Datacolor 500 Family0 pages
Cost Effective, Accurate Color Measurement
Datacolor 500 Family
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The Datacolor® 500 Family of Benchtop Spectrophotometers, with its new embedded processor and data
storage, provides a platform for increased efficiency and color measurement confidence, while delivering
Datacolor’s economical, superior performance and fleet compatibility. For decades, Datacolor’s instruments
have been selected by the world’s leading manufacturers and brands to specify, formulate and control critical
color for reflectance (DC500/500UV) and transmission (DC550).
Unparalleled Measurement Performance
•t No profiling required. Superior design enables the industry’s best inter-instrument agreement right
out-of-the-box.
•t Utilizes Datacolor’s proprietary SP2000 which captures the true spectral fingerprint of any color at the
highest possible accuracy. As a result, you can achieve very close agreement among all instruments in
your fleet.
Fleet Compatibility
The Datacolor 500 family is a seamless addition or replacement in your current fleet with no need to
re-measure standards:
•t Fully backward compatible with the existing fleet of Datacolor 400 instruments.
Quantifiable Improvement in Throughput
Significant productivity improvements enable users to measure more samples per day with both standalone
and global installations:
•t 25% reduction in measurement time.
•t Improved response times in Citrix and Terminal Server environments.
Complete Confidence in Measurements
INSTRUMENT SETTINGS
With the new features of the Datacolor 500 family of spectrophotometers you have complete confidence in
every measurement.
•t The LCD screen prominently displays the calibration status and instrument settings to validate
proper set-up.
•t The LCD also displays a color coded instrument status bar to highlight potential need for maintenance.
•t Diagnostic data is now stored on the instrument and can be extracted and shared with Datacolor Service
to enable remote diagnostics and minimize delays in issue resolution.