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Datacolor 45IR User Guide, 5.2014, Version 1.0 (4230-0402M)

Standards

DIN

The Datacolor 45IR is in compliance with:

DIN 5033-7

Colorimetry Measuring Condition for Object Colours

ASTM

The Datacolor 45IR is in compliance with:

E 308,

SP for Computing the Colors of Objects by using the CIE System

D 2244

SP for calculation of Color Tolerances and Color Differences from Instrumentally Measured Color

Coordinates

Summary of Contents for 45IR

Page 1: ...Datacolor 45IR User Guide 5 2014 Version 1 0 4230 0402M 1 Datacolor 45IR User s Guide ...

Page 2: ...ram s described in this material at any time Copyright 2011 Datacolor ALL RIGHTS RESERVED This material may not be reproduced or duplicated in whole or in part without the express written permission of Datacolor Microsoft Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation All other registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners To obtain information on local agents conta...

Page 3: ...______________________ 13 Charging ________________________________________________________________ 14 Control Elements _____________________________________________________________ 16 Calibration _____________________________________________________________ 16 Protecting the Instrument White Standard _____________________________________ 16 Holding the Instrument _________________________________...

Page 4: ...ity Initialization ____________________________________________________ 41 Specifications ________________________________________________________________ 42 Technical Data ________________________________________________________________ 42 Functional ___________________________________________________________________ 42 Physical ____________________________________________________________________...

Page 5: ...ded purpose Keep these instructions and refer to them periodically and when needed Safety Hazards The following symbols are used throughout this document This is a good idea that may help you This sign warns of danger from electricity This sign points to additional information This sign points to danger DANGER The term DANGER means possible severe injuries danger to life and product destruction WA...

Page 6: ...F Do NOT crush short circuit reverse polarity or disassemble battery Dispose of battery in accordance with local regulations Refer to applicable section in this manual for battery replacement CARE USEAGE Do NOT drop bump or shake the unit It contains precision components that may be damaged Avoid exposure to condensing humidity high humidity or liquids Use only Datacolor accessories Do NOT allow f...

Page 7: ... in the printing of Bank Notes and other secure documents where color control is critical and fraud protection very important The Datacolor 45IR is ideal for use by Bank Note Printers Security Document Printers Security Ink Manufacturers and National Banks The Datacolor 45IR adds real value across the color supply chain The Datacolor 45IR is useable for color control color management formulation a...

Page 8: ...d 4 Carrying Case Not Shown 5 User Guide Manual Datacolor s Not Shown 6 AC DC Converter 120 240 AC 50 60 Hz 380 mA to 7 5 VDC at 2A 7 AC Adapters Type A C and G 8 Datacolor User Guide English Not shown 9 Calibration Certificate Not Shown 10 Calibration Data White Tile Values Not Shown 11 Techkon Service Installation Flash Drive Not Shown 12 Datacolor MATCH PIGMENT Plus Not Shown OR 13 Datacolor MA...

Page 9: ...Datacolor 45IR User Guide 5 2014 Version 1 0 4230 0402M 9 Controls Datacolor 45IR Measurement Head Navigation Buttons Display Measurement Port ...

Page 10: ...Datacolor 45IR User Guide 5 2014 Version 1 0 4230 0402M 10 Charging Console Measurement Button On Off Measurement Port Battery Compartment Retention Screw Tracking wheels Charging Contacts ...

Page 11: ...the entire Datacolor 45IR User s Guide paying particular attention to the Section on Safety AC DC Converter The AC DC Converter connects to AC Power AC Power is defined as 100 to 240 VAC 47 to 63Hz AC Adapters The Datacolor 45IR is supplied with the following AC Adapters Type A Type C Type G NEMA 1 15 CEE 7 16 BS 1363 USA Europe UK ...

Page 12: ...he battery of the Datacolor 45IR unit Connecting Charging Unit The Charging Console should be connected to the AC adapter before the AC Adapter is connected to AC Power source Keep the contacts clean on the Charging Console and on the bottom of the instrument An electrical contact cleaner may be used if deemed necessary Charging Contacts Rotating Instrument Absolute White Standard ...

Page 13: ...ll show on the display the last measurement done There is no button to turn Datacolor 45IR off Battery The Rechargeable NiMH battery has regulated charging via the Charging Console connected to the AC Adapter when the instrument is mounted and seated on the Charging Console The Datacolor 45IR battery supplies 10 000 measurements per charge There is an Active Battery Level indicator shown below Whe...

Page 14: ... the trickle charge The battery requires approximately 4 hours to fully charge The charging of the battery occurs automatically The display shows a totally Green Battery indicating it is 100 fully charged as shown in the picture below The Datacolor 45IR contains a smart charger You may keep the Datacolor 45IR on the Charging Console The battery cannot be overcharged ...

Page 15: ...lean If oxidized use a special metal contact cleaner Five seconds after placing the device on the console the display will show an animated battery symbol When the symbol displays a full battery the charging is completed and the battery is fully charged Completely charging an empty battery will take approximately four hours Datacolor 45IR has a regulated charging management This means it will powe...

Page 16: ... before starting to measure and re calibrate every 4 four hours The White Instrument Absolute Standard is provided for this purpose Be sure that the White Instrument Absolute Standard is kept meticulously clean and protected Protecting the Instrument White Standard Protect the Instrument White Standard by rotating the Rotating Standard Holder so that the Instrument White Standard rotates into the ...

Page 17: ...y ready to measure Just position the measurement aperture on top of the measurement sample and press shortly with the index finger the green measurement button Within one second the resulting measurement value appears on the device display Please ensure that the device always has a firm stand on a flat surface There must not be a distance between the measurement head and the sample where light cou...

Page 18: ...he cursor travels from soft key to soft key at a constant speed until the arrow button is depressed again By pressing the enter button a function behind a soft key is selected and a selectable menu appears Within such a menu again the navigation is done via the arrow buttons and the selections are made with the enter button Some menu items or soft keys might be shaded in appearance and cannot be s...

Page 19: ... brings you back to the measurement mode The Datacolor 45IR INFO screen shows the type of device the software and hardware versions as well as the serial number Sound Sound activates an acoustic signal after each measurement Display Contrast The Display Contrast can be turned darker or brighter Language Language sets the language menu of the device Date Date displays the current date Time Time dis...

Page 20: ...ed by the factory and should not be changed Scrolling Down show additional menu items Absolute White Reference Values The absolute white Standard Calibrated reference values are displayed as Spectral Reflectance Factor values Reset The Reset puts the device to factory settings ATTENTION All stored measurement values and a recently made calibration will be deleted and should therefore be saved on t...

Page 21: ...standard A calibration is as easy to carry out as a measurement Select the soft key Calibration and place the device with the measurement head on top of a blank area of the paper sheet The calibration can be started now by pressing either the enter button or the green measurement button After one second there will appear a window with the message that the calibration has been done The device is no...

Page 22: ...nt result Setting Density SLOPE With the SLOPE correction values it is possible to adjust Datacolor 45IR to the density values of other devices Activate the soft key with the cogwheel icon and select the menu item Density adjustment Slope Select the menu item Cyan Enter the Cyan value you find on the calibration chart By pressing the arrow buttons the value can be increased or decreased In the sam...

Page 23: ...e consecutively the solid patches of Cyan Magenta Yellow and Black A correct measurement is indicated by a green dot behind the respective color The SLOPE correction values are shown A reset of the SLOPE correction values is done by activating the menu item reset Slope coefficients You reset the device back to its original factory settings ...

Page 24: ...hy are densities for the other colors shown as well Shouldn t they have a value of 0 No These are the so called partial densities No printing ink is 100 spectrally pure There will always be partial colors besides the actual main color This function also makes comparison between measurements and reference values In this example the reference value was not taken from the reference memory but was mea...

Page 25: ...he process colors Cyan Magenta Yellow and Black The Datacolor 45IR can obtain a virtual spectral density characteristic for any spot color The great advantage is that the process control of spot colors can now be as easily achieved as the four process colors In the following example a measurement has been made on a blue spot color The density graph is derived from the remission spectrum and repres...

Page 26: ...al ideal White The a value describes the color value on the Green Red axis a Green a Red and the b value the color value on the Blue Yellow axis b Blue b Yellow CIELAB colorimetric measurement on a blue sample The blue color has a low luminance of L 28 71 and a low portion of Red a 15 In colorimetry the white reference is absolute contrary to densitometry where the white is usually referenced to p...

Page 27: ...fferent colors activate the Delta Mode first by selecting the soft key with the triangle icon Color comparison Reference Sample Now two measurements are made 1 Reference measurement 2 Sample measurement The color distance E is displayed with two significant digits to the right of the decimal place Additionally the components L a and b are displayed Different formulas for calculating the color dist...

Page 28: ...Circle as well as CIE XYZ and remission Curve can be operated in absolute mode with DELTA ON or in comparison mode with DELTA OFF Remission Curve The function remission Curve offers the complete spectral graph Remission values are shown in 10 nanometer steps in the spectral range of 400 to 700 nm A remission value has a range between 0 no remission absolute darkness and 1 total remission of the em...

Page 29: ...non that two colors match under certain light conditions and differ under different light conditions Colorimetry offers the possibility to detect this effect by measuring the color distance between the two color samples under two exactly defined light sources The result of this operation is the Metamerism Index For the determination of the Metamerism Index there are two measurements to be made A r...

Page 30: ...a positive value the paper has a yellow cast If the Yellowness Index is a Negative value the paper has a blue cast PASS FAIL The Pass FAIL function shows at a glance if a measured sample is greater than or less than the tolerance about a reference value First set the allowable limits of the E ab tolerance Select in the menu section of the measurement conditions the item Pass FAIL tolerance and edi...

Page 31: ...n automatic averaged value using the instrument in the untethered mode follow the instructions below If using the instruments in the tethered mode refer to Datacolor TOOLS manual Obtaining Average Values From a series of single measurements Average values can be calculated and displayed This function may be used when the surface of the sample has no even distribution of color By selecting the soft...

Page 32: ... is done withthe arrow keys With Save the last reference measurement is stored Select shows a list of stored color values Within the list values can be selected and dis played by using the arrow and enter buttons By activating Save automatically all future reference measurements will be stored automatically By activating Search automatically reference Mem the closest matching reference color when ...

Page 33: ... operations as the reference memory Here up to 1200 sample color values can be stored However the sample memory is a ring memory i e e maximum 1200 samples can be stored before the first sample will be overwritten by a new measurement The pop up window opens by pressing the enter button with the device in Sample Mode ...

Page 34: ... Software Installation Sequence To install and configure the software on your computer for the Datacolor 45IR follow these simple steps in the exact order 1 Install Sybase 12 2 Install the Techkon Service 3 Install Datacolor MATCH PIGMENT And or 4 Install Datacolor TOOLS PLUS ...

Page 35: ...12 0 1 1 Insert the CD into Drive on your computer 2 AutoPlay should respond with 3 Select Run Menu exe 4 The SYBASE Datacolor Server Components Installation Menu window appears 5 Select and follow View Installation Instructions 6 Restart computer after installation is complete ...

Page 36: ...0 4230 0402M 36 Installation of Techkon Service 1 Insert the Flash Drive into a USB Port on your computer 2 Open the Flash Drive 3 Select and open Menu by double clicking 4 From the Datacolor 45IR Installation Menu select Install Datacolor 45IR ...

Page 37: ...30 0402M 37 5 The Datacolor 45IR Installation Wizard Menu appears 6 Select Next 7 The Datacolor 45IR InstallShield Wizard appears 8 Select Install 9 The Datacolor 45IR InstallShield Wizard responds 10 Select Finish and Restart Computer to initialize ...

Page 38: ...ur computer 2 The AutoPlay should respond 3 Select Run MENU EXE from the AutoPlay menu 4 Datacolor MATCH PIGMENT installation menu responds with 5 Select View Installation Instructions from the Datacolor MATCH PIGMENT Installation Menu 6 Follow the installation instructions 7 Restart the computer after installation is complete ...

Page 39: ... Insert the Datacolor TOOLS PLUS DVD into your computer 2 AutoPlay should respond with 3 Select Run MENU EXE from the AutoPlay menu 4 Datacolor TOOLS PLUS Installation Menu responds with 5 Select View Installation Instructions and follow directions 6 Restart computer after installation is complete ...

Page 40: ... Open Datacolor TOOLS PLUS 2 Press the Calibrate button to calibrate the instrument The Full Scale Calibration measurement will be requested as shown below 3 Press Ready when the instrument is position on the Instruement White Tile with the Instrument White Tile in position ...

Page 41: ...the Averaging Function of the internal firmware of the Datacolor 45IR is turned off 2 Using the directional buttons highlight the Δ symbol on the display as shown below and press the Return Button 3 The Averaging Function is a binary function Pressing the Return Button toggles the Averaging Function Off and On Repeat this process until averaging is Off ...

Page 42: ... Storage 0o to 40o C k OS MS Windows 7 32 64 bit and higher 2 Functional a Colorimetric CIELAB CIEXYZ CIELChab CIELUV CIELChuv CIEYxy b Data Plots Remission Curve CIE Color Circle c Metamerism Indices MA MC MD50 MF2 MF7 MF11 d Indices CIE Whiteness D 1925 Yellowness e Densities Densities CMYK Densities Graph f Calibration Absolute Paper g Illuminant A C D50 D65 F02 F07 F11 h Observer 2o 10o i Delt...

Page 43: ...nstrument White Standard 4 Carrying Case Not Shown 5 User Guide Manual Datacolor s Not Shown 6 AC DC Converter 120 240 AC 50 60 Hz 380 mA to 7 5 VDC at 2A 7 AC Adapters 1 Type A 2 Type C 3 Type G 8 Datacolor User Guide English 9 Calibration Certificate 10 Calibration Data White Tile Values 11 Sybase 12 Installation CD 12 Techkon Service Installation Flash Drive 13 Datacolor MATCH PIGMENT Installat...

Page 44: ...orescent materials or photoactive dyes should be used as needed to clear any oils fingerprints or other deposits Liquid dish detergent is a suitable detergent The detergent water solution should be prepared as follows 1 part detergent 250 parts de ionized water Brush the surface of the Instrument White Standard lightly with a soft brush to remove foreign debris Apply a few drops of the prepared de...

Page 45: ...ment aperture with oil free clean compressed air and a brush used for cleaning photographic equipment For easy cleaning the aperture can be taken off from the measurement head by unscrewing three screws with a special TORX T6 screwdriver Clean the device casing and the display window only with a soft cloth and a non aggressive plastic cleaner Never use alcohol or chemically aggressive solvent base...

Page 46: ...t which is important for the correct optical depth of field might not be maintained Changing Battery The battery is changeable by Datacolor Service Engineers Please contact your local Datacolor Service Center for assistance Instrument Reset A device reset sets the device back to factory settings All calibration data including SLOPE values stored measurement reference target and tolerance values wi...

Page 47: ...liance with DIN 5033 7 Colorimetry Measuring Condition for Object Colours ASTM The Datacolor 45IR is in compliance with E 308 SP for Computing the Colors of Objects by using the CIE System D 2244 SP for calculation of Color Tolerances and Color Differences from Instrumentally Measured Color Coordinates ...

Page 48: ...non in which the appearance of a specimen changes with change in illumination or viewing angle Region Office Telephone US Lawrenceville NJ Datacolor 1 800 982 6496 Europe Belgium Netherland and Luxembourg Datacolor België BVBA 32 9 243 87 27 Europe France Paris Datacolor SAS 33 148185 480 Europe Germany Marl Datacolor Marl 49 2365 510950 Europe Italy Datacolor Italy SRL 39 0362 332142 Europe Switz...

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