Applied Engineering Manager DVT Corp. Color sensors coupled to interpretive software make inspection systems in packaging applications more capable and smarter than those based on grayscale images.

Existing color systems, such as RGB and CYMK, are all text-based and require a large range of values to represent different colors, making them difficult to compute and time-consuming to convert.

The author discusses a new fillm-coating system to create customized colors and the research an development tools used in conjunction with this system. This article is part of a special supplement on ...