CyberChrome White Paper: The Importance of Instrument Profiling

Introduction Today’s global supply chains, dispersed workforce, and ever-changing technologies bring a unique set of challenges to the color measurement industry. Employees in different countries or even those in the same room can get different readings on the same color samples, leading to frustration, costly recalibration and a high rate of rejected samples. The problem isn’t limited to those companies using multiple types of spectrophotometers – even companies using just one brand of spectrophotometer throughout the organization can find that different models of the same brand read color samples differently. In a field where precision is everything, these discrepancies can prove quite expensive.