Patent ID: 8568016

Claim:
A mobile paint factory for producing a plurality of lines of paints from a plurality of prepaints en route to and/or at various locations, the mobile paint factory comprising: a vehicle; a paint production system located on the vehicle, the paint production system comprising a plurality of supply reservoirs, a plurality of prepaints stored in the plurality of supply reservoirs, wherein none of the prepaints are paints, at least one receiving reservoir for receiving at least two of the plurality of prepaints; a control coupled to the paint production system; a local data storage device coupled to the control, wherein the local data storage device is used to store information about paints made from the plurality of prepaints; a gloss meter coupled to the control; a spectrometer coupled to the control; a colorant system located on the vehicle and coupled to the spectrometer, wherein the colorant system is used to dispense paint colorant; and a touchscreen coupled to the control, wherein the touchscreen displays a prompt asking the user to select a value for a paint attribute on a slider.