The heart of every good formula is the ability to be reproduced time and time again. Colours should be able to be made in a myriad of sizes and products and inherit the same unique tone and hue as what the original artist or manufacturer intended.
Whenever you create a colour in a larger can size, the colour retention of the formula is naturally more accurate. There are lower margins of error and lower tolerance issues to have to overcome. When you make a lower colour, the tolerance and margin for error rise dramatically.
Thankfully, however, we’ve created XpressTint to overcome this, by designing Low Strength colourants to complement High Strength colourants.
When you create a colour that is too small to accurately use the High Strength colourants, XpressTint intelligently switches to Low Strength colourants – colourants that are 20 times as strong, so you can be that much more accurate, effectively retaining the same low margin for error.
In the example below of Lexicon Quarter, XpressTint shows us two different formulas, with two different sets of colourants. The first is a small volume of 250mL, (or 0.25L), and the second is much bigger, 14L. When you resize the volume, XpressTint recognises the need to resize as well, and converts to the Low Strength tinter at strategic levels so that you can continue to accurately weigh your measurements.
XpressTint will always tell you when to use Low Strength colourants instead of High Strength, so there is no need to worry about what to use.
