BYK-mac

Total color impres­sion of effect 
fin­ishes

The appear­ance of effect  fin­ishes is influ­enced by dif­fer­ent view­ing angles and view­ing con­di­tions. Apart from a light-dark flop and color shift spe­cial spark­ling effects can be cre­ated.
The BYK-mac spec­tropho­tome­ter is unique as it mea­sures both multi-angle color and flake char­ac­ter­i­za­tion in one portable device. 

• Tra­di­tio­nal 5-angle color mea­sure­ment: 15° / 25° / 45° / 75° / 110°
  
• Addi­tio­nal color mea­sure­ment behind the gloss for color travel of inter­fer­ence pig­ments: -15°
  
• Sparkle and graini­ness mea­sure­ment for flake char­ac­ter­i­za­tion

Ergo­nomic design and easy oper­a­tion

The shape of the instru­ment is designed to ensure easy han­dling and true porta­bil­ity. Due to its 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
• Large dis­play: com­plete statis­tics for selectable val­ues and alphanu­mer­i­cal name input
• Stor­age of up to 1000 read­ings in selectable mem­ories
• smart-chart soft­ware for pro­fes­sio­nal anal­y­sis,
  doc­u­men­ta­tion and data man­age­ment

Reli­able read­ings at any time

In order to guar­an­tee sta­ble posi­tion­ing, the BYK-mac is equipped with trig­ger pins on the bot­tom plate of the instru­ment. If the pins do not have con­tact with the sur­face, an error mes­sage will be dis­played. This ensures repro­du­ci­ble results on test pan­els as well as curved parts (r > 500 mm).
Addi­tio­n­ally, the sur­face tem­per­a­ture is mea­sured and saved with each mea­sure­ment.

Accu­rate results and low main­te­nance

The BYK-mac spec­tropho­tome­ter uses a light source with long-term sta­bil­ity and patented illu­mi­na­tion con­trol which pro­vides 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

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 mea­sured data to a PC.

For more infor­ma­tion on
visual eval­u­a­tion of effect fin­ishes
see byko-spec­tra effect, page 127.

BYK-mac with small aper­ture

Mea­sure­ment of effect fin­ishes on
small or curved parts
Spe­cial effect fin­ishes are used in many appli­ca­tions to cre­ate new color impres­sions pro­nounc­ing the design of a prod­uct. Objects like mobile phone hous­ings, bicy­cles or win­dow han­dles are very small or curved. They require a color instru­ment with small aper­ture and repeat­able sam­ple place­ment.
BYK-mac with 12 mm aper­ture guar­an­tees repeat­able results even on such prod­ucts.

Total color impres­sion of effect
fin­ishes

• 5-angle color mea­sure­ment for light/dark travel eval­u­a­tion: 15° / 25° / 45° / 75° / 110°
• Addi­tio­nal color mea­sure­ment behind the gloss for color flop anal­y­sis: -15°
• Sparkle and graini­ness mea­sure­ment for flake char­ac­ter­i­za­tion

Accu­rate results and low main­te­nance

• Sta­ble, long-term cal­i­bra­tion - needed only every three months
• Tem­per­a­ture inde­pen­dent mea­sure­ment results between
  10 - 40°C - with­out cal­i­bra­tion
• 10 year war­ranty on LED light source - no lamp changes needed
• Excel­lent agree­ment between instru­ments allow­ing usage of dig­i­tal stan­dards among the sup­ply chain
• Oper­ated by a recharge­able bat­tery pack - good for 1000 read­ings

Reli­able read­ings for vari­ous sam­ple sizes

• 4 pin posi­tion­ing for min­i­mum sam­ple size
  35 x 45 mm which can be varied by check zone
  depend­ing on cur­va­ture

Optio­nal sam­ple holder for small parts
The holder is equipped with a mask to fit the aper­ture of
the BYK-mac 12 mm and a tilt­ing han­dle to fix the
instru­ment. There­fore, repeat­able sam­ple place­ment
and reli­able mea­sure­ment results are guar­an­teed.

• Flex­i­ble sam­ple pre­sen­ta­tion:
  - Sam­ple table for flat pan­els
  - Sam­ple stick for irreg­u­lar parts
  - Posi­tion­ing tool for cen­ter­ing sam­ple included
• Min­i­mum sam­ple size: ø 30 mm
• Max­i­mum dis­tance between mea­sure­ment spot and
  back rail: 50 mm

Easy oper­a­tion and effi­cient data anal­y­sis

• Menu guided oper­a­tion accord­ing to your own sam­pling pro­ce­dure
• Stor­age of up to 1000 read­ings in selectable mem­ories
• Pro­fes­sio­nal data doc­u­men­ta­tion and anal­y­sis with smart-chart soft­ware

Tilt­ing Han­dle

Sam­ple Table

Comes com­plete with:
Multi-angle spec­tropho­tome­ter
Black cal­i­bra­tion stan­dard
White cal­i­bra­tion stan­dard with cer­tifi­cate
Cyan and effect 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

¹ Stan­dard devi­a­tion

Spe­cial Intro­duc­tory Offer

- valid only for a limited time

CM-6362 BYK-mac
CM-6397 BYK-mac 
CM-6363 BYK-mac Sen­sor 
CM-6398 BYK-mac Sen­sor 

For Pre­ven­tive Main­te­nance see page 271.

BYK-mac Train­ing
BYK-Gard­ner offers you more than just an instru­ment. We assist you in ana­lyz­ing your color read­ings as well as sparkle and graini­ness data. As a result you will be able to use the BYK-mac 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 and Effect The­ory

• Param­e­ters influ­enc­ing total color impres­sion of effect
  fin­ishes
• Color and effect 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
  - Effect graph to con­trol whether sparkle and graini­ness val­ues are within spe­c­i­fi­ca­tion

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

• Cre­ate your own reports in Excel® 
  - Trans­fer data from the database to Excel®
  - Pivot func­tion to define lay­out in Excel®

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.