Pantone GP1609A Capsure with Formula Guide Device, Multi-Colour

Produit sympa, pratique, mais la couleur pantone affichée à l'écran ne corresponds pas toujours à l'échantillon. Et ça c'est pas possible.....

Not accurate. Software is not user friendly to find colour

I have been painstakingly trying to match my Kona Cotton solids fabrics with the Pantone The Plus Series Color Bridge Coated & Uncoated - by hand. The grey skies and gloomy, rainy days make that job even more challenging. I have searched all over to try and find RGB or CMYK or Pantone matches for the Kona Cotton solids, but haven't found any information. I decided to get the Pantone CAPSURE Color Matcher tool to use with the Color Bridge, and I love it! I tried this the first time a few days ago - I brought my Kona Cotton solids to a room with both natural and ambient light during the daytime (highest daylight hours), and set the CAPSURE light setting to match the room. The first several matches, I matched up what CAPSURE matched to what I had previously matched. Some were the exact match I had previously, some were not, but close. Some matches are more difficult to the fabric color and available Pantone colors. Because I want to use these matches digitally as well, I need to make sure there is a different Pantone match for each of the fabric colors. If I get a match for the same Pantone color for multiple fabric colors, I then go back to the book and find the best matches for each. My project is more detailed and time consuming than most - and even for me it works great! It is an investment, but one that is totally worth it for me. I will be using this for years to come, on a variety of projects!

This product has been an incredibly disappointing experience. 1) the claim "Easily integrates captured colors into your design programs - Adobe Creative Suite and QuarkXPress" is false. X-Rite Pantone tells me this was a "typo". There is no way to get the data out of the device 2) the device doesn't give you the color value for the color you are scanning, it gives you the color value for the closest color. I need to instruct my vendor on our Delta E and where to move from current samples. I can do neither since I cannot get a reading of the color in front of me. 3) the support for the product has been horrible so far. it took me a week to get the "this was a typo, I hope this didn't cause any inconvenience" chat back. Inconvenience? I spent nearly $800 on a device that wasn't as advertised and now doesn't do the most basic of functions - give me the color value of the color in front of me. I have an $800 paperweight, barely used. Unacceptable.

I performed an experiment with this at work. I captured 178 from a fandeck in our ink room both on the Capsure and our company's spectrometer. Both devices were calibrated and at the same illumination. I did this 5 times and the results were alarming. The Capsure captured perfectly consistent Lab values while the one at work did not. The variations in the work spectrometer were even up to whole numbers rather than just percentages. This thing is ridiculously easy to use and packed full of helpful tools. Did I mention it's ridiculously accurate?