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Defining A Colour For Paint

pinkfloydian · 2020-02-19 15:59:07

Hi, I have a swatch of a colour that I want to match exactly. I thought there were outlets with scanners that could give an exact RAL (or other reference) number from a scanned sample. Is this possible and if so, where in north Dublin can I get this done? I'm not interested in trying to match to a colour pallette, as I…

19-02-2020 4:59pm

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pinkfloydian

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Hi,

I have a swatch of a colour that I want to match exactly. I thought there were outlets with scanners that could give an exact RAL (or other reference) number from a scanned sample.

Is this possible and if so, where in north Dublin can I get this done?

I'm not interested in trying to match to a colour pallette, as I want the exact colour.

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#2 19-02-2020 5:29pm

Graham

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You want a paint shop with a spectrophotometer colour matching/tinting service.

Don't expect to necessarily get a matching RAL colour. There actually aren't that many colours in the RAL palette.

I assume you're trying to get paint rather than just get the colour of a paint for some other purpose.

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