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"Tooth Color Analysis: Finding the Perfect Match with Spectrophotometers"

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"Exploring the Many Uses of Color Analysis: Applications of Modern Spectrophotometry"

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What Is the Best Way to Measure the Color of Bread?

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"Glass Color Analysis: The Role of Spectrophotometric Technology in Popular Building Materials"

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HunterLab’s Global Commitment: Stability, Service, and Support Amid Supply Chain Pressures

Posted on Jan 21, 2026 by HunterLab

HunterLab’s Global Commitment: Stability, Service, and Support Amid Supply Chain Pressures

世界的な貿易環境が変化し続ける中、あらゆる業界の企業が新たなレベルの複雑さに対処しています。ハンターラボでは、こうしたプレッシャーがお客様の計画立案、業務運営、サービスへの期待に与える影響を理解しています。だからこそ、世界情勢がどう変わろうとも、当社のカラー測定ソリューションが一貫性を保ち、利用可能であり、完全にサポートされることをお約束します。

70年以上にわたり、ハンターラボは精密機器と信頼性の高いサービスを通じて、世界中のお客様が色品質を維持するお手伝いをしてまいりました。不確実な時代において、その取り組みはさらに強固なものとなります。

なぜカラー測定においてグローバル条件が重要なのか

食品、プラスチック、化学品、繊維製品など、あらゆる分野で製品を開発する際に、正確な色測定はブランドの一貫性と品質管理に不可欠です。しかし、精密な測定ツールの背後には複雑なグローバルサプライチェーンが存在し、今日、その状況は急速に変化しています。

企業は次の影響を感じている:

- 輸送コストの増加

- 港湾および通関手続きの遅延による納期延長

- 重要電子部品および光学部品に対する供給制約

- 国際貿易政策と調達戦略の変化

この環境は、計器製造業界全体の供給状況とコスト構造に影響を与える可能性があります。しかしハンターラボでは、お客様やパートナー様への影響を最小限に抑えるべく、積極的に取り組んでおります。

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HunterLab’s Global Commitment: Stability, Service, and Support Amid Supply Chain Pressures

Posted on Jan 21, 2026 by HunterLab

HunterLab’s Global Commitment: Stability, Service, and Support Amid Supply Chain Pressures

A medida que las condiciones del comercio mundial siguen evolucionando, las empresas de todos los sectores se enfrentan a nuevos niveles de complejidad. En HunterLab, comprendemos cómo estas presiones pueden afectar a su planificación, sus operaciones y sus expectativas de servicio. Por eso nos comprometemos a garantizar que nuestras soluciones de medición del color sigan siendo coherentes, estén disponibles y cuenten con un soporte técnico completo, independientemente del entorno global.

Durante más de 70 años, HunterLab ha ayudado a clientes de todo el mundo a mantener la calidad del color con instrumentos de precisión y un servicio fiable. En tiempos de incertidumbre, ese compromiso se hace aún más fuerte.

Por qué las condiciones globales son importantes en la medición del color

Ya sea que esté formulando productos alimenticios, plásticos, químicos o textiles, la medición precisa del color es esencial para la consistencia de la marca y el control de calidad. Pero detrás de cada herramienta de medición precisa hay una compleja cadena de suministro global, y hoy en día ese panorama está cambiando rápidamente.

Las empresas están sintiendo los efectos de:

- Aumento de los costes de transporte.

- Plazos de entrega más largos debido a retrasos en los puertos y las aduanas.

- Restricciones en el suministro de componentes electrónicos y ópticos críticos.

- Cambios en las políticas comerciales internacionales y las estrategias de abastecimiento.

Este entorno puede afectar a la disponibilidad y a las estructuras de costes en toda la industria de fabricación de instrumentos. Sin embargo, en HunterLab estamos trabajando activamente para minimizar ese impacto para nuestros clientes y socios.

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Handheld Spectrophotometers Keep Crayon Color Quality Consistent During Production Processes

Posted on Dec 19, 2025 by HunterLab

Is that dijon or french mustard? Image Credit: Flickr User nathanmac87 (CC BY 2.0)

Photographer Mark Meyer was a curious kid, and in kindergarten, he had a couple of questions for Crayola1. Even before he could count, he was wondered about yellow-green crayons. How did they differ from green-yellow? Were there really only sixty-three colors in a box of sixty-four crayons? These questions were sidelined and forgotten—until he grew up and gained access to a spectrophotometer. Finally, certifiably, by measuring the light reflected off a crayon’s paraffin and calculating the resulting L*a*b* values, Meyer had his answer. Yellow-green is not green-yellow.

In capturing these results, Meyer duplicated the exact method2 that the Crayola corporation (formerly Binny & Smith) uses to make certain each of its yellow-green crayons comes out exactly right. After the paraffin is melted into vats, mixed with pre-measured dye blends, stearin, and other additives, and extruded and cooled in crayon molds, plant employees scan each crayon with a handheld spectrophotometer, similar to HunterLab’s Miniscan EZ 4000S. Because employees know the exact CIE L*a*b* value the crayons are supposed to have, with the touch of a button they can determine if the crayons are within the tolerance standards established for their color. If a crayon doesn’t match, it gets separated, remelted, and made into another crayon3. Manufacturers seeking to emulate Crayola’s efficiency should consider integrating a similar process into their production lines.

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Tooth Color Analysis: Finding the Perfect Match with Spectrophotometers

Posted on Dec 19, 2025 by HunterLab

Spectrophotometers make tooth color analysis easy and provide accurate results every time. Image Source: Flickr user Bart Everson

A hot topic among consumers for some time has concerned tooth color. Whitening toothpastes and at-home tooth whitening kits line drugstore shelves. Dental laboratories and offices are busy building tooth restorations and implant surgery is leading the way towards creating a perfect smile for anyone. With the amount of time and money people are willing to put toward obtaining a perfect smile, they are also expecting superior results. In order to create a natural look, color matching enamel with a patient’s natural tooth color becomes both an art and a science. Spectrophotometers are a necessity for tooth color analysis and creating that perfect match from laboratory to patient.

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Exploring the Many Uses of Color Analysis: Applications of Modern Spectrophotometry

Posted on Dec 19, 2025 by HunterLab

Spectrophotometric technology spans a wide range of scientific applications. Researchers are continually finding new ways to utilize color analysis. Image Source: Flickr user Duncan Hull

Although color analysis has been used for decades in analytical chemistry, the technology has remained relatively the same over the years. However, innovative ideas and adaptations in spectrophotometers are leading to new forms of color analysis for a variety of applications in this industry. Researchers continue you look further into color measurement instrumentation and are finding ways to better utilize this technology. An increased need for color analysis in pharmaceutical research, biotechnology, and environmental chemistry have all driven the search for new applications of this inexpensive and highly versatile tool.

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What Is the Best Way to Measure the Color of Bread?

Posted on Dec 19, 2025 by HunterLab

When buying bread, you're met with a plethora of options. Whether in a bread aisle or bakery, you're surrounded by all types of bread loaves and will likely reach for the freshest, most beautiful option.

When choosing a loaf of bread, what do you look for? Color is probably one of your top criteria — it tells you a lot about the product you're looking at. That knowledge should translate to your manufacturing process, and the best way to ensure the color of your bread is suitable is through a spectrophotometer.

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Glass Color Analysis: The Role of Spectrophotometric Technology in Popular Building Materials

Posted on Dec 19, 2025 by HunterLab

Glass is a dominating choice in modern day architecture and offers features that optimize functionality. Image Source: Flickr user Ricardo Diaz

My family lives in an area with overcrowded schools, so when a bond was passed to build two new schools in our community and get our kids back into real classrooms with smaller class sizes, I couldn’t have been more thrilled. The new schools were finished last spring and boasted the most state-of-the-art architecture that gleamed with floor to ceiling windows. These beautiful buildings with their walls of glass are like most modern day structures, where glass is a dominating feature and choice in building materials. Glass color can serve a variety of functions in addition to aesthetic appeal including heat retention, solar reflectance value, sound protection, as well as many other technical features. Glass color analysis serves an important function in glass production and manufacturing, and is made simple and easy with the use of modern spectrophotometers.

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