SPECTROPHOTOMETER

CM-2600d
Simply expands the Boundaries in Color Control
PRONOUNCING SPECTROPHOTOMETER IS THE ONLY COMPLICATED THING ABOUT OUR LATEST PRODUCT.
We dont need to explain to you how important reliability is in color control issues. Whatever your product is, your customers can count on the same color on every item, and so can you. Todays spectrophotometers all claim to be highly accurate, lightweight and reliable. So what makes the difference? Whoever uses a spectrophotometer wants to use it intuitively and easily.
The new CM-2600d by KONICA MINOLTA is really easy to use. One hand is enough to hold it, two fingers are enough to operate it. The large display shows all the information you need, either complete graphical and numerical color information or a simple PASS / FAIL message the CM2600d fits perfectly into color control process. The ergonomic and interactive features encompass all applications in color quality control.
1 Single handed operation and youre in control of the all new CM-2600d:
Forget all you have heard about easy operation of any portable spectrophotometer so far! The new CM-2600d sets new standards when you look for a simple and fast handling instrument. The exclusive Navigation wheel and the measuring button are placed right where your hand fits. The Navigation wheel guides you through all the menu options with great ease Forward, Backward and pressing down like using a PC mouse.
4 What you see is what you get:
Sample observation for precise targeting of small specimens has never been as simple as with the CM-2600d. Forget about these fuzzy stapler type targeting masks and other unpractical devices. Simply open the sample viewing port and you can exactly see what youre aiming at. Even on very dark colors, the very bright special illumination LED shows you exactly what youll measure, whether youre using the large or the small aperture mask. Once you have positioned the CM2600d, just let the lever go and take the measurement.
5 Fits comfortably into your hand :
Weighing only 670 gr. (without batteries) and combined with its ergonomic design, the CM-2600d is perfectly suited for any application in the laboratory in the field. Taking measurements horizontally or vertically is both easy and fatigue free. The compact size and accessible measurement aperture allows you to measure samples of any shape or size.
2 Comprehensive and informative color Data Information Display:
The large Display is your Information Centre. Displaying data graphically or numerically, it shows you the facts about your colors at a glance. Whether you select simple Pass/Fail indications, colorimetric data with descriptive color difference, or L*a*b* color graph with either box or elliptical tolerances, youre in control at any time. And also Relativity Gloss Value can be displayed by using Numerical Gloss Control.The internal software contains all necessary colorimetric equations and standard light sources to cover your tasks as well as numerous industry and application specific indices. The internal software communicates in six languages (English, German, French, Italian, Spanish and Japanese) and thus is prepared for your international color communication network. It even reminds you when it is time for a factory re-calibration to ensure traceability to ISO-9000 recommendations.
6 Two measuring apertures to cover all sample sizes:
The CM-2600d offers you great flexibility of use with two interchangeable measurement apertures with 8 mm (MAV) and 3 mm (SAV). Changing the aperture mask is very easy and quick. The two lens position settings guarantee perfect data correlation with both apertures, as you can expect from a leading-optical precision manufacturer.

Pass / Fail Display

Relativity Gloss Value
Color graph + data Display
These two apertures enable you to measure samples of all size and shapes and avoid taking time consuming average measurements on structured surfaces or faulty results on small samples.
Relativity Gloss Value Simultaneous color difference with wording for SCI and SCE
Relativity Gloss Value Spectral graph
3 Youll never be out of power
With the CM-2600d, you have the free choice of three different power sources (batteries, rechargeable batteries or AC power), making your portable instrument ready for action at any time in any place. No need to wait for charging or being out of power at the wrong moment.

NORTH, EAST, SOUTH, WESTWARD HO! EXPANDING THE BOUNDARIES TO A GLOBAL COLOR DATA COMMUNICATION NETWORK.
In todays global network, customers, manufacturers and numerous suppliers have to work hand in hand when it comes to Total Quality Assurance. Reliable and correlating color data are a real challenge for flawless color communication in the whole manufacturing process, from R&D to Production and Quality Assurance. KONICA MINOLTA,one of the global leading manufacturers of color measuring systems and pioneer in portable spectrophotometers offers you the most extensive and comCompany A plete range of instruments to meet this challenge.
Network construction for color control either within an organisation or between organisations

R &D

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Prod. Color control between companies
The new CM-2600d, a highly interactive portable color measuring instrument, fits perfectly into KONICA MINOLTAs broad range of color measuring systems. The perfect inter-instrument agreement with the line of bench-top instruments as well as the commonly shared line of software, create a total solution system, suited for all stages in the manufacturing process throughout all kinds of applications. It is therefore not just a new fine piece of hardware, but also the expansion into a new generation of instrumentation linked with the world of Information Technology.
The issue: color data communication in a network
When it comes to color data communication within your company or in combination with your customers and suppliers, then the main issue is inter-instrument and inter-model agreement. These two terms describe the level of measurement data agreement between several instruments or the same type and/or several different models. The better this agreement is,

In-house color control

Production
the more it is possible to exchange color data within the network for flawless Quality Control. Through accurate design of all optical parts in full accordance with international norms and severe quality control levels, KONICA MINOLTA has earned the highest reputation for best inter-instrument and intermodel agreement levels. So you can choose a bench-top instrument for the laboratory and confidently exchange data with the CM-2600d in the Production and Quality Assurance department.

SpectraMagic NX

(optional)
Supports Windows2000/XP/Vista SpectraMagic NX enables you to perform comprehensive color inspection and analysis of incoming raw materials, in process production, and outbound color critical goods and materials in virtually any industry. With SpectraMagic NX you can insert digital images with measured data. Measure samples in any of 8 universally accepted color spaces. Select from 15 illuminants, and up to 40 indices to determine specific color and appearance properties, such as strength, brightness, haze, yellowness, opacity and strength. You can even configure up to 3 customized color equations. Reports range from simple Pass/Fail to trend charts, histograms, color plots, and spectral graphs. SpectraMagic NX comes with predefined templates using skin technology, or you can create your own templates. For illustrations and explanations to understanding color and color measurement technology, there is a link to Konica Minolta's well known and respected Precise Color Communication. Step by step navigation help.

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PEOPLE OFTEN TALK ABOUT INNER VALUES. HERE THEY CAN FIND LOTS OF THEM.
Isnt it the wish of every user to master highly sophisticated instruments with absolute ease? Or is this a fantasy, which will never come true? Our answer to these questions is the newportable spectrophotometer, the CM-2600d. It combines very simple, comfortable and intuitive use with KONICA MINOLTAs patented Innovative Optical System to meet the highest expectations for color measurement for Quality Assurance of almost any application. Initially launched with the bench-top spectrophotometer CM-3600d, this innovative technology includes Numerical Gloss- Control (NGC) and, now available for the first time in a portable instrument, numerical UV-Control (NUVC). Together with the high energy xenon flash illumination and the high resolution monolithic dual beam monochromator, this technology is free from moving parts and therefore guarantees substantial advantages in ruggedness and reliability.
World first: Numerical UV-Control
The CM-2600d is the worlds first portable instrument to offer the patented numerical UV-Control(NUVC).This innovative technology drastically reduces calibration and measurement procedure time when measuring products treated with optical brighteners such as Textiles, Papers and Detergents. Instead of using the mechanically driven filters of traditional methods, the NUVC technology uses two xenon flashes (one including UV and one excluding UV energy) and special mathematics. Within a few seconds you get both results, with and without UV as well as under different illumination conditions.
UV-calibration procedure requires optional SpectraMagic NX sofware.
Grating Dual Silicon photodiode array
Unequalled: Numerical Gloss Control
Another patented and therefore exclusive feature is the Numerical Gloss Control (NGC), which, for each measurement, provides simultaneous data with specular component included (SCI) and excluded (SCE). Instead of mechanical moving parts, NGC sequentially fires two xenon flashes, for SCI and SCE. At any time, you can display both measuring results in the display of the CM-2600d. NGC technology has also anable the achievement of Relativity Gloss Value display. The advantages of NGC technology lies in its superior optical results as well as the absence of any moving parts making the CM-2600d rugged enough for portable applications.

Light source without UV

SCI light source with UV Light source for specular light
On suitability in accordance with international Standards:
The optical construction has great importance on subjects like absolute accuracy, data compatibility with other (type, brand) instruments. They depend on the way the supplier designs and manufactures all optical parts such as the geometry, light dividing devices, monochromator.
On suitability for all kind of samples:
Samples you have to control come in all sorts of shapes, sizes and forms, which the instrument should be able to measure in an easy and repeatable way. Furthermore, time-consuming sample preparation prior to measurement should be avoided by the instruments ability to measures it as it is.
Todays standard requirements for portable color control: Optical system strictly in accordance
with international standards (ISO, CIE, DIN, ASTM, AFNOR, JIS)
Performances meeting your application
for today and the future (repeatability, long term stability, inter-instrument agreement)
Full and comprehensive color data

information

Compact, light, left or right handed

operation

Suitable for any shape or size of
sample;Simultaneous SCI / SCE measurements
10 Additional features only the CM-2600d can offer you:
On Color data information:
The way color data is output and presented is a vital factor in ensuring quick and easy routine quality control in production. A large easy to read display, fast assessment Pass/Fail indications, including understandable color descriptions in your language, as well as display of color and spectral graphs, makes the instrument understandable to all operators regardless of their color knowledge.

On specular evaluation

Depending on the surface condition of the sample and the angle of observation, the eye can perceive different levels of specular gloss (high gloss, semigloss or matte). To evaluate the influence of the gloss on the color data, the di:8, de:8 geometry offers the ability to measure the sample including (SCI) or excluding (SCE) the specular component. Simultaneous assessment of SCI and SCE in one measurement offers great advantages in the speed and ease of use.

Perfect sample observation with

viewfinder

Patented numerical Gloss control
Patented numerical UV calibration

(standard equipment)

Unique Navigation wheel for menu
On inter-instrument agreement:
Optimum performance is not a luxury, and you need to ensure you get reliable data throughout the instruments lifetime. Many of your existing and future customers will undoubtedly have color measurement systems and will need to communicate with you about color data. Perfect inter-instrument agreement ensures data correlation between several instruments of the same type, whereas Inter-model agreement states the level of agreement between different types of instruments (e.g. portable and Bench-top instruments).
Intuitive operation flow Choice of six pre-selectable

measurement modes

On Design & Ergonomics:
The design, shape, weight and ease of operation dictates if the instrument is suitable for your application. Its ergonomics, how it fits into your hand, are vital to the daily working practices and integration into the work process.
Choice of three power supply modes
(Batteries, rechargeable batteries, AC power)
Sleep mode power saving system Yearly re-calibration reminder message

Specifications

Illumination/viewing system: di:8, de:8 (diffused illumination, 8-degree viewing angle), equipped with simultaneous measurement of SCI (specular component included)/ SCE (specular component excluded). (Conforms to DIN 5033 Tei17, JIS Z 8722 Condition C, ISO 7724/1, CIE No.15, ASTM E1164.) 52 mm Silicon photodiode array (dual 40 elements) Diffraction grating 360 nm to 740 nm 10 nm Approx. 10 nm 0 to 175%, Display resolution: 0.01% 3 pulsed xenon lamps (2 xenon lamps for CM-2500 d) Approx. 1.5 seconds (approx. 2 seconds for fluorescent measurement) 3 seconds for SCI/SCE (4 seconds for fluorescent measurement) (Simultaneous evaluation of SCI/SCE is possible by a single measurement) MAV: 8mm/ 11 mm SAV: 3 mm/ 6 mm (Selectable between MAV and SAV) (Only MAV is available for CM-2500d) (Standard deviation): Spectral Reflectance: within 0.1% (360 to 380nm within 0.2%) Chromaticity Value : E*ab within 0.04 (When a white calibration plate is measured 30 times at 10-second intervals after white calibration) E*ab within 0.2 (MAV/SCI) (Average for 12 BCRA Series II color tiles compared to values measured with master body) Instantaneous adjustment (no mechanical adjustment required) *With UV400nm cut filter (no UV adjustment function for CM-2500d) Single/averaging (auto mode: 3, 5, 8 flashes/manual mode) RS-232C 2/10 degrees (CIE 1931:2 ; CIE 1964:10) A, C, D50, D65, F2, F6, F7, F8, F10, F11, F12 (simultaneous evaluation is possible using two light sources) Spectral value/graph, colorimetric value, color difference value/graph, PASS / FAIL result,relativity gloss value L*a*b*, L*C*h, CMC (1:1), CMC (2:1), CIE94, Hunter Lab, Yxy, Munsell, XYZ, MI, WI (ASTM E313), YI (ASTM E313/ASTM D1925), ISO Brightness (ISO 2470), Density status A/T, WI/Tint (CIE/Ganz), CIEpieces of data (as SCI/SCE 1 data) * 700 pieces of data in the defined in COND. mode. *Total of the sample data for the COND and TASK modes and color difference target data Tolerance Display: Power sources: Battery performance: Size (WxHxD): Weight: Operating temperature/humidity range: (*1) Storage temperature/humidity range: Standard accessories: Optional accessories: Tolerance for color difference (both box and elliptical tolerances can be set) AA-size battery (x4), AC adapter Approx. 1000 times at 10-second intervals (when alkaline batteries used) 69 x 96 x 193 mm Approx. 670g (without batteries) 5 to 40 C, relative humidity 80% or less (at 35C) with no condensation 0 to 45 C, relative humidity 80% or less (at 35C) with no condensation White calibration plate, Target mask 8 mm, Target mask 3 mm (not supplied for CM-2500d), RS-232C cable, AC adapter, AA-size battery (x4) Hard case, Dust cover set, Dust cover, SpectraMagic NX, Zero calibration box CM-A32

System Diagram

Standard Accessories Optional Accessories Target Mask 3mm CM-A147 Target Mask 8mm CM-A146 AC-Adapter Batteries 4AA Type External Computer RS-232C Cable IF-A 16
Size of integrating sphere: Detector: Spectral separation device: Wavelength range: Wavelength pitch: Half bandwidth: Reflectance range: Light source: Measurement time: Minimum measurement interval: Measurement/illumination area:
White Cal. Plate CM-A 145
Zero Calibration Box CM-A 32
CM-S100w Carrying Case CM-A 148
Dust cover set CM-A 149 Dust cover CM-A 152

Repeatability:

Inter instrument agreement: UV adjustment: Measurement mode: Interface: Observer: Illuminant: Outputs: Color space/colorimetric data:

CM-2600d Dimensions

(Units:mm)

Data memory:

CM-2500d the lower cost option
Same simplicity, same performance but with the following restrictions: No UV control Only 8 mm aperture
*1 Operating temperature/humidity range of products for North America : 5 to 40C, relative humidity 80% or less (at 31C) with no condensation Specifications and drawings subject to change without prior notice.

SAFETY PRECAUTIONS

For correct use and for your safety, be sure to read the instruction manual before using the instrument. Always connect the instrument to the specified power supply voltage. Improper connection may cause a fire or electric shock. Be sure to use the specified batteries. Using improper batteries may cause a fire or electric shock.
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VIRACON & KONICA MINOLTA
No two individuals will view or describe color exactly the same. Being able to discuss color based upon established color science principals and the use of color standards is paramount. The only way to validate color to what the human eyes sees is to review data from measurements taken during fabrication, said Brian Stiles, a Quality Engineer for Viracon, Inc. The instruments Viracon uses to measure color are Konica Minolta CM-2600d Spectrophotometers.
Our measurements with the Konica Minolta CM-2600d confirm that the color of the glass is well within the tolerances established for a particular product, said Stiles. Being able to mathematically measure the color takes all the subjectivity out of quantifying the glass color with a universal understanding.
Viracon, based in Owatonna, Minnesota, also has facilities in Statesboro, Georgia, and St. George, Utah. An international company of Apogee Enterprises, Inc, Viracon fabricates architectural glass products, including tempered, laminated, insulating, silk-screened, and high-performance coatings. Since 1970, when Viracon was established with 20 employees by founder James L. Martineau, the company has expanded its facilities to perform more glass fabricating processes at a single site than any other fabricator in the world. For more than 2,500 architects and designers, Viracon is a prime single-source resource for not only fabrication, but for consulting and technical help as well.
A COLOR QUALITY PARTNERSHIP
Viracon glass products have been used in seven of the ten tallest buildings in the world and in such prestigious buildings as Seven World Trade Center, New York City; Mandalay Bay Hotel, Las Vegas; Federal Express Headquarters, Memphis, TN; Taipei Financial Center, Taipei, Taiwan; Reebok Headquarters, Canton, MA; the Colorado Convention Center, Denver, CO; and Mt. Sinai Hospital, Miami Beach, FL, said Christine Shaffer, Marketing Manager, Viracon, Inc. We have over 4,000 lines of published performance data for various glass configurations, but for the most part the glass is a custom specification. All Viracon production is builtto-order, for a specific application. Over 55 million square feet of glass moves through our largest plant in Owatonna each year.
We have been using colorimeters and spectrophotometers for years to measure color, said Don Boutelle, Director of Quality Assurance. In 2003 we decided to standardize on one manufacturer for both hand held and benchtop spectrophotometers for our Minnesota and Georgia plants and eventually for our Utah plant. After extensive evaluation we selected Konica Minolta instruments and have purchased 25 spectrophotometers over the years, a mix of CM-2600d portable and CM-3700d benchtop units. We also acquired Konica Minoltas SpectraMagic NX Quality Control software for simple pass/fail evaluations and trend analyses.
Raw glass is shipped to the three Viracon plants, where it is fabricated into various products. We measure the incoming raw materials to ensure the color is within our specifications, said Boutelle. We want to prevent raw materials with color issues from being introduced to the manufacturing lines. Incoming color inspections save us considerable time and money on the front end and we avoid having to scrap product on the back end. By measuring color throughout the manufacturing process, we ensure that our customers get what they ordered. In addition to glass, other materials such as paint and silicone are measured as well. We roll-coat full coverage and silk-screen patterns and designs on glass and measure the paint color for consistency throughout the production run, said Brad Loch, Supervisor. We also sputter coat optically thin layers of metal onto the glass to reduce thermal radiation and insulate using a silicone seal; all have to be up to specification for color. During the manufacturing process, a Konica Minolta spectrophotometer is mounted on a robotic arm that can extend over the product to measure color on-line.

Konica Minoltas SpectraMagic NX Quality Control software stores color tolerances for various glass products. We make an ideal physical sample of the product, take a reading, and store the data in the software as a color target with tolerances, said Mike Schettler, Quality Engineer. We can then take a reading of a production sample with a spectrophotometer and compare it to the standard. The Konica Minolta SpectraMagic NX software will convert the spectral data to color space values, for example, CIE L*a*b* (CIELAB). The program provides a pass/fail judgment and an assessment, such as too red or too blue. We perform a visual and numerical assessment in conjunction to determine if the color is a proper match. The software is among the best weve worked with for these purposes, said Stiles. Schettler agrees, saying The color software has been helpful in organizing and analyzing our color data. Some of the items that we like are the unlimited tag data fields, dynamic reports, and the way the targets can be grouped within the same file.
Konica Minolta spectrophotometers have been durable and dependable, concluded Boutelle. When service is required, the service time from start to finish is fast and complete. I would also like to note that Konica Minolta publications have assisted Viracon with a better understanding of color, specifically Precise Color Communication and The Language of Light. Konica Minolta publications and technical communications are helpful to us and we are looking forward to future publications.
So the next time you admire a building with beautiful glass where every window has a uniform color, chances are the glass was fabricated by Viracon, and Konica Minolta instruments played a pivotal role in ensuring the color is the same, pane to pane.
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