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Color and brightness measurement on metallic coatings

I would like to know what method, equipment and specs could be used to measure the consistency of color and brightness of various coatings such as chrome, gold, and various nitrides.

Mandar Sunthankar
- Fort Collins, Colorado
2002

There are a number of suppliers of color matching instruments and a quick internet search should yield many hits.

Like anything else you get what you pay for. There are inexpensive hand held meters to expensive bench top models.

George Shahin
Atotech - Rock Hill, South Carolina
2002

George, will it be possible to get more information on this subject directly from you?

Mandar Sunthankar
- Fort Collins, Colorado
2002

2006

You can visit following website for Instruments for color measurement and quantifications
datacolor.com
gretagmacbeth.com
x-rite.com
Also see Konika Minolta instruments

You can accurately measure color and do Pass/fail.
Multiangle Spectrophotometer with QC software will solve your problem.

Dr Narendra S Gangakhedkar
- Mumbai, India

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