BYK-mac COLOR

Multi-angle color mea­sure­ment

In order to con­trol the light­ness and / or color flop of an effect fin­ish, the color needs to be mea­sured under dif­fer­ent view­ing angles.
BYK-mac COLOR spec­tropho­tome­ter offers an attrac­tive
solu­tion by mea­sur­ing

• Tra­di­tio­nal 5-angle color at 15°/25°/45°/75°/110°
• An addi­tio­nal angle at -15° "behind the gloss" for color travel of inter­fer­ence pig­ments

Ergo­nomic design and easy oper­a­tion

The shape of the instru­ment is designed to ensure easy han­dling and true porta­bil­ity. With an intu­i­tive menu qual­ity con­trol of metal­lic fin­ishes has never been easier.

• Menu guided oper­a­tion accord­ing to your own sam­pling
  pro­ce­dure
• Desig­nated but­tons for stan­dard and sam­ple read­ings
• Scroll wheel to select menu func­tions
• Stor­age of up to 1000 read­ings in selectable mem­ories
• 4 trig­ger pins on the bot­tom plate guar­an­tee sta­ble
  posi­tion­ing even on curved sur­faces

Reli­able read­ings at any time

The BYK-mac COLOR uses a light source with long term sta­bil­ity and patented illu­mi­na­tion con­trol which pro­vide supe­rior accu­racy and low main­te­nance for many years.

• Sta­ble, long-term cal­i­bra­tion - needed only every three months
• Tem­per­a­ture inde­pen­dent mea­sure­ment results between
  10 - 40°C - with­out cal­i­bra­tion
• Excel­lent agree­ment between instru­ments
• 10 year war­ranty on the light source - no lamp changes needed

¹ Stan­dard devi­a­tion

Always ready

The instru­ment is oper­ated with a recharge­able bat­tery pack (Li-Ion). The dock­ing sta­tion auto­mat­i­cally charges the bat­tery pack in the instru­ment as well as a spare pack located in the dock­ing sta­tion.
Optio­n­ally the instru­ment can be oper­ated with 4 stan­dard mignon alka­line or recharge­able bat­teries.

The dock­ing sta­tion also trans­fers the mea­sured data to a PC. For pro­fes­sio­nal anal­y­sis, doc­u­men­ta­tion and data man­age­ment smart-chart soft­ware is included.

Comes com­plete with:
Multi-angle spec­tropho­tome­ter
Black cal­i­bra­tion stan­dard
White cal­i­bra­tion stan­dard with cer­tifi­cate
Cyan check­ing ref­er­ence 
Pro­tec­tive cap
Clean­ing set for bot­tom plate
2 light pro­tec­tion cov­ers
Seal replace­ment kit 
smart-chart soft­ware
Dock­ing sta­tion with USB cable for mem­ory trans­fer
Instru­ment inter­face cable for online data trans­fer
2 recharge­able Li-ion bat­tery packs
Bat­tery holder; 4 x AA bat­teries
Short instruc­tions; Oper­at­ing man­ual on CD
Car­ry­ing case; Train­ing

Free 1x pre­ven­tive main­te­nance ser­vice dur­ing war­ranty period

Sys­tem Require­ments:
Oper­at­ing sys­tem 32-bit:  Win­dows® XP SP3, Vista SP2
or Win­dows 7 SP1
Micro­soft® .NET Frame­work 4
Excel®  ver­sion: 2003 or 2007, incl. VBA
Hard­ware: Core 2 Duo, 2.2 GHz, or equi­va­lent
Mem­ory: 2 GB RAM
Hard-disk capac­ity: min. 100 MB
Mon­i­tor res­o­lu­tion: 1280 x 1024 pixel or higher
Disk drive: CD-ROM or DVD drive
Inter­face: free USB-port

For Pre­ven­tive Main­te­nance see page 271.

In com­pliance with:

BYK-mac COLOR Train­ing
BYK-Gard­ner offers you more than just an instru­ment. We assist you in ana­lyz­ing your color read­ings to enable you to use the BYK-mac COLOR to save time and money, while at the same time improv­ing qual­ity. There­fore, the instru­ment comes with a one day train­ing course includ­ing:

1. Color The­ory

• Param­e­ters influ­enc­ing color impres­sion of effect
  fin­ishes
• Color dif­fer­ences for trou­ble shoot­ing

2. Oper­a­tion and Soft­ware train­ing

• Stan­dard man­age­ment
• Set-up an "organizer" to cre­ate a rou­tine mea­sure­ment
  pro­ce­dure 
• Pro­gram­ming of the instru­ment with "organizer" and
  mea­sure­ment of sev­eral sam­ples
• Data trans­fer to smart-chart soft­ware and sav­ing in a database for rou­tine QC
• Data anal­y­sis using stan­dard reports:
  - Lab-scat­ter graph per angle to show at one glance whether all parts are within spe­c­i­fi­ca­tions
  - Color travel by sam­ple to show how indi­vi­d­ual mea­sure­ment zones per­form per mea­sure­ment angle
• Cre­ate your own reports in Excel® 
  - Trans­fer data from the database to Excel®
  - Pivot func­tion to define lay­out in Excel®

Note: For replace­ment of white and cyan effect stan­dard, please con­tact your local ser­vice depart­ment.

The train­ing can be per­formed in one day or two half days. It is rec­om­mended to split the train­ing into two half days:

Day 1: The­ory and basic oper­a­tion (set-up organizer,
            tak­ing read­ings and sav­ing in a database)
Day 2: 3-4 weeks later to ensure read­ings were taken and
            saved in a database. Data anal­y­sis and stan­dard QC
            report can be explained using cus­tom spe­cific data.