Measuring Instruments

Color Quality control like never before:
| OS | Windows® 2000 Professional with Service Pack 4, Windows® XP Professional with Service Pack 2 (English, Japanese, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese and Hangul versions), Windows® XP Professional x64 Edition (English and Japanese versions), Windows® Vista Business 32bit(x86) and 64bit(x64) |
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| CPU | Pentium® III 600 MHz or higher (recommended) |
| Memory | 128 MB (256 MB recommended) |
| Hard disk | 450 MB of available disk space (At least 400 MB of available space is required in the system drive.) |
| Display | Display unit capable showing at least 1024 × 768 dots/256 colors |
| Other | CD-ROM drive (required for installation), One free USB port or printer port (for protection key), One free serial port (for instrument), Internet Explorer Ver. 5.01 or later |
CM-3700d; CM-3600d; CM-3610d; CM-3630; CM-3500d; CM-700d/600d; CM-2600d/2500d/2500c; CM-2002; CM-500 Series; CM-512m3; CR-400/410, DP-400; CR-300/CR-200 Series (The CR-300/200 Series can be used only when the main unit is version 3.0 or later and is connected via RS-232C. The unit cannot be used together with a USB converter.)
Underlined: Professional Edition ONLY
| Color space | L*a*b*, L*C*h, XYZ, Hunter Lab, Yxy, L*u'v', L*u*v*, Lab99, LCh99, Munsell, and their color differences(excluding Munsell) |
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| Index | MI, WI (CIE 1982, ASTM E313-73, ASTM E313-96, Hunter, Berger, Taube, Stensby, Ganz), Tint (CIE 1982, ASTM E313-96, Ganz), YI (ASTM D1925-70, ASTM E313-73, ASTM E313-96, DIN6167), WB (ASTM E313-73), Standard depth (ISO 105.A06), Brightness (TAPPI, ISO2470), Opacity (ISO 2471, TAPPI T425 89% White plate)
, Haze (ASTM D1003-97)*, Density (Status A, Status T), Dominant Wavelength, Excitation Purity, RXRYRZ, 8 degree gloss value (CM-3600d, CM-3610d, CM-2600d/2500d only), user equation, each difference, 555, Ns, Ns Grade, Staining degree (ISO 105.A04E), Staining degree rating (ISO 105.A04E), Grey scale (ISO 105.A05), Strength, Pseudo strength, K/S strength (Apparent ΔE*ab,ΔL*,ΔC*,ΔH*,Δa*,b* , maximum absorption, total wavelength, user wavelength) NC#, NC Grade
*With some instrument types, the illuminating/light-receiving optical system may not satisfy the definition of haze ASTM D1003-97). However, this presents no problem as long as the value is used as a relative value. |
| Color difference equation | ΔE*ab (CIE 1976), ΔE*94 (CIE 1994) and each component of lightness, saturation and hue, ΔE00 (CIE DE2000) and each component of lightness, saturation and hue, ΔE99 (DIN99), ΔE (Hunter), CMC (I:c) and each component of lightness, saturation and hue, FMC-2, NBS 100, NBS 200, ΔEc (degree)(DIN 6175-2), ΔEp (degree)(DIN 6175-2) |
| Observer | 2 degree, 10 degree |
| Illuminants | A, C, D50, D55, D65, D75, F2, F6, F7, F8, F10, F11, F12, U50 |
| Graph display | Spectral reflectance (transmittance) and its difference, K/S and its difference, Absorbance and its difference, L*a*b* absolute value, L*a*b (2D/3D color difference distribution, MI), xy chromaticity diagram, Trend chart and histogram of each color space and color difference equation |
| Image display | Link between measured value and image data (JPEG or BMP format), Insertion of custom images |
| Instrument control | Measurement/calibration Automatic average measurement: 1 to 999 measurements Manual average measurement: Any number of measurements (Standard deviation and average value are displayed in the color space selected during measurement.) Remote measurement (Excluding the CM-3000 Series) Instrument setting Upload of data stored in the instrument (Excluding the CM-3000 Series) List view of data stored in the instrument (Excluding the CM-3000 Series) |
| Target | Registration of several target colors (Automatic target color selection), Manual input and registration of colorimetric data by specifying color space, Target data download to the instrument (Excluding the CM-3000 Series) |
| Data list | List view and editing of target/measured data (delete, sort, averaging, copy & paste), Link between JPEG images, Display of statistic value and pass/fail ratio, Visual judgment result input function, Additional data information inputting/listing function |
| External I/O | Loading/saving data files in original format (Extension: mes) (Several files can be loaded.) Loading/saving template files in original format (Extension: mtp) (Several files can be loaded.) Saving of data in text format (CSV, TXT), saving of data in XML format, Copy of listed data in the clipboard |
| Help function | Navigation display |
| Screen display | Number of files that can be opened simultaneously: 20 Number of data that can be stored in a file: Target data: 5,000, Measurement data: 5,000 Instrument status details window display, “ Precise Color Communication” Tutorial |
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| Operation | Easy operation including: Operation screen with large buttons, Use of function-assigned keys instead of mouse, Navigation function, Macro function |