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Manual TECHKON SpectroDens
How to measure
After switching on SpectroDens, it is instantly ready to measure. Just position the mea-
surement aperture on top of the measurement sample and press shortly with the in-
dex finger the green measurement button. Within one second the resulting measure-
ment value will appear on the display of the device.
Please ensure that the device always has a firm stand on a flat surface. There must not
be a distance between the measurement head and the sample where light could pass
through, because this can influence the measurement. On the bottom of the device
there are tracking wheels which allow to drive easily and fast to the measurement
point.
The color of the background material underneath the measurement sample can have
an influence on the measurement result. Different technical standards describe which
backing material to use.
In the printing industry the following procedure is widely used:
white backing for proofs and
black backing for prints.
TIP:
By pressing the red Escape button and one of the Arrow buttons simultaneously (see
p. 13), SpectroDens switches directly between the densitometric and the colorimetric
measurement function that was last used.
