The Effect of Spectrophotometer Geometry on the Measured Colors for Textile Samples with Different Textures

Spectrophotometers are usually built based on one of these two kinds of geometry; d/8 (diffuse/8) and 45/0. Considering that measured or observed colors depend on the illuminating and viewing conditions, the 45/0 spectrophotometer geometry or d/8 geometry affects the results. In addition, the sample characteristics such as gloss or texture can also influence the measuring results. Therefore, the effect of geometry will be affected by the characteristics of the sample. In this paper, the effect of spectrophotometer geometry on the result of color measurement is investigated for textile samples with different types of texture. In addition, the effect of texture on the measured colors was compared for two geometries. To this end, 63 polyester samples contained of 9 color centers each of them has 7 different types of texture were used. The spectral reflectance data of the fabrics were measured using two spectrophotometers with different geometry; d/8 and 45/0. Other parameters of the two measuring systems such as the aperture size, laboratory conditions, the sample’s direction in front of the spectrophotometer and the number of specimen’s layers were equal. The measured values of two instruments were compared. It was shown that the spectrophotometer geometry influences the color coordinates of the samples. The d/8 spectrophotometer with include mode usually gives larger lightness values. C and H values are affected by the type of spectrophotometer and this effect is dependent on the color center of the sample. In another part of the present study, the color change via the texture difference was evaluated for each of the two geometries, and the obtained results were compared with each other. It was found that the surface texture of the sample influences the measured color from 0.4 to about 4.8 CIEDE2000 (1:1:1) unit for both two types of the spectrophotometer. Moreover, as same as d/8 geometry, the color change via the texture which is measured by 45/0 shows no acceptable correlation with visual assessments.