COLOUR SERVICES

Over 20 years experience in colour management and quality control for the manufacturing and design industries. We specialise in automotive, design, packaging, food, textiles, building products, agriculture, coatings, plastic and paint.

We can help control your colour and appearance of your product from the design stage right throught to the end product - Is the colour you're getting the colour you really want?

Accurate colour standards

By using NCS colour standards for the colour communication you will also have the possibility of achieving the colour you want. Our colour samples have the highest quality on the market. Any colour outside the standard range of 1 950 NCS can be produced.

Colour Tolerance Tools

Tolerance guides are a visual aid to check and determine whether the colours of different materials and products are within the acceptable visual colour range. We can help you determine suitable tolerance limits, design and produce the guides for your specific colours.

Colour Aptitude Skill Exercises

This set comprises eight Colour Aptitude Skill Development Exercises i.e. blue, green, red, yellow, purple, violet, white and black sets. For the six chromatic exercises (blue, green, red, yellow, purple and violet) there are 27 samples (A9) which have to be arranged in order of chroma, hue and lightness. There are a similar number in the white set and 30 (A9) for the black set.

Individuals can work on the exercises without supervision. Lighting should be controlled and we recommend a Colour Assessment Cabinet with CIE Daylight Illumination D65. Each sample is randomly numbered and an ‘answer’ sheet for each colour set is included.

Colour Aptitude Testing

Aptitude Testing is necessary to ensure that the company personnel have the skills to make vital visual colour assessments. The aptitude testing constists of a series of test to issolate the different levels of a individuals ability to match and judge differences in colour. It is extremely important for people working with colour daily to under go the testing. Anyone selection, matching or specifing colours should be tested for colour vision deficiencies. Disaproval of finished work can cause lose of money, respect and valuable time for your company.

Aptitude testing is for individuals working with colour such as: Artists, Architects, Designers, Engineers, Manufacturing and Marketing Personnel.

The trained supervisors from NHPL have all carried out these tests, scoring excellent results. NHPL have been running aptitude testing throughout Australia and internationally for the past five years. We have conducted over 200 tests to a wide range of industries including automotive, building, plastic, food and design. Download Brochure

COLOUR SEMINAR
For Manufacturing and Design Industries

Colour measurement vs visual colour assessment. The intensive seminars will provide an insight into the influence of colour, the problems associated with visual colour perception and association of colour with quality. To gain the full benefits of colour measurement and visual colour assessment it is important that one understands the inter-relationship between the two techniques and also fundamental colour theory.

Colour plays an important role in our daily lives particularly with regards to perceptions of a product’s quality.

Both visual colour assessment and instrumental colour measurement play an integral part in controlling colour quality in a wide range of industries. Quality control is a vital part of the manufacturing process in any industry. The demand for colour and appearance harmony is of a high order to endorse the perceived quality of a product.

“Easy to understand: made a very difficult topic understandable for us ‘non-colour’ professionals and was totally applied to our industry”

A Symons Heinz Australia
In House Seminar

BENEFITS

• A greater understanding of the colour theory for colour measurement and quality control.
• Develop the skills needed to systematically arrange, describe and communicate the properties of colours.
• An understanding of 3D Colour Space and Equations.
• The aim of the workshop is to increase your awareness on what influences visual colour assessment.
• An understanding of surface appearance theory and measurement techniques.
• Better colour communication between colleagues and suppliers resulting in less time lost due to misunderstanding in relation to specifications and design briefs.

IN HOUSE SEMINARS

Have everyone talking the same colour language! Colour communication between colleagues, suppliers and customers is vital in increasing productivity and decreasing rejected batches saving a lot of money. We have run a wide variety of specially designed one day seminars for companies and their suppliers. Run with our very successful one day seminars or we can work with you in designing a seminar to suit you company’s requirements:

Colour Modules:

• Colour Order,
• Colour Combinations,
• Influences of Colour,
• Colour Vision,
• Visual Colour Assessment
• Colour Measurement,
• Colour Space:
• CIE Lab, CMC, de 2000

We are currently working on our seminar programme and will be expanding our choice of workshops and seminars.

Colour Science Posters

This set comprises four A3 size wall posters illustrating the CIE L*a*b* diagram, Metamerism, Different Colour Difference Equations, CIE L*a*b* Equations, Different Measuring Geometries and the CIE Colour Wheel compared to the Perceptual Colour Wheel. The posters have been designed as a ‘quick’ graphical reference to often asked colour measurement questions