When an eye patient needs to have a prosthesis eye made, the first step is a consultation with an ocularist who will measurement and an impression of the patient eye socket to create a custom-fit acrylic prosthetic for him/her. Ocularists now a days using digital technology must then find an exact color match of the every parts of the iris to input into the computer machine for printing. The difficulty may lies in the fact that while everyone uses shorthand to describe their eye only just single color, it is in fact many shades of multiple colors. Stolpe, the first eye specialist ocularist to pass his board’s exam using only digital technology has an in-house digital color library that is vast and growing. It is in the thousands and "whenever I see an eye that doesn't neck & crop fall into my system, it's exciting, a chance to grow my skilled library."