BYK-Gard­ner offers two lev­els of color con­trol soft­ware for record­ing, ana­lyz­ing and doc­u­ment­ing color mea­sure­ment results in the lab­o­ra­tory and pro­duc­tion.
- auto-QC lite for basic QC require­ments
- auto-QC with advanced fea­tures 

• auto-QC lite auto­mat­i­cally cal­cu­lates tol­er­ances based on mea­sured pro­duc­tion trials. Asym­met­ri­cal fit allows best agree­ment with the visual per­cep­tion
  

• Tol­er­ances defined by the cus­tomer can be man­u­ally input in any color scale

• Metamerism is no longer a problem – dis­play results of up to 3 illu­mi­nants on one screen

auto-QC
Color Con­trol Soft­ware

auto-QC lite offers the fol­low­ing
capa­bil­i­ties:

• Cus­tomized screen lay­outs for ease of oper­a­tion
• Pass/Fail, color-on-screen and text descrip­tion let the user see in a flash whether he is on tar­get or not

• SPC con­trol charts with upper/lower con­trol lim­its for any index and color scale allow the user to rec­og­nize trial color devi­a­tions over time and trends early

color-view

• Direct trans­fer of all col­ori­met­ric data, spec­tral data and indices into Excel® can be eas­ily accom­plished
  

auto-QC
Sup­ports the BYK-Gard­ner color instru­ments color-view and spec­tro-guide – and other com­monly avai­l­able spec­tropho­tome­ters.

spec­tro-guide fam­ily

In addi­tion, auto-QC offers the
fol­low­ing advanced fea­tures:

• Easy cre­a­tion of macros:
  Dif­fer­ent soft­ware steps are com­bined into one pro­ce­dure. One keys­troke exe­cutes the macro and guides inex­pe­ri­enced users through their mea­sure­ment tasks
  
  
• Direct trans­fer of data into a database like Micro­soft Access® allows pro­duc­tion batches to be archived and recalled for future com­pari­son
  

• Use the direct e-mail tools to trans­fer color data world­wide in a second

• Easy to use with cus­tomized screen lay­outs
  
  
• Pass/Fail anal­y­sis with auto-tol­er­anc­ing
  
  
• Export of color data to Excel® wihtin a second 

Comes com­plete with:
Soft­ware on CD-ROM
Pro­tec­tion key for USB port
All instru­ment drivers

Hard­ware Require­ments:
Oper­at­ing sys­tem: Win­dows 2000 or higher
Mem­ory: min. 8 MB RAM (rec­om­mended 64 MB)
Hard disk capac­ity: min. 5 MB
Mon­i­tor res­o­lu­tion: VGA or bet­ter
Disk drive: CD-ROM
Inter­face: serial inter­face and USB port

Note: If using a PC with USB port and the spec­tropho­tome­ter spec­tro-guide, please order the spe­cial USB-adapter CC-6813.