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IMO using a polarizing filter for color measurement creates as many issues as it tries to solve. Unless you use a polarizing filter at every color measurement step after ink formulating you introduce a change in correlation between samples you are comparing. I'm not saying it won't work but it...

That is great information D Ink Man. I've pasted it into my Evernote account for future reference. However the original post mentions inkjet application rather than custom ink formulation. Can you speak to what pigments are typically in the inkjet systems out there? Thanks, Will

Sorry. I wasn't speaking about the base colors. The added Plus colors are generally lower chroma because they have black and/or 3 bases in them. thanks, Will

I don't disagree with the comment about sales claims but there might be something else going on. If you look at a Pantone Plus formula guide you can see that most of the new colors that were added are combinations of 3 bases often with black as a 4th ingredient. These colors are lower in...

"One simple argument I've heard is that: we see the effect of optical brightners - so why would you cut it?" The problem is that devices see the effect of the optical brighteners differently than our eyes do. We see the paper as brighter and whiter, the spectrophotometer sees it as more blue...