color-guide

Color Mea­sure­ment for Spe­cific
Appli­ca­tions

Color Con­trol of Small Parts

Key­boards, pens and win­dow han­dles require a color
instru­ment with a very small aper­ture and a repeat­able sam­ple place­ment.
color-guide 45/0, 4 mm aper­ture together with the optio­nal sam­ple holder guar­an­tee repeat­able results and a con­ve­nient sam­ple place­ment.

• Min­i­mum sam­ple size: 5 x 5 mm (0.2 x 0.2 in)

Trend anal­y­sis:
Color - Gloss - Film Thick­ness

Com­plete color QC-report

color-guide 45/0, 4 mm

color-guide with glass sealed aper­ture

Color Con­trol of Pow­dered Mate­rial

When mea­sur­ing pow­dery or gran­u­lar mate­rial like raw mate­rial pucks or grainy food, the instru­ment´s optics must be
pro­tected. The color-guide spec­tropho­tome­ter with glass sealed aper­ture uses a col­or­less, opti­cal glass and can directly mea­sure such prod­ucts, thus sav­ing sam­ple pre­pa­ra­tion time.

Pro­fes­sio­nal Doc­u­men­ta­tion
with easy-link

ISO 9000 requires doc­u­men­ta­tion of color data. easy-link, included with the color-guide, offers all of the neces­sary tools:

• Easy and direct data trans­fer from the instru­ment to Excel®
• Pre­defined QC-report tem­plates (Lab-plot, trend graph) are included
• All rel­e­vant qual­ity data can be eas­ily sum­marized in one report: Color – Gloss – Film Thick­ness
• Easy man­age­ment of your stan­dards: stan­dard back-up and estab­lish­ing of pro­duc­tion tol­er­ances

Color Con­trol - easy and secure

• Easy to use and han­dle - even for color begin­n­ers
• Sta­ble, long-term cal­i­bra­tion - needed only every three months
• Highly tem­per­a­ture sta­ble - even in extreme con­di­tions
• Uses stan­dard AA bat­teries - good for 10,000 read­ings
• 10 year war­ranty on light source - no lamp changes needed
• Light weight and small size - only weighs 500 g

color-guide Train­ing
BYK-Gard­ner offers you more than just an instru­ment. We assist you in ana­lyz­ing your color read­ings, under­s­tand­ing how to set tol­er­ances and as a result be able to use the
color-guide spec­tropho­tome­ter to save time and money and at the same time improve your qual­ity. There­fore, the instru­ment comes with a half day train­ing course includ­ing:

1. Color The­ory
• The build­ing blocks of color: illu­mi­nant, observer, object
• Color dif­fer­ences with inter­pre­ta­tion

2. Oper­a­tion and Soft­ware Train­ing
• Mea­sure sam­ples and stan­dards by sin­gle and aver­age
  read­ings
• Save, recall and delete mea­sure­ments
• Change illu­mi­nants, observers, color scales
• Direct data trans­fer to Excel®

Sam­ple Holder for Small Parts
The mask of the holder is cus­tom made for the 4 or 11 mm aper­ture of the color-guide. The sam­ple is placed in a jig, ensur­ing mea­sure­ment at the same spot. The holder is
sup­plied with three dif­fer­ent jigs to guar­an­tee max­i­mum flex­i­bil­ity: a flex­i­ble foam disk for quick checks, a fin­ished disk with cylin­dri­cal groove, and a blank disk to be cus­tomized by the user.

Comes com­plete with:
Spec­tropho­tome­ter
Black cal­i­bra­tion stan­dard
White cal­i­bra­tion stan­dard with cer­tifi­cate
Green check­ing ref­er­ence
Sam­ple area loca­tor
Soft­ware easy-link
Inter­face cable
USB-adapter
4 x AA bat­teries
Hand strap; Car­ry­ing case
Oper­at­ing instruc­tions; Color the­ory folder
Train­ing

Free 1x pre­ven­tive main­te­nance ser­vice dur­ing war­ranty period

¹ Stan­dard devi­a­tion