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Find Cheap Color Measurement and Management Products from 3NH, China’s best Equipment Manufacturer. We offer cost-effective color measuring instruments, like colorimeters, spectrophotometers, gloss meters, color light boxes, and image test charts. Our appearance and color measuring devices are affordable. Yet provide you with awesome functionalities like hue detection, Metamerism evaluation, color matching, Reflectance measurement, and much more.

Appearance&Color Measuring Instruments

3nh, a renowned name in the color measurement industry, offers a wide range of measurement instruments that find extensive applications across multiple sectors. These color analysis equipment are designed to accurately measure and manage color, ensuring consistency and quality in various products and processes.

Colour measurement is essential for development, production and quality control in many industries, including automotive, printing, paint, Ink, plastic, electronics, cosmetics, textiles&apparel, construction materials and food.

3nh Spectrophotometers measure subtle colour differences that human eyes cannot distinguish accurately, allowing producers to specify, communicate, produce and approve the colour of products with data that is traceable to national standards. Fortunately, color management solutions, supported by very accurate instruments like colorimeters, offer the industry with the necessary tools for measuring, controlling and reproducing color with great accuracy. Threenh's measurement solutions help our customers to work accurateley and effectivley with colour, saving time, cutting waste and improving quality.


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Types of 3NH Main Instruments Products

HG60S Economic Gloss Meter

HG60 Economic Gloss Meter

YG60 60°Accurate Gloss Meter

HDTV Universal Test Chart

Sector Star Test Chart (36 cycles)

Sector Star Test Chart (72 cycles)

White Balancing Test Chart

Streaking Measurement Test Chart

Bar Test Chart(IEC 61146)

Critical Flesh Tones Test Chart

Distortion Grid Test Chart

Grid Test Chart

Consistent Color, Every Time: 3nh Colorimeters Elevate Measurement Standards

3nh Colorimeters redefine industry measurement standards with unrivaled accuracy and reliability for color-critical applications. Built with premium optical components and advanced calibration technology, our colorimeters deliver ΔE*ab ≤0.04 repeatability, ensuring zero color deviation across batches and production runs.

Color Management Solutions

Why is Color Management Important?


  Take Complete Control Over Your Branding

With advanced color management, you have complete control over color. It allows you to measure color correctly to ensure fabrics, products, and packaging appear the same on each machine, line, and continent. This way, you will be saving time, avoiding rework, saving your brand, and having a product that will look as you want it to be all along.

Enhance Brand Integrity

Get high-precision color management systems from 3NH and make your brand more personalized. You will get consistent color performance across all materials and processes.

Optimize Sustainable Operations

With 3NH measurement instruments, you will get the color right the first time. So, you have reduced rework, conserve raw materials, and minimize environmental impact. Our sustainable color control supports both compliance and corporate responsibility goals.

Ensure Color Uniformity

 You will achieve absolute color consistency across locations and production lines. All with the use of our industry-calibrated spectrophotometers and software. Maintaining all precision standards.

Maximize Workflow Efficiency

Now you can replace costly and slow physical samples with digital color fingerprints. Through intelligent color data integration, you have accelerated time-to-market, streamlined QA processes, and lowered operational costs

Communicate Color Accurately

Eliminate uncertainty in color perception. Our color management solutions digitize and standardize color communication. Making a seamless collaboration between designers, manufacturers, and suppliers.


High-Performance, Innovative Color Management Solutions 

Color management equipment and solutions, establishing color consistency, discover color management solutions like spectrophotometers, lab equipment, and software designed to meet your color communication needs.


Master Your Color&Appearance Quality with 3nh

The world’s true measure of color&appearance—across every industry. Threenh helps industries measure and control color&appearance with confidence. Our advanced technologies deliver the accuracy, speed, and stability needed to meet the highest standards for quality and compliance—across food, pharma, plastics, printing, painting, and beyond.

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Cost-Effective + Smart Color Management Solutions that Perfectly Fit Your Workflows. From novice to professional, Threenh offers a range of color management solutions that are easy to set up and offer excellent results, even for those without a lot of color knowledge. We’ve also compiled a wealth of color education and industry knowledge in our Resource Center to help you create and successfully control your own color program. 3NH has set global standards enabling brands to manage their brand image worldwide and we tirelessly perfect our solutions in close collaboration with our customers to ensure our color management system and software solutions remain the standard.

Paint & Coating Color Testing Equipment

Paint and coating color testing equipment enables high-precision inspection of product appearance and surface properties, ensuring color consistency and quality stability for various materials including plastics, textiles, cosmetics, metals, paper, food, biomedicine, and coated surfaces. The equipment can accurately measure key indicators such as color difference, gloss, haze, light transmittance, reflectance, and film uniformity. It effectively identifies deviations affecting product appearance, performance, and brand consistency in production lines, laboratories, and R&D environments. 

Paint & Coating Accurate Color Matching With 3nh Color Measuring Device

3nh provides one-stop color measurement solutions, covering a full range of instruments including portable/benchtop spectrophotometers, colorimeters, gloss meters, haze meters, densitometers, hyperspectral imaging systems, non-contact sensors, color matching software, and standard color viewing light booths. These instruments feature high efficiency, stable data, and easy operation. They satisfy both routine rapid testing and professional in-depth analysis. With highly repeatable measurement results and precise analysis of color and surface properties, they help manufacturers strictly control quality and deliver high-quality products that meet industry standards and customer expectations.

Get in Touch With Us For Accurate Color Management

Get cost-effective + smart color management solutions that perfectly fit your workflows. We offer a range of color management solutions that are easy to set up and offer excellent results. Even for those without a lot of color knowledge. 

3NH has set global standards enabling brands to manage their brand image worldwide. We worked really hard to perfect our solutions in close collaboration with our customers. Ensuring our color management system and software solutions meet advanced industry standards. 

Explore Our Spectrophotometer Instrument

Get in touch if you’d like to speak with a Color Expert about your color workflow. You can also learn more about color management with our resource center. This will help you create and successfully control your color program.

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FAQs About  Main Instruments

Gloss levels are usually of five types, namely, matte, eggshell, satin, semi-gloss, and high gloss. These categories are of rising levels of reflectivity of the surface and are utilized to characterize the completion of paints, coatings, and other substances.


For accurate results, install a clean and well temperature-regulated booth that is also sheltered from reflective surfaces and direct sunlight. Ambient light in the booth and the surrounding area from where the light is being viewed should not mix.


The photoelectric integral color‑measuring instrument is what we commonly refer to as a photoelectric colorimeter. It obtains color tristimulus values through one‑shot integral measurement, featuring fast measurement speed and low cost, yet its absolute accuracy is inferior to that of a spectrophotometer. It works well for quick color‑difference comparison. For sophisticated color analysis or color formulation, a spectrophotometer is recommended instead.

How it converts color into digital values

At its core, this type of instrument simulates human color vision. Filters work together with detectors to convert optical signals into electrical signals and then calculate numerical values.

  1. Light strikes the sample, and reflected light enters the instrument.

  2. Filters split the light into three channels: red, green and blue, corresponding to three photodetectors respectively.

  3. Detectors measure the light intensity of each channel. The instrument directly computes tristimulus values X, Y, Z as well as chromaticity coordinates.

  4. The matching performance of optical filters is critical. Better compliance with the Luther condition delivers higher measurement accuracy.

Differences from spectrophotometers

Both instruments measure color, yet they serve quite different application scenarios.

Photoelectric colorimeter: Simple structure, compact size and easy operation with fast measurement speed. It can only test color difference instead of spectrum, and its absolute accuracy is limited, with chromaticity‑coordinate error around ±0.03.

Spectrophotometer: Light is dispersed and measured wavelength‑by‑wavelength. It provides high accuracy (chromaticity‑coordinate error up to ±0.001‑±0.003) and can acquire spectral reflectance curves. However, it comes with higher cost, complicated structure and relatively slower measurement speed.

Suitable application scenarios

Photoelectric colorimeters are preferred for routine production inspection, quick comparison and cost‑sensitive projects.

  • Textile printing & dyeing: Rapid color matching and color‑difference comparison

  • Plastics, coatings and printing: Spot‑checking color consistency on production lines

  • Field‑testing scenarios: Handheld models support on‑site measurement

  • Budget‑limited projects: Photoelectric colorimeters are cost‑effective with sufficient practical functions


To quantify color change, take the original L*a*b* values of a sample, and reread after exposure or processing. Compute the difference as 1/2(Emut1 Emut2). The larger the value of ΔE, the more obvious the change of color is, which can be used in quality or stability testing.


Colors look different under various lights mainly because of metamerism—a phenomenon where two colors that match under one light source fail to match under another, caused by differences in the spectral composition of light.

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Different lighting varies the color perception of objects. Warm light, like that from incandescent bulbs, tends to make colors more yellow, while daylight presents a bluish tint. Our color vision system plays a compensating role using a mechanism called color constancy.

Every light source emits light with a unique "spectral fingerprint" (i.e., the range and intensity of wavelengths it contains). This directly affects how an object’s surface reflects light and how our eyes perceive its color.

A light booth for color matching usually contains D65 (daylight), TL84 (store), A (incandescent) and UV light. LED may also be used in modern time for additional color matching. 


Further Main Instruments Applications and Solutions

Guide to Metal Colorimeters: Principles, Applications, and Standards
Liquid Pharmaceutical Color Detection
Cosmetic Finished Product Color Detection
Ink Color Detection
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