Cortex is the profiling platform developed by ColorBase. For 23 years we made printer profiles by hand in our own lab. We used that work to train a network of models, and Cortex now predicts the results we used to measure and build by hand.
Trained on how ink, material and light interact
Every material takes ink differently. On textile the ink goes into the fibers, on canvas it is held by the coating, and on vinyl it stays close to the surface. Solvent, UV, latex and dye-sublimation inks each build up in their own way.
Light that hits a print partly reflects off the surface and partly passes through the ink, then bounces back from the material underneath. The white of the material, its texture and optical brighteners all change the color you see. Cortex learned these effects from our measurements, so it can predict combinations of printer, ink and material that were never profiled.
