The Colibri technology, which is used by companies such as BASF and Colormatrix, is claimed to accurately measure and match client standards in a streamlined process.

The 'one-stop' colour management package can also optimise pigment loading that the company said can achieve the required level of opacity.

Paul Bowman, UK general manager at Konica Minolta Sensing, said: "Colibri's level of performance is achieved by using multi-flux algorithm to match colour and opacity at the same time.

"This offers considerable improvements over the older mathematics employed in other systems, and is why Colibri has been so well received in the pigment based industries for non-opaque samples like plastics, coatings and inks."