Color Room for Furniture Factory

Color room or color box is a special room that is specially designed to see and check the color. Color room is required in the factory or industry that is dealing with color and finishing. In the furniture factories, the color room is used to help to check and view the color to be more accurate. The furniture factories always need to check and view the color when they start developing and matching color panels that are going to be used for reference in the production. 

When the furniture factory gets a color request from its buyer, then he needs to make a color panel and finishing system to match the panel. Color development is complex work, especially when we have to match the color panel from the designer or buyer; the different substrate, the different finishing material, and the different facilities could make the matching color difficult to do. Especially when we dealing with the wood that has variation in the character and properties But the matching color is very important to start the furniture business. When the buyer orders the furniture, then he must confirm about the finishing and the color of his product, and the furniture factory must be able to do finishing to make the color.

Color inspection is very important to make sure the furniture product stays consistent during production. The correct way is the key to making the product consistently. According to color theory, the color of the object highly depends on the light that shines on it. Color theory says that the color that is visible by an object comes from the wavelengths that are reflected by the object, whereas the other wavelengths are absorbed by the object. Then actually we need a standard light to check the color to get the consistency result.

In the furniture finishing industry, usually we use the daylight as the light source when we check the color, but in fact the daylight is not the same every time. The sun's rays can be changed according to the climate and weather; the sunlight even can vary between morning, afternoon, and evening. The situation could be a problem in the matching color process, especially when we use the different substrate and finishing material. When we compared two color panels (the panel standard and the counter panel), we could get a different result every time. For example, when we check the counter color panel with the standard, sometimes we get good color matching in the morning, but when we do check the same panels in the afternoon, then they could be looked at differently. The variation can also happen when we change the location where we check the color panels.
The color room is the facility to minimize this color problem. With the color room as a standard room to do checking and viewing color, then we can minimize the environmental factors in color checking. In the color room, we use the same light, and we would have the same light every time; the light in the room will not be influenced by the day or the environmental condition.
Color room is particularly needed when we develop color panels (to be used as production standards) to match with a color panel standard (from the furniture buyer). The matching color could be difficult since usually we use different substrates and different finishing materials. In this condition, the variation in the light that hit the object could affect the color result. The color room as the standard room to check the color helps the color viewing to be more consistent and accurate. 

The color room is also help to check the product samples that will be used as references in the production. With the lights that are attached to the object, we can view the sample accurately. We can see and fine the defect and problem in the sample accurately. 

color room in the furniture finishing

How to make the color room.

Color rooms can be made in a simple way. We can build a room that is equipped with a series of lights arranged and directed to the center of the room that are used for checking color. The light used must be the natural light (the light with the same wavelength as the day light). The light bulbs there and fluorescence lamp are needed to complete the light in the color room. The adjustable switch is needed to set and adjust the light intensity.