, M2, M3 filtering, Reflective / Transmissive scans, Aperture Control and multiple measurements per patch (all depending on instrument features, of course)

PrePressPack - can be added to ColorThink Pro only

• nColor profile and color list handling, converting and graphing
• Device link and ColorCast profile creation
• White Point Editor
• map list white point (SCCA)
• Patch tuning*

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Targets (practically any target on any instrument)

Scans targets created by:

• MeasureTool
• ColorPort
• i1Profiler
• Barbieri Chart Generator

And they can be scanned with virtually any instrument (the iSis is a stickler for needing multiple items specified, so it requires a target created for the iSis - but! iSis targets can be scanned by virtually all other instruments)

Also, target definitions are shared between all CHROMiX applications and services, so Curve, Curve+, ColorThink 4 and Maxwell all share the same setup.

MemoryScan (iO, LFP, MYIRO-9)

The innovative MemoryScan function recalls the position of prior targets for speedy multi-target scanning on iO, LFP/qb and MYIRO-9.

Use heavy tape (iO and LFP) to mark target positions and measuring becomes as fast as placing a trimmed target and hitting the space bar!

Corner Aiming (LFP)

The Barbieri Spectro LFP and LFPqb typically require users to aim the instrument at points 17.5 mm lower than the top edge of the target. Targets specifically made for scanning on the LFP have these markings, but many others do not.

In order to have the flexibility you need, you can use the normal target corners for aiming. Now it's easy to scan any target on an LFP/qb without having a ruler and sharpie pen in hand.

Target Rotating (measure in any orientation)

Sometimes rotating a target 90 or 180 degrees makes scanning much easier:

• Hand-held instruments like i1Pro, eXact and SpectroDens are often easier to use across a target in a specific direction
• Sheet scanners like the iSis and MYIRO-9 often scan targets in the portrait orientation but table scanners like the iO and LFP need them in landscape.
• The MYIRO-9 needs a target to have a sizable border on its trailing edge - feeding it an iSis target 'upside down' often works better.
• Some heatmap-style targets will only fit into a scanner rotated 90 degrees from the direction it passed through the printer

Simply click the left or right rotation buttons until the target on screen matches how you want to measure it. The arrangement of the scanned patches will match the original target definition file's layout, so no other adjustments are required.

Reverse-Order Row Scanning (i1 Pro)

When hand scanning targets row-by-row, our tools allow scanning from the bottom row up, ensuring the scanning instrument (and ruler in some cases) will not mark the printed target in any way.

MeasureWatch Control and Verify

Implementing support for modern instruments within a company can be tricky.

Customers need to control the aperture, reflective / transmissive scan mode, M-series filtration and other features to ensure each measurement is gathered and recorded correctly. MeasureWatch Control benefits range from intelligent default behaviors - like ensuring that production measurements automatically configure the instrument to match reference colors - to powerful management control - such as locking out instruments that don't provide the required M-series measurements (in Maxwell Client)

MeasureWatch Control features are included with all measurement tools in Curve, Curve+, ColorThink 4 and Maxwell.

MeasureWatch Verify, Maxwell's instrument verification service enables instrument verification and trending by measuring a Color Reference Material target. CRMs including reference measurements can conform to ISO-9001 and reduce the need for expensive instrument re-certification.

ColorThink 4 uses gamut subtraction and/or addition to create an entirely new kind of graph. For example: When sRGB and a press profile are compared, ColorThink 4 subtracts the portion of the press profile that is left outside of sRGB. This is a very clear illustration of the colors on press that are unavailable if sRGB is your working space. The compare function can reverse the subtraction, so the press profile is subtracted from the sRGB gamut. You can also select the shared gamut to be shown in addition to the fully combined gamut. The Plot Item inspector shows the gamut volumes of each of the two original gamuts as well as the comparison volume. The gamut comparison index or GCI is also an easy number to relate to and is calculated in accordance to the ISO standard.

ColorThink 4 has an exciting new way of displaying images in the grapher. Images load in their normal form and smoothly animate between the normal display form and the Lab values of the image colors in the grapher. The embedded profile is easily selected to show in wireframe form, illustrating how the image colors all fit within the gamut of its embedded profile. This feature alone will wow your audience and help get their head into color faster than any previous visualization!

This is a huge benefit for many color folks that have a zillion profiles and related files in various places. ColorThink 4 organizes all Color Assets, including profiles that are installed in your system plus other assets that are located wherever you store them.

Filter them by the kind of asset, the color space of the asset or even arbitrary text.

ColorThink harvests tons of meta-data about each asset type, including primary colors, asset type, color space, gamut volume and various size parameters and even the max density value Dmax. Then you can sort by these values to find the largest gamut profile or the paper with the lowest Dmax. There is so much power in the organizational benefits of the new Color Assets that you'll just have to see for yourself. This feature will save literally hours of search time.

One new tool in ColorThink 4 is the White Point Editor. Modifying the white point in an ICC profile is a handy way to alter the appearance of proofs as well as other functions. The new White Point Editor is very flexible, where you can enter XYZ, Lab or correlated color temperature values. You can also drag and drop a list of colors or another ICC profile into the editor and the white point of those will be used to modify the original profile's white point. It's a simple click and direct measurement from your color instrument to sample a real world paper color and change your profile's white point to that color. Very powerful.

Another effective coordinate space which unfolds profiles and other data sets is LCH. Color hue, which normally goes around the color wheel like hands of a clock is stretched out into a straight line. ColorThink 4 graphs in LCH allowing you to evaluate your color from a very different perspective. With this view the relative saturation or chroma of each of the colors is now easily compared because they're viewed across a straight line. Alternate color spaces like Jab and OKLab can also be used in this mode so you can see how they affect the saturation to become a lot more regular.

The color difference calculations we know as delta E can be difficult to explain. ColorThink 4 can illustrate the idea of Delta E as a blobs or spheres around colors. The Delta E 76 and Delta E 2000 have very different perspectives and shapes relating to closeness distance of color aims. ColorThink 4 will help with this understanding. You can change the plotting coordinates from Lab to Jab or other modes to see how it affects these color differencing shapes.