Colour Measurement for Leather Products

Leather is perceived as a luxury product, used for all manner of applications from furnishings, to clothing and accessories. Due to its higher price point than alternative textiles, consumers will have a more critical eye on anything that does not match their expectation of greater perceived quality. Leather producers must be able to control the final colour and surface appearance of products, working against the individuality of each piece of leather.

 

Having the ability to offer a range of colours or customise a product to the customer specification or consumer trends is a powerful way to differentiate your products and offer an added value service.

Konica Minolta Measuring Instruments offer solutions for industrial colour measurement and control to the leather industry from raw materials, dyes, sealers, and finished product QC. Colour measurement allows organisations to implement data driven process control and quality control processes that improve output quality, consistency, and save time and waste. Whether for internal controls, colour communication with your supply chain, colour matching, or remaking from a database of colours, our software solutions are supported by an experienced team who can help you to accurately specify, produce, and communicate colour.

Colour measurement applied when visiting with customers, agreeing specifications with suppliers, in development laboratories, benchmarking industry competitors, or reporting for internal quality control programs, can build supply chain relationships based on quality, consistency, reducing subjectivity from specification, and approval.

A benchtop spectrophotometer will allow the user to measure the colour of dyes, dilutions, tests, and dyed leathers, to understand the impact of processes on the final colour and to perform colour QC. The CM-36dG has several innovative features that benefit leather producers, including a built-in sample viewer camera that allows the operator to accurately measure patterned samples or test strips that have been treated differently.