datacolor|TECHKON announces release of ChromaQA 7.5, its award-winning color management suite for printers & brands

datacolor|TECHKON announced today that a new update of its color QA management suite is now available. ChromaQA 7.5 arrives with new features and enhancements.

DANVERS, MA, UNITED STATES, October 14, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — ChromaQA 7.5 is now available, bringing 18 new features and enhancements across SPEC, PRESS, STANDARDS, ADMIN, and SmartINK. Highlights include the ability to specify measurement locations within artwork, import color standards from an ICC profile, customize drawdown reports, and create multiple ScoreCards.

Across the ChromaQA suite, version 7.5 gives users more control over how color standards are created, measured, evaluated, and reported. The release also expands support for PantoneLIVE, Colibri colorant sets, SmartINK corrections, and SpectroCheck calibration reporting, helping printers and brands simplify everyday color quality workflows.

In detail:
Specify Measurement Locations within Artwork
When creating templates in Chroma Spec, it is now possible to upload a PDF or JPG image of the printed artwork. This not only allows the press operator to have visual confirmation of the print job but also enables the user to specify the exact measurement locations inside the image after selecting the color standards.

Importing Color Standards from ICC Profile
When building job templates in Chroma Spec, the option now exists to import print standards directly from an ICC profile (in addition to importing from Chroma Standards, PantoneLIVE or GMG OpenColor). CIELab values and TVI curves can be imported. ICC v2 and v4 are supported, as well as CMYK and multi-channel profiles.

Drawdown Reports in Chroma Standards
Customized drawdown reports can now be created in Chroma Standards with just a few clicks, printed or saved as PDF to easily share with end customers.

Change Illuminants/Observer for PantoneLIVE colors
When accessing PantoneLIVE colors in Chroma Standards, we added the ability to select your illuminant/observer combination. Once set, ChromaQA will target the CIELab values for the illuminant/observer combination you selected while taking samples.

New reporting metric: Substrate Opacity
Substrate Opacity is now a new metric available in Chroma Press. Turn it on when creating a color bar and set the aim opacity value and tolerance in the template; press operators then must measure over white and black and the opacity will be displayed and attached to the job results.

Multiple ScoreCards support & other enhancements
Multiple ScoreCards can now be created and customized for the different scoring requirements (e.g. in-house scoring, GMI, brand specific) using Chroma Admin. Additionally, a new feature allows to set upper limit thresholds that no single color can exceed. This new feature provides greater flexibility, helping to detect problems immediately that might otherwise be hidden by only using averaged values.

Ability to disable Color Channels in color bar
A new ability to disable colors from standard color bars has been introduced. This allows the user to work with fewer color bar layouts.

SmartInk support Colibri colorant sets
You can now import a Colibri colorant set and ChromaQA will automatically create a colorant set for use within SmartInk, saving time and eliminating the need to create new drawdowns.

SpectroCheck enhancements
SpectroCheck now supports a report displaying reference values, measured values and deltaE values after calibrating the device. This additional documentation is helpful for ISO compliance.

Other noteworthy enhancements include:

• SmartInk corrections are now even more precise when using the “Show in Cups” feature. All corrections are automatically rounded to ¼ cup and recalculated, showing the precise predicted deltaE.
• Color Book sorting is now supported in Chroma Standards. Color books can be sorted by Name, as well as Date Created and Modified, making it more convenient to work with large color book collections.
• Master templates can now be created in Chroma Spec, simplifying the previous process of duplicating existing templates.
• Individual Color deltaE tolerances can now be defined in Chroma Standards. If individual tolerances are set, they will override the global value set in the template.

About datacolor|TECHKON
datacolor|TECHKON is the innovation leader in densitometers, spectrophotometers and color software solutions for the global print community. With a track record of nearly 40 years of continued technological excellence, datacolor|TECHKON products are chosen for their high degree of measurement accuracy, repeatability, reliability and ease of operation in all sectors of the printing industry. Techkon’s innovative color measurement solutions have led to highly successful implementations by leading OEM press manufacturers, brand owners, and large commercial printers, yielding drastic gains in quality, productivity and cost savings. datacolor|TECHKON is a subsidiary of Datacolor AG.

For more information, please visit our website at techkon.datacolor.com.

Martin van Balkom
datacolor|TECHKON
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