X-Rite Incorporated, a global leader in colour science and technology, announces the Judge LED Light Booth, designed for precise visual colour evaluation as industries shift from fluorescent to energy-efficient LED lighting.
Building on 60 years of lighting innovation, this new light booth incorporates advanced LED technology to ensure compliance with environmental regulations and helps brands and suppliers transition smoothly to LED-based colour assessments, maintaining quality without operational disruptions.
The global shift to LED lighting, driven by energy efficiency mandates and governmental regulations, presents a new challenge for industries such as textiles, automotive, paint and coatings, plastics, and packaging that depend on colour accuracy. Fluorescent and LED illuminants have distinct spectral power distributions (SPD) that can dramatically impact colour perception. To maintain colour consistency across the supply chain – from design to production to retail – visual evaluation programs must integrate LED standards into their colour workflows.
Fast, Reliable and Consistent Color Assessment
The Judge LED light booth delivers precise and consistent color 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. Key features of the Judge LED light booth include:
- Instant Warm-Up: Eliminates waiting time to improve daily efficiency.
- Stabilized Illuminants: Ensures colour evaluation consistency by delivering calibrated illuminants that offer fixed intensity levels and stable chromaticity.
- Directional D65 Daylight: Facilitates defect inspection and surface evaluation for characteristics like orange peel to ensure superior product quality on complex finishes.
- Digital Evaluation: Offers an optional integrated calibrated monitor, allowing for the comparison of physical samples with digital material twins to ensure consistency between digital prototypes and physical products.
- Energy Efficient: Operates quietly, produces minimal heat, consumes less energy, and has longer lasting illuminants than fluorescent light booths.
- Standards Compliance: Meets ISO, ASTM, AATCC, and BSI visual assessment requirements.
