Colibri® Platform

• Management of brand colours and designs
• Mark-up of designs for accurate and consistent colour monitoring
• Definition, standardization and referencing of shades
• Store historical data of colour standards
• Improved communication between brand owners, manufacturers, and their suppliers
• Increased cooperation between supply chain participants
• Seamless transfer of colour standards, catalogues, and substrates to third-party software

Colibri^® ColorSpec helps you manage your entire colour pallet, from colour standard specification to development and digital compliance criteria and ultimately, individual supplier review.  
 

Additional options

Color Plugin
Developed for use with Adobe Illustrator^® design software, this Add-on allows creative and prepress designers to connect to the Colibri^® central database and select approved brand colours as well as real colour standards based on spectral colour data for use in their artworks. Designers have the option of working offline but need to re-connect to Colibri^® to ascertain colour data approval status.

Color Feasibility
Predict colour feasibility and consistency across a variety of technologies, applications and substrates in an early stage of the colour specification. This tool is based on real colorant data, but has been developed with user-friendly templates to simplify the process of colour feasibility right at the start of the development process.

• User-friendly, intuitive, and seamless interface
• Highly efficient matching of opaque, translucent, and transparent colours
• Recipe calculation on different substrates
• Vary base material as required, using only one colorant library
• Simplifies the use of leftover materials, reducing waste and costs
• Customisation of functionality and feature settings to match your application and workflow
• Integrated “Expert System”, allowing pigment pre-selection based on application requirements to simplify use of parameters such as light fastness or other criteria.
• One standard recipe to calculate every possible colour recipe combination
• Automatic database update with every change in colour strength, compensate easily for colour fluctuations in base materials
• User management, access rights and permissions management using existing enterprise IT management tools
• Compatibility with all Konica Minolta as well as the majority of other brand spectrophotometers

Additional options:

Batch Recipe Calculator
Calculates and stores “the best recipe” for specified colour data files or entire colour catalogues using pre-defined matching templates in a predefined order. This Add-on is essential for recipe creation for POS applications.

It also allows users to replace components in master recipes systematically and to check the quality of the updated recipes prior to the final replacement.

3D Color Gamut Viewer
View colour recipes, catalogues, and standard collections in CIELAB colour space. The viewer displays true colour hulls and colour points allowing users to follow the colour travel of effect pigments, to identify and reduce the number of similar products in a range as well as to spot the gaps in the colour space.

Quality Control
Add-on for Quality Control with similar features as Module Colibri^® ColorQuality.

Tinting
Add-on for dispensing with similar features as Module Colibri^® ColorTint.

Colibri^® ColorQuality enables manufacturers and suppliers to manage and control production. The “Job” function helps to organize quality control tasks, no matter of application or requirement. User creation of job displays and job reports, in order to meet reporting requirements.

• Improved colour communication between management, production, and partners
• Increased cooperation between supply chain participants
• Fast assessment of the conformity of production to a standard under different illuminants
• Visual display of limits on screen
• Availability of the most common pass / fail criteria, including delta E (CIE Lab), CIE 94, CMC, FMC-2 and Hunter Lab
• Chart mode enables to see at a glance where and how deviations affect the colour
• Template function for optimising the workflow of end users
• Selection of colour strength methods, help to determine the quality and consistency of production batches
• Compatibility with multi-angle measurement devices, improves control over the quality of effect shades

Additional options

3D Color Gamut Viewer
The viewer plots colour recipes, catalogues, and standard collections in the CIELAB colour space. It displays true colour hulls and colour points so that the user can follow the colour travel of effect pigments, to identify and reduce the number of similar products in a range as well as to spot gaps in the colour space.

Colibri^® ColorTint is designed to control the dispensing of colour products (new orders and batch additions) on tinting machines. ColorTint helps to produce the quality expected in different can sizes and with different pre-fillings. Connections to various tinting machines are available. 

• Fast access to recipes developed from colour standards and colour catalogues
• Accurate recipe transfer to dispensing machines improves quality of production
• Simple workflows and automatic communication with your dispensing machine help to reduce time-to-supply
• Customization to filling conditions gives you the flexibility to supply to order
• Easy connection to large enterprise networks facilitates scale up to production