The Judge LED light booth enables to assess and evaluate colour under standard LED light sources, aligning with new regulations and the shift toward sustainable lighting solutions.
X-Rite Incorporated has recently presented its new Judge LED light booth, a solution that has been specifically developed to ensure a precise visual colour evaluation, since many industries are shifting from fluorescent to energy-efficient LED lighting.
Driven by energy efficiency mandates and governmental regulations, the global shift to LED lighting presents a new challenge for industries such as the automotive, paint and coatings, plastics, textile and packaging sectors – that depend on colour accuracy. Fluorescent and LED illuminants have distinct spectral power distributions (SPD) that can dramatically impact colour perception. So, to maintain colour consistency across the supply chain, the visual evaluation programmes must integrate LED standards into their colour workflows.
The international manufacturer of colour science technologies has leveraged it over sixty years of experience, in order to offer a new product incorporating advanced LED technology to ensure compliance with environmental regulations and helps brands and suppliers to transition smoothly to LED-based colour assessments – maintaining quality without operational disruptions.
“The Judge LED light booth is a future-proof solution for brands and manufacturers transitioning from fluorescent lighting to comply with new energy regulations. Our custom-designed LEDs are optimised to offer the best SPD match for legacy fluorescent tubes, including U30, U35, CWF and TL84, ensuring a seamless integration into colour workflows,” has stated Albert S. Laforet, the director of the strategic projects for X-Rite. “So, it allows companies to meet regulatory requirements, ensure colour consistency and prevent colour discrepancies before final product assembly.”
The X-Rite Judge LED light booth
The Judge LED light booth offers then a precise and consistent colour evaluation with seven distinct light sources that simulate a variety of lighting conditions. The seven light sources can be selected from a wide range of industry-leading standard illuminants, including LED D50, D65, LED-B2 3000K, LED 3500K, LED-B3 4000K, UV, A, CWF LED, TL84 LED, U30 LED, and U35 LED.
The Judge LED light booth ensures an instant warm-up – eliminating waiting time and thus improving daily efficiency – as well as colour evaluation consistency, by delivering calibrated illuminants that offer fixed intensity levels and stable chromaticity. In addition, the directional D65 Daylight facilitates defect inspection and surface evaluation for characteristics like orange peel, ensuring superior product quality on complex finishes.
It also features an optional integrated calibrated monitor, allowing for the comparison of physical samples with digital material twins that ensure consistency between digital prototypes and physical products. Moreover, the Judge LED light booth operates quietly, produces minimal heat, consumes less energy and has longer lasting illuminants than fluorescent light booths. Finally, it is compliant with ISO, ASTM, AATCC, and BSI visual assessment requirements.