User's Manual

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Spectrophotometer
By default, Color Kit automatically detects the connected spectrophotometer. If you always connect
your spectrophotometer to the same port, you could specify the port name in the spectrophotometer
tab of the preferences dialog box in order to speed up the automatic detection.
Color Settings
Color Kit offers a number of dialog boxes where you can specify the illuminant under which the color
match is done, e.g. the Compare tool, Gamut View, device links and color strategies. If the illuminant
under which you are matching colors is different from D50, e.g. D65, you can specify this in the Color
Settings tab and all dialog boxes will come up with this selection as default. You can only match under
an illuminant different from ‘CIE Illuminant D50’ if you use profiles with spectral data. This is not the
case for ICC profiles.
In a number of dialog boxes the quality of a color match is indicated with a number. In the past this
number was calculated with the classical CIELab DeltaE formula also known as Delta E 76. Now you
can select between 5 different formulas: CIELab DeltaE (classical), Delta E 94, Delta E 2000, CMC