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Progressive Colour Measurement Special offer from Lovibond Tintometer


Lovibond Tintometer has a long and impressive history having been established in 1885 by Joseph Lovibond, a brewer in Salisbury. Lovibond was amazed that master brewers could tell good beer from its colour. He wanted to ensure that the colour of his beer was always the same, so his customers would know that the high quality was constant. He therefore needed something, a standard, to which he could match the colour of the final brew.


Rumour has it that he was inspired by the beautiful glass windows of Salisbury Cathedral which still had the same glorious colour as on the day it was first installed centuries before. Whatever the inspiration, the permanence of coloured glass suggested itself to him as the ideal colour standard. After much searching, a range of glasses of the right colours was found and thereafter there was no further difficulty in keeping the product up to standard.


This idea was expanded from just measuring the colour of beer. By combining coloured glasses of the three primary colours red, yellow and blue, he realized that you could effectively build up the colour of any object. Lovibond built up a series or “Scale” of these glasses in each of the three colours going from very pale to a very dark and gave a number or value to each glass.


Automatic instruments, by contrast, offer the following benefits:


Automatic instruments give precise, objective data versus human, subjective data Automatic instruments require no skill/experience of operators Automatic instruments offer precise, fast results Automatic instruments do not rely on the environment (right lighting) Automatic instruments do not rely on the human eye which can suffer from fatigue


Automatic instruments communicate in clear terms, accurately and reliably Automatic instruments store results which can then be shared


The EComparator series advances colour measurement to enable you to easily progress from Visual (subjective) to Electronic (objective) results; removing any potential ‘fear’ of upgrading to an electronic instrument.


With the EComparator series, you can view the colour difference with on- screen colour and on-screen numerical display. Touch screen technology makes the instruments easily programmable with instinctive menus on screen. You can set language, date and time, view preferences and create projects with individual tolerance settings “within tolerance” (green), “outside tolerance” (red) and “on border of tolerance” (amber) provides the user with immediate information on the sample. EComparators are available to measure ASTM, Saybolt, Platinum Cobalt and Gardner scales


These standard glass colour scales are still in use today and, throughout the world, millions of applications continue to measure colour with visual instruments made with glass still produced in the United Kingdom: whether the traditional Lovibond® 2000+ system or the three-field Comparator 3000 system.


While visual instruments are still very good and accurate, they do rely on the ability of the user to correctly identify the exact measurement: a judgement that can be impaired by a variety of reasons, not least: colour deficiency; tiredness or personal surroundings.


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