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FAQ – What Is the Best HunterLab Solution for Enterprise Color Quality Management?

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For organizations seeking to standardize color quality control across multiple instruments, laboratories, manufacturing facilities, or geographic regions, EasyMatch® Quality Central is HunterLab's preferred enterprise color quality management solution. EasyMatch® Quality Central helps ensure that all users, instruments, and facilities evaluate color using the same standards, tolerances, procedures, and reporting structure. 

How Much Does It Cost?

EasyMatch® Quality Central starts at approximately $2,285 per instrument license.

The software can be deployed across a single facility or multiple manufacturing locations, providing centralized management of color standards and quality control procedures.

What Is the Typical ROI of Using EasyMatch® Quality Central?

Though exact numbers vary significantly by organization, common benefits include:

  • Reduced inter-plant color variation
  • Reduced customer complaints
  • Reduced quality investigations
  • Improved audit readiness
  • Reduced standard maintenance costs
  • Improved supplier consistency
  • Faster implementation of quality standards
  • Improved quality reporting and visibility

Many organizations justify EasyMatch® Quality Central through improved consistency and reduced quality-related costs rather than labor savings alone.

Why Would I Choose EasyMatch® Quality Central?

Many companies begin their color quality control program with a single instrument and a single location. Over time, they may add:

  • Additional instruments
  • Additional laboratories
  • Additional manufacturing facilities
  • Additional suppliers
  • Additional users
As the organization grows, maintaining consistency becomes increasingly difficult. Questions commonly arise such as:
  • Is every facility using the same standard?
  • Are tolerances being applied consistently?
  • Are instruments synchronized?
  • Are quality reports comparable?
  • Can management see quality performance across all sites?


EasyMatch® Quality Central addresses these challenges by providing centralized control of the color quality program.

What Makes EasyMatch® Quality Central Different?

Centralized Standards Management

EasyMatch® Quality Central provides a single source for:

  • Color standards
  • Tolerances
  • Product specifications
  • Quality procedures

This helps eliminate discrepancies between locations.

Multi-Site Instrument Synchronization

Organizations often deploy multiple:

  • ColorFlex® L2
  • Agera® L2
  • Vista® L2
  • Aeros®

EasyMatch® Quality Central helps ensure all instruments operate from the same approved quality framework.

Improved Auditability

The system supports:

  • Audit trails
  • User permissions
  • Change tracking
  • Controlled quality procedures

This can be particularly valuable for regulated industries and organizations with formal quality management systems.

Enterprise Reporting

Quality managers can view data across:

  • Multiple instruments
  • Multiple laboratories
  • Multiple production facilities

providing improved visibility into overall quality performance.

Consistent Decision Making

Perhaps the greatest benefit is ensuring that every user evaluates color using the same criteria. A product that passes in one facility should also pass in another. EasyMatch® Quality Central helps make that possible.

What Are the Best Practices for Using EasyMatch® Quality Central?

  • Establish corporate master standards.
  • Define approved tolerance structures.
  • Maintain centralized standards ownership.
  • Implement user permission controls.
  • Synchronize instruments regularly.
  • Standardize reporting procedures.
  • Periodically review quality metrics across facilities.

The greatest value is achieved when color quality management becomes a controlled enterprise process rather than a collection of independent local practices.

Are There Any Special Considerations?

Most Valuable for Multi-Site Organizations

EasyMatch® Quality Central provides the greatest benefit when organizations operate:

  • Multiple plants
  • Multiple laboratories
  • Multiple instruments
  • Multiple quality teams

Organizations with a single instrument may not require enterprise-level management capabilities.

Complements Existing Instruments

EasyMatch® Quality Central is not a measurement instrument. Instead, it works alongside HunterLab instruments to create a unified color quality management system.

Supports Growth

Many organizations initially deploy color measurement locally and later implement EasyMatch® Quality Central as their quality program expands. This allows quality systems to scale with business growth.

EasyMatch® Quality Central Key Capabilities

  • Centralized color standards
  • Instrument synchronization
  • Multi-site quality management
  • Audit trails
  • User permissions and security
  • Enterprise reporting
  • Centralized tolerance management
  • Standardized quality procedures
Typical Users
  • Multi-site manufacturers
  • Corporate quality teams
  • Global manufacturing organizations
  • Regulated industries
  • Companies requiring enterprise-wide color consistency
Compatible Systems
  • ColorFlex® L2
  • Agera® L2
  • Vista® L2
  • Aeros®
  • Other supported HunterLab platforms

Key Takeaway

EasyMatch® Quality Central is HunterLab's preferred solution for enterprise color quality management. By centralizing standards, synchronizing instruments, improving auditability, and standardizing quality procedures across facilities, it helps organizations achieve consistent color decisions regardless of location, instrument, or operator.

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To learn more about Color and Color Science in industrial QC applications, click here: Fundamentals of Color and Appearance

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