EyeC has announced the availability of an update for EyeC Proofiler that features integrated color inspection and support for digital color libraries. Also new is the EyeC Color Book Editor, which supports the management of digital color books and individual color references while enabling a smooth inspection process.

With this update, EyeC is responding to the growing demands of print image inspection, particularly in the consumer and luxury goods and pharmaceutical industries.

The new EyeC Proofiler software update ensures integrated color measurement without the addition of an external measuring device. Any number of color patches can be measured randomly in the sample and previously defined measuring points can be reliably checked. Colors are evaluated during the measurement as CIELab color values, which are then specified as ΔE color differences compared to the reference color values. Measurement can be done on a PDF (PDF-to-PDF comparison) or on a scanned, physical sample (PDF-to-scan or scan-to-scan comparison).

The new update also includes the EyeC Color Book Editor. This user-friendly program enables even more efficient and faster input of the most suitable reference colors by importing customer-specific color books, Pantone libraries, as well as the manual input of CIELab reference color values. Individual color values can be edited and managed with just a few clicks. The intelligent function offers EyeC Proofiler users the additional option of applying color values recurrently and automatically with a secure process for color measurement. Furthermore, exact CIELab values and ΔE tolerance values can be assigned to each color. Input errors are reliably avoided by selecting the predefined reference color values.

With this new version, EyeC Proofiler users can now perform both relative process control and absolute color measurement in CIELab. The beneficial results are time savings in color measurement and the assurance that colors always match the required specifications.