Understanding computer colour matching/ N.S. Gangakhedkar

Includes references.

Colour -- Cause and effect of colour -- The history of colour revolution: Mauve -- Relationship between colour and chemical constitution -- The concept of colour measurement -- Colour primer -- Colour quantification -- Metamerism -- Questionnaire on metamerism -- Metamerism and colour difference evaluation -- Development of colour difference formula -- Colour strength and chromaticity of dyes -- Quality Assurance of colour: dyestuff manufacturer's problem -- Computer colour technology -- Colour measurement using spectrophotometery -- Check list for colour matching software -- Modern computer colour matching system -- K-M equations for solving textile colour matching problems -- Interactive add for dyer: expert system -- Colour catch in "zero shot" colour match "first shot" -- Who is your dyer of today a dyer who is computer colourist -- Colour matching software for fibre blending -- Blend program(for dyestuff/pigment manufacturer) -- Dye house management program -- Process control studies -- Role of colour computer in dye house -- Success/failure of the system -- Colour computer: people can make or break the system -- The practical approach to colour computer -- Theory of predicting colour recipe formula for paint/plastic system -- Automatic and manual batch correction -- Computer tinting -- Spectrophotometric of determining hiding power -- Paint maker system -- Technology and its applications

This book is nothing but collection of notes and papers and personal experiences of installation, training and applications aspects of this interesting subject. In a conventional way, it is not a text book or a book written in a particular order. This collection f articles are organized in such a way that all important concepts of colour related to industrial colour technology are covered.