Review on X-Rite RM200QC Spectrocolorimeter with Imaging capabilities by Matt Morgan

If you're looking for a device that will easily match the PMS colors of your samples, this is probably the perfect option. The documentation says there are RGB, CMYK and LAB values. Well, something like that. But not really. What it does is match the closest PMS color and then give you the LAB values of the PMS color itself. It does not show the actual LAB values of the sample. For example I made a sample, scanned it, it gave me PMS color, lab values, CMYK etc. I modified the pattern a bit, reprinted, rescanned. It differed only slightly from the original scan, but different enough that you could see the difference with the naked eye. CAPSure chose the same PMS color (which I expected as the samples were quite close), but it also returned the same LAB values for both samples. That got me thinking. I called x-rite to find out for sure and they explained that THIS version of CAPSure is just a PMS color matcher. It compares the sample to its PMS catalog and then tells you the closest PMS match. It seemed to work great in that capacity. However, what it doesn't do is give you numerical values for the colors you're scanning. In that sense, it's not a spectrophotometer.