DigiEye

The Society of Dyers & Colourists, the world's only chartered professional body and educational charity dedicated to advancing the science, technology and application of colour held their biggest ever colour technology exhibition at the Marriott Forest of Arden Hotel, Meriden, UK on October 22nd and attracted support from 20 organisations.

Exhibition of DigiEye

DigiEye exhibited their innovative non-contact digital imaging system alongside the awards dinner sponsor VeriVide Limited and were represented by the DigiEye Sales & Marketing Director, Susan Williams.

Susan was also one of the conference speakers and with a conference theme of 'Right Colour - Right Time - Right Place', the Society had certainly invited the 'right people' from the 'right companies' to lead the delegates through an interesting mix of lectures on what turned out to be the 'right subject'.

Conference Speaker – Susan Williams of DigiEye

Susan talk entitled ‘Is the Colour all that it Appears to be?' explained that when intricate fabrics, garments or accessories are involved, communicating colour is not enough. She also described how the use of digital imaging can give digital colour, texture and appearance.

Andrew Filarowski of The Society of Dyers and Colourists reports on Susan’s talk

“Susan Williams, DigiEye plc, described how DigiEye can be used to measure colour on the unmeasurables, for example, prints and knits, denim and complex designs and how DigiEye uses digital imaging in a controlled illuminated cabinet and a calibrated screen producing high resolution images.

The system can also be used to assess the staining of multifibre strips and the change in shade associated with many fastness tests in a system called autograding to aid communication of this information and remove the possibility of human observer error from the system.

The results of ring tests of visual assessment versus DigiEye showed good correlation and a marked improvement in agreement by the use of DigiEye.”

The day came to a close with the glittering awards dinner, during which the winners were announced for the 2004 SDC Colour in Design Competition and SDC Innovation in Colour Award, the latter of which, DigiEye were one of the five finalists.

Other finalists included the Innovative 'Virtual Garment' process from ColourMaster Images and the Electrochemical Dyeing Process from Dystar in collaboration with Thies and the University of Innsbruck in Austria which won the award.

OCTOBER 2004