See attached document from Ken Butt’s paper on the subject of measurement procedure, variation and technique.

"Color Measurement Methods for Textile Fabrics.pdf"

• color_measurement_methods_for_textile_fabrics.pdf

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3. I am getting Overflow error or math errors in Datacolor Tools
4. How can I calibrate the UV content in my Spectrophotometer to measure Whiteness?
5. Datacolor QTX File Specification
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17. Is our Datacolor Tools 1.x software going to work with Windows7 ?
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21. Strength methods in Datacolor Tools 2.x
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28. Emailing measurement data from Tools QC
29. How to print forms in Tools?
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37. How to change Tolerance Limit?
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