For some users, it may be necessary to add Hazchem identification to your labels. This is now possible in the Label Design area.

Simply turn on the Hazchem No row and click Save, and it will appear on your large label the next time you refresh the page.

XpressTint is able to remember every job that you make, simply by pressing the Job Complete button at bottom of the Formula Recipe. Along with this, you are able to save vital information to the job, such as Customer Notes, who you made the paint for, what it was used on, when it was created, how much the paint cost, exactly what was in it – plus a host of other details.

To start using the new History page and all of its features, just “Complete” a job! Just look for the Job Complete button at the bottom of the page and click it.

This will bring up the Job Card, where you can enter as much or as little information as you’d like. XpressTint remembers all the finer details like what tinters you used, how much the job cost, etc.

 Enter tags to quickly “sum-up” a job. Tags can be anything like “Kitchen”, “Glass”, “640 30%”, “Customers Name”… anything that describes the job. This adds categories to History that you can easily sort colours that should be grouped together.

When you need to find the colour again, you can go to your History page, by clicking on the History link located at the top of each page. XpressTint sorts them chronologically, but you can type a search in the search field to refine your query. Below is a list of some recent jobs that I have created. They are neatly arranged as Job Cards so you can see a quick overview of all the most recent jobs you have created. You can Filter these by typing in the Fitler bar. This will instantly refine your results.

Clicking on one of the jobs, will bring up the Job Information page. Here you can view all the specifics of the job that you recently completed. It will even show you the formula and the cost, as well as any information you saved with it. A helpful colour swatch is also displayed if available to help you remember what the colour looked like.

If there are things you would like to add to the History page, such as features or workflow improvements, then we’d love to hear from you. Leave your thoughts in the comments below.

Update: A bug in the “Save to” command prevented all default job details saving correctly to the History page, this has now been fixed.

We’ve been working hard on implementing another piece to the XpressTint puzzle – Online Shopping.

With XpressTint Online Shopping you are free to buy your products whenever you want, at better prices than you’d expect!

All of the products are grouped into easy to view families and arranged to help you find what you need quickly. Look for the multiple quantities brackets at the top of the page to save even more. When you buy more in a family then you qualify for bigger savings – that’s any product variation in the family!

In the example above, I have purchased 6 solvents altogether, so I get them at the 6-Buy price!

You can see why we used this exaggerated stock image of an overly-happy shopper.

 

Creating a colour in XpressTint is as simple as following a recipe for a cake.

Paul, our resident “Paint Chef”, cooked up this delicious Pink Linen formula, in 660A Gloss Medium Solids polyurethane on our XpressTint machine. We’ve sped up certain parts of the video for so you don’t fall asleep, but Paul, (we can’t show you his face on television), created it in 6 minutes and 32 seconds.

When creating a recipe, Paul always keeps his formula handy to refer back to, and since he prefers to read the exact amount of each colourant rather than the running total, he is careful to tare the scales after each measurement. This allows him to quickly add colourant, and remove any heavy-handed additions with a spatula.

Finding a particular formula couldn’t be easier in Xpress Tint.

Simply click on the Search page and start typing the name of the colour. You results will instantly appear in the drop-down Search Results box.

You can then keep typing to refine your search results, or once you see it, simply click on it to bring up the Product Selection tool.

Once you have selected your colour, click on the product you wish to create it in. The formula will instantly appear with accurate instructions for mixing, creating and curing. It’s easier than baking a cake!