The Modular Software Suite for Pigment Applications

The Modular Software Suite for Pigment Applications

Colibri Essentials Competent Colibri Essentials is a unique color-matching software suite incorporating more than 40 years of experience in pigment applications and color measurement. Colibri Essentials helps all those involved in the color value chain of the paints and coatings, inks and printing, plastics, dentistry, cosmetics and other sectors to boost their production and sales, allowing them to improve the profitability of their business. Konica Minolta Sensing, with its global network of experts, provides competent and comprehensive application support and after sales services locally throughout the world. Committed We are committed to helping our customers drive their business performance by providing them with a one-stop color management solution that can be tailored to their specific application and adapted or expanded as their requirements change and their business grows. Our experienced color consultants carefully analyze the customer s requirements in respect of application and workflow to recommend the package that best suits their current and future requirements. The Colibri Essentials suite comprises of a powerful range of modules and add-ons allowing the system to be tailored to meet a customer s specific needs. The base modules cater for the entire spectrum of color matching, correction, quality control, archiving and dispensing functions. These are complemented by a series of optional add-ons with supplementary features and additional functions. Competitive Colibri Essentials is designed to ensure consistently accurate color matching for any application. With its advanced multi-flux calculation model, it allows simultaneous color and opacity matching for plastics, coatings, inks and other applications. Colibri Essentials outperforms traditional systems that cater only for matching opaque colors. Optimized formulations allow further savings by avoiding over-pigmentation this is also an important environmental consideration. The auxiliary binder function allows working with different base materials using only one colorant database. This significantly reduces preparation work. The template function permits selection of specific software features and screen layouts to fit your workflow, greatly simplifying operation. Processes can be further streamlined to make the software fit any workflow by suppressing any functions that are not required. Straightforward to install, maintain and update, Colibri Essentials offers an attractive and intuitive user interface. Realistic on-screen visualizations save both time and money.

Connected With full enterprise network capabilities, Colibri Essentials can connect an unlimited number of users in a WAN or via the Web, allowing them to share a central database. It can also be linked with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems. A single sign-on option with advanced user management, access rights and permissions using existing enterprise IT management tools ensures confidentiality and compliance with IT infrastructure requirements. With its state-of-the art software architecture, Colibri Essentials can easily be connected to Colibri Gateway, an innovative cloud-based brand color management and communication solution. Fast, seamless data communication systems enable users in different parts of the world to manage color products and transmit information instantly. Colibri Essentials is optimized to connect to all bench-top and portable spectrophotometers from Konica Minolta. Drivers from a wide variety of other instrument makers are available on request. Whether you deal in paints, plastics, fibers, ceramics, coatings or inks, user-friendly Colibri Essentials is truly a matching software like no other! Colour correction with correction history and colour preview on a contrast backing Input of calibration data and calculation of optical data Quality Control display with result table and graphical analysis 3D-Visualisation of a sample collection

10 reasons that will determine your choice Colibri Essentials: Calculates ideal color and opacity recipe in one step Optimizes matches for different substrates Incorporates an Expert System for pigment selection according to application Manages leftover and recycled material, helping to reduce waste and cost Allows configuration of workflows and settings via templates Displays color collections accurately in 3D color gamuts Can be connected with Enterprise architecture, ERP and dispensers Includes scalable software modules and add-ons as required Can be seamlessly integrated into Colibri Gateway Provides all the advantages of innovative architecture and a modular system based on the latest technology

Colibri Essentials Overview Module for Recipe Prediction and Correction in Lab and Production Module for Quality Control in Lab and Production as separate installation Colorant Manager 3D-Gammut Viewer Add-on for creation of Colorant Libraries and additive components Add-on for 3-dimensional color view of sample and recipe files Module for Dispensing in Production or at the POS Quality Control Add-on for Quality Control licensed on the same PC Batch Calculartor Add-on for Recipe Prediction of Color Catalogues etc. 3D-Gammut Viewer Add-on for 3-dimensional color view of sample and recipe files Enterprise Architecture Add-on for access to a central database from one or more workstations

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