ARRANGEMENT FOR COLOR DETECTION IN MAP-PLOTTING OR OTHER PRINTED MATERIALS

The invention relates to an arrangement for color detection when evaluating printed materials, maps or the like in that a color pattern under investigation is arranged substantially in the plane of a reference color pattern and both being cyclicly detected by an opto-electronic detection unit. The detector, itself consists of only one opto-electronic transducer comprising a plurality of detecting faces which receive the color informations from an illumination source reflected at both color patterns. The opto-electronic transducer is followed by an evaluation electronic means which compares the reference color pattern and the investigated color pattern and associates the respective patterns.