{"id":1892,"date":"2013-02-25T22:40:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T03:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sensing.konicaminolta.us\/blogs\/using-benchtop-spectrophotometers-for-quality-control"},"modified":"2025-11-25T05:49:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T10:49:17","slug":"using-benchtop-spectrophotometers-for-quality-control","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/sensing.konicaminolta.us\/us\/blog\/using-benchtop-spectrophotometers-for-quality-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Benchtop Spectrophotometers for Quality Control in the Plastics Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Benchtop spectrophotometers are the tool of choice for blown, extruded, and molded plastic products. The instrument allows manufacturers to measure a product&#8217;s color at points across the full range of development and manufacturing steps, ensuring a consistent color on finished items. Benchtop Spectrophotometers measure a product&#8217;s transmitted and reflected color, yellowness, and haze. The instruments provide operators with numerical values to <a href=\"https:\/\/sensing.konicaminolta.us\/us\/blog\/best-practices-for-visually-evaluating-the-color-of-samples\/\">correlate with a visual inspection<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Our <a href=\"https:\/\/sensing.konicaminolta.us\/us\/products\/spectrophotometer-cm-36dg\/\">CM-36dG Benchtop Spectrophotometer<\/a> is a highly accurate unit that can simultaneously measure color and true gloss, making it ideal for QC and formulation applications in plastics. It can also measure various plastic surfaces such as; solids, pellets, films, translucent and opaque samples for precise color measurement.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the device is compatible with <a href=\"https:\/\/sensing.konicaminolta.us\/us\/products\/spectramagic-nx2-color-data-software\/\">SpectraMagic\u2122 NX2 software<\/a>, so users can see multiple data views that they can then edit. Two or more secondary targets can be connected with the primary target&#8217;s data, enabling many quality control applications. When looking at the need to obtain accurate color measurement data, it is interesting to note that the International Color Consortium has set forth rigorous guidelines on the appearance of colors. When a plastics manufacturer goes for one of these standard colors, a benchtop spectrophotometer allows them to program the correct color and measure all other products down the line against it.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to highly advanced technology, the plastics industry can perform amazingly accurate color measurements that even just a few years ago would not have been possible.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to know about Konica Minolta benchtop spectrophotometers, <a href=\"https:\/\/sensing.konicaminolta.us\/us\/contact-us\/general-inquiries\">please contact us through our website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22159,"template":"","learning_center_categories":[237],"class_list":["post-1892","blog","type-blog","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","learning_center_categories-color-appearance-measurement"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.4 (Yoast SEO v24.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\r\n<title>Using Benchtop Spectrophotometers for Quality Control in the Plastics Industry<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Benchtop spectrophotometers measure a plastic product&#039;s color at points across the full range of development steps, ensuring a consistent finished product.\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sensing.konicaminolta.us\/us\/blog\/using-benchtop-spectrophotometers-for-quality-control\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Using Benchtop Spectrophotometers for Quality Control in the Plastics Industry\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Benchtop spectrophotometers are the tool of choice for blown, extruded, and molded plastic products. 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