Techkon USA has announced a new release of its award-winning ink & pressroom color management suite CHROMA QA 6 with SmartInk. ChromaQA 6 is designed to make color management for brands, printers, converters, and ink providers easy with its entirely redesigned user interface and new features for color matching, corrections, and standards management. ChromaQA 6 combines several software packages into one, providing seamless cloud-based color quality control workflows, without the pain points of other software and at a fraction of the cost.

New Feature Highlights of ChromaQA 6 include:

A completely new user interface provides a modern, clean, look and feel for easier and more intuitive workflows that won’t slow you down in the heat of production.

There has been a major update to the award-winning SmartInk AI ink toning engine – the ink toning technology SmartInk (only available in ChromaQA), that uses AI for precise recipe corrections in the ink room and right on press, has been further refined for higher accuracy, even faster matching, and now provides specific optimization methods:
“Automatic” – favors recipe correction with best spectral curve matching
“Lowest deltaE” – favors recipe correction with lowest resulting dE
“Lowest Ink Amount” – favors recipe correction using less ink with a dE still under 1.0

A New averaging feature allows for the creation of color standards faster and more accurately. Chroma Standards now allows for using multiple measurements when creating new standards. ChromaQA automatically averages together all measurements, perfect when measuring ink drawdowns or other materials with color variations where an average will help to smooth out the measurements. With Chroma Standards, users can also manage their own “live”, cloud-based, library of colors that are specific to inks, substrates, and print processes, ensuring that all locations are targeting achievable color standards. Also, Chroma Standards can automatically identify and eliminate duplicate colors to ensure a clean database.

Additionally, there are new localizations and embedded training videos in multiple languages (English, German, Spanish, French, Polish, Serbian) make it easy to learn how to use ChromaQA without a steep learning curve. Also, new OmniConnect drivers allow using handheld spectrophotometer devices from third party manufacturers directly via USB connection without the need for third party software.

“ChromaQA 6 is setting new standards for color QC software with its unparalleled ease of use, seamless interconnectivity across teams & workflows, and unique features like SmartInk and our Standards module that are not available anywhere else”, says Stephen Rankin, director product management at Techkon USA.