A premise was set up entailing the possibility of a synergistical combination of advantages of spectrophotometric and colorimetric matching procedures. Attempts were therefore made to test the performances of fifteen matching procedures, all based on the Kubelka-Munk theory, including two procedures utilizing the fundamental color stimulus R_FCS of the spectral decomposition theory. Color differences CIE ΔE_00 as well as concentration differences ΔC_AVE were used to theoretically rank the fifteen color matching procedures. Results showed that procedures based on R_FCS were superior in accurately predicting colors and concentrations. Additionally, the metameric black component R_MB of the decomposition theory also showed promise in predicting degrees of metamerism. This preliminary study, therefore, provides evidence for the premise of this investigation.