The new intel­li­gence in
gloss mea­sure­ment

The micro-gloss has been the unsur­passed indus­try stan­dard in gloss mea­sure­ment for many years. It is the only gloss­me­ter com­bin­ing high­est accu­racy, ease-of-use and mul­ti­ple func­tio­n­al­ity - essen­tial for today`s test­ing require­ments.

Bril­liant design and easy-to-use 

Ergo­nomics and easy han­dling were the main focus for the design. The micro-gloss is not too large and not too small - it feels just right in your hand. The scroll wheel  oper­a­tion, mul­ti­lin­gual dis­play and easy to navi­gate menu make gloss mea­sure­ment easier than ever before.

Auto diag­no­sis:
Stan­dard OK - Cal­i­bra­tion OK

Accu­rate read­ings require reli­able cal­i­bra­tion. The  gloss meter and cal­i­bra­tion holder make a per­fect cou­ple: the cal­i­bra­tion stan­dard is always pro­tected in the holder of the micro-gloss.
 
Unique is the intel­li­gent auto diag­no­sis of the gloss meter which guar­an­tees long-term sta­ble cal­i­bra­tion and tells you when to cal­i­brate. It even checks whether the stan­dard is clean. Oper­a­tor friendly. Safe.

Gloss of paint or metal - no problem
With the micro-gloss gloss meter you can mea­sure any mate­rial - paints, plas­tics or highly reflec­tive met­als. Its expanded mea­sure­ment range of up to 2000 gloss units guar­an­tees always reli­able results - accord­ing to inter­na­tio­nal stan­dards.

High­est accu­racy guar­an­teed
The long-term sta­ble LED light source of the gloss­me­ter pro­vides not only highly repeat­able results for many years, but also will never burn out. We even give a 10 year war­ranty on the lamp life.

micro-gloss

wire­less data trans­fer

Vari­ous mea­sure­ment modes
for effi­cient QC

Dif­fer­ent tasks require dif­fer­ent tools. The easy to turn scroll wheel of the gloss­me­ter quickly shows you all needed func­tions - even with­out a PC:

Check uni­for­mity on the sam­ple?
> Cont­in­u­ous mode. With Min. and Max.

Com­pare the gloss dif­fer­ence to the tar­get?
> Dif­fer­ence mode. With Pass/Fail.

Aver­age sev­eral read­ings per panel?
> Statis­tic mode. With all sta­tis­ti­cal data.
    Num­ber of read­ings per sam­ple are selectable.

Or just quickly check the gloss of a few sam­ples?
The Basic mode is your tool.

Fast and pro­fes­sio­nal doc­u­men­ta­tion

Every mea­sure­ment series can be saved in the gloss­me­ter under its own name. Input of sam­ple names can be done quickly with the scroll wheel.

The included easy-link soft­ware allows direct data trans­fer to Excel® with your results imme­di­ately shown in a pro­fes­sio­nal QC-report.

Statis­tic mode

Basic mode

Dif­fer­ence mode

Cont­in­u­ous mode

Data trans­fer with cable
or wire­less

Now data can be sent to your PC via USB-inter­face or Blue­tooth^® wire­less tech­nol­ogy. The wire­less con­nec­tion trans­fers data from the gloss­me­ter within a dis­tance of 10 meters (33 feet).

Blue­tooth® is a reg­is­tered trade­mark owned by Blue­tooth SIG, Inc.

See changes under the right angle -
always and right away

High - medium - low gloss: What is your appli­ca­tion?
micro-TRI-gloss com­bines 20°, 60°, 85° in one gloss­me­ter - as handy as the one angle unit. Hav­ing three geome­tries in one unit allows you to be in com­pliance with inter­na­tio­nal stan­dards and to quickly rec­og­nize qual­ity vari­a­tions.

All selected angles mea­sure at the same loca­tion and the results are dis­played ins­tantly - includ­ing Statis­tics, Dif­fer­ence or Pass/Fail.
The micro-TRI-gloss has all func­tions of the new gloss­me­ter gen­er­a­tion read­ily at hand.

In order to obtain dif­fer­ences clearly over the whole range from matte to high gloss, three mea­sure­ment geome­tries were spe­c­i­fied in inter­na­tio­nal gloss­me­ter stan­dards. Each geome­try is opti­mized for a spe­cific gloss range.

micro-TRI-gloss

The micro-gloss fam­ily:
Overview of func­tions

              Gloss­me­ters for tough­est
              QC require­ments

Auto­mo­tive inte­rior design is becom­ing more and more impor­tant in purchas­ing deci­sion. A vari­ety of mate­rials, from leather to plas­tics, are used and need to be har­monized. Addi­tio­n­ally, sur­face struc­tures vary from large grains to fine stip­ples, usu­ally with very low gloss. In order to guar­an­tee a uni­form look among the vari­ous parts very tight tol­er­ances are spe­c­i­fied.

As a start­ing point mas­ter stan­dard plaques are usu­ally man­u­fac­tured with flat and sev­eral grained areas. These are sent to parts sup­pli­ers as their tar­get to achieve with actual pro­duc­tion parts.
As the mas­ter plaques and final parts are often made of dif­fer­ent mate­rials the sup­pli­ers work closely with the car maker. In the end final appro­val is given on a pro­duc­tion part. This pro­duc­tion part now becomes the stan­dard for the sup­plier.

Instead of work­ing with abso­lute gloss num­bers, sup­plier pro­duc­tion QC needs to be based on the signed-off part where only the dif­fer­ences are checked with the gloss­me­ter. This pro­ce­dure elim­i­nates the repro­du­ci­bil­ity error as gloss is mea­sured rel­a­tively on the same type of mate­rial and same sur­face.

micro-gloss S fam­ily

Only test­ing instru­ments with excel­lent pre­ci­sion will be able to objec­tively con­trol pro­duc­tion. The new micro-gloss S fam­ily offers improved per­for­mance for 60° gloss in the crit­i­cal low gloss range (0-10 GU). This excel­lent accu­racy can be guar­an­teed due to our patented cal­i­bra­tion pro­ce­dure in the pro­duc­tion of the gloss­me­ters.

• For any mate­rial: paint, plas­tics or highly reflec­tive met­als
• Long-term sta­ble cal­i­bra­tion and auto­matic check of cal­i­bra­tion stan­dard
• Tem­per­a­ture sta­ble data
• 10 year war­ranty on the light source
• Dif­fer­ence and Pass/Fail
• Statis­tics and Mem­ory (999 read­ings)
• Easy menu oper­a­tion with scroll wheel
• easy-link soft­ware for direct trans­fer to Excel®
• Data trans­fer from the gloss­me­ter to the PC via
  USB or Blue­tooth® wire­less tech­nol­ogy

micro-gloss 75°:  Spe­cial­ized gloss­me­ter for paper,
paper­board and struc­tured plas­tic e.g. vinyl sid­ing.

Mul­ti­ple func­tio­n­al­ity for any task
- and easy to use

• Cont­in­u­ous mode for uni­for­mity eval­u­a­tion
  over large areas.
• Dif­fer­ence and Pass/Fail for inspec­tion and QC.
• Statis­tics with aver­age, stan­dard devi­a­tion, min/max
  and range. Large mem­ory for 999 read­ings.
• Pro­fes­sio­nal doc­u­men­ta­tion and direct trans­fer to Excel®
  with included easy-link soft­ware.
• Data trans­fer via USB or 
  Blue­tooth® wire­less tech­nol­ogy.

micro-gloss 45°/75°

Gloss Mea­sure­ment for
Spe­cific Appli­ca­tions

micro-gloss 45°:  Spe­cial­ized gloss­me­ter for ceram­ics,
plas­tics and plas­tic films.

Spe­cific appli­ca­tions require spe­cific mea­sur­ing angles. micro-gloss 45° and 75° are now avai­l­able in the new gloss meter design with its proven ben­e­fits.

• Ergo­nomic design and user­friendly menu
  oper­a­tion with scroll wheel.
• Auto­matic cal­i­bra­tion with smart "Auto­di­ag­no­sis" to
  check the con­di­tion of the cal­i­bra­tion stan­dard.
• Long-term sta­ble LED light source pro­vides
  highly repeat­able results.
• 10 year war­ranty on the light source.

select mode...

and mea­sure

Comes com­plete with:
Gloss­me­ter
Holder with inte­grated cal­i­bra­tion tile
Trace­able cer­tifi­cate
Soft­ware easy-link
USB-cable
Oper­at­ing man­ual
Bat­tery
Car­ry­ing case

Free 1x pre­ven­tive main­te­nance ser­vice
dur­ing war­ranty period

Spe­cial Trade-In for our
loyal micro-gloss cus­tomers

AG-4442  micro-gloss 60°
AG-4446  micro-TRI-gloss

for all mod­els made before 2002

¹ for 45° and 75° gloss­me­ters see page 23
² for S-Type gloss­me­ters see page 22

For Pre­ven­tive Main­te­nance and Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion
Ser­vices see page 267 - 270.

Spe­cial Intro­duc­tory Offer

- valid only for a limited time.

AG-4442 micro-gloss 60°
AG-4446 micro-TRI-gloss