![]() There’s an app for that (naturally)Īlmost every major brand of paint has a free app to help you nail a shade you’ve forgotten the name of. Use that fabric to then find the corresponding paint chip in the hardware store. “Maybe the color is one of several in a print pillow, or maybe the color matches a piece of clothing in your closet,” says Levin. Or a swatch of fabricĪnother way to match color without a paint chip is to find the shade you need on a piece of fabric in your house. Bring that spool to the paint store, and ask staff to match the color. Once you have a range of spools, place them against your paint color and see which is the best match. If you don’t routinely sew, buy several different shades that seem close at your neighborhood crafts store. ![]() This mindset proved crucially valuable as a flat-rate painter where nothing is faster or more profitable than accuracy: doing it right the first time.“Maybe you have the various spools in your house,” says Sandy Levin, home staging expert and owner of Beautiful Interiors Design Group in Freehold, NJ. Without realizing it, this was laying the foundation of the ethos of doing things right the first time. For example, if one of us boys busted through the back door, slamming it in haste, we were told, “Go back and close that door properly!” Never mind it was already closed and we were in a hurry - there was always time to go back and do it right. Also fortunate for me, I grew up in a household where we were taught to do things right. Decades later as a professional automotive painter, I saw the same blissful ignorance in youngsters eager to start painting their own stuff.įortunately for me, my father was in the industry, and as it was both his job and his hobby, I had no shortage of examples of the repair/refinish process - Dad always had a project of sorts going on at home. We believe that our customers will view MeasureColor Mobile as a revolutionary advancement in color matching.”Īs a kid wanting to paint his bicycle, I had no idea of the work that lay ahead. “They understood PPG’s desire to address our customers’ requirements in a unique way and provided the innovations that allow the capability to move critical color projects along as speedily as possible. “The MeasureColor Mobile program was developed with support from the MeasureColor team – leaders in the field with this type of software and device,” Podlas said. All search results are displayed in a clear, easy-to-read format and then stored for sharing or archival purposes. In addition, the search results give distributors access to the business unit website for easy retrieval of datasheets or SDS information. In the case of powders, resin chemistry is provided and the tool advises customers if the selected color is a stock or make-to-order color. Podlas added that the cloud-based tool also provides ordering information such as the brand code, color name and gloss range. The compare feature allows a customer to consider the difference between two colors – an original part and a recently painted component, for example, within a Delta E measurement of 0.50. The tool’s search feature scans a customer’s color and immediately searches the library of Commercial Performance Coatings colors to see if an acceptable color already exists, thereby eliminating the need for a custom color match. As a color retrieval device, it is classified in a category of tools called colorimeters.”Īccording to Podlas, the MeasureColor Mobile tool offers several valuable features and benefits: The two features he believes will be used most often are Color Search and Color Compare. ![]() “The MeasureColor Mobile device is about the size of a flashlight battery and can be used on nearly any surface – metal, plastic, wood and even soft surfaces – to capture color. “This is a color measurement system that provides our customers with a quick and precise way to identify potential color matches while eliminating time-consuming color formulation work and allows our distributors to provide liquid or powder colors more quickly to the end-user,” said Steve Podlas, PPG brand manager, industrial segments, U.S. The customer then has immediate access to thousands of colors in PPG’s industrial powder and liquid coatings libraries. MeasureColor Mobile, available in the United States and Canada, combines cloud technology with a handheld, Bluetooth-enabled scanning device to read a color, interpret the data and quickly send the closest PPG color match to the app on a customer’s tablet or smartphone. The commercial coatings division of PPG has launched MeasureColor Mobile, a color-matching app that brings thousands of colors to customers’ fingertips in a matter of seconds, coupled with a small colorimeter to read the target color.
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