The Modular Software Suite for Pigment Applications

Colibri® Essentials

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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.

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.

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 appli-cation 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.

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Colour correction with correction history and colour preview on a contrast backing

Quality Control display with result table and graphical analysis

Input of calibration data and calculation of optical data

3D-Visualisation of a sample collection

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 exi-sting 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!

10 reasons that will determine your choiceColibri® 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 andCorrection in Lab and Production

Module for Quality Control in Lab and Production as separate installation

Module for Dispensing in Productionor at the POS

Colorant ManagerAdd-on for creation of Colorant Librariesand additive components

Quality ControlAdd-on for Quality Control licensedon the same PC

Batch Calculartor

3D-Gammut Viewer

Add-on for Recipe Predictionof Color Catalogues etc.

Add-on for 3-dimensional color view of sample and recipe fi les

Enterprise ArchitectureAdd-on for access to a central database from one or more workstations

3D-Gammut ViewerAdd-on for 3-dimensional color view of sample and recipe fi les

Konica Minolta Sensing is a distributor of matchmycolor LLC for software and services.Colibri® is a registered trademark of matchmycolor LLC; Microsoft® and Windows® 2000, NT, XP and Vista are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.

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