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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

Benchtop Spectrophotometer YS6060

TS8290 Portable Vertical Spectrophotometer

8 Angle Color Spectrophotometer MS3008

Model TS7708 spectrometer

Multi-function Spectrophotometer ST70

Spectrophotometer ST60

ST10 spectrocolorimeter

Spectrocolorimeter PS2070

Spectrocolorimeter PS2060

Spectrocolorimeter PS2010

TS7036 Precision Spectrocolorimeter

TS7030 Portable Spectrocolorimeter

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

In the study of chemical reactions, calorimetry deals with changes in heat (energy and enthalpy). Spectrophotometry is the measurement of the light absorbance or light transmittance to determine the concentration or color of a solution. The first one monitors the thermal processes, whereas the second one addresses the aspects of light and color.


A colorimeter is sufficient for basic, routine color checks, while a spectrophotometer is needed for precise, comprehensive color analysis—here’s the clear breakdown:

When a Colorimeter is Sufficient

  1. Simple color matching needs: Ideal for checking if a sample matches a predefined standard (e.g., basic paint batches, plastic parts with solid colors).

  2. Consistent lighting conditions: Works well when measurements are done under fixed, standard light sources (no need to account for varied light effects).

  3. Cost-sensitive, high-volume tasks: Perfect for production lines requiring fast, low-cost color checks without advanced data analysis.

When to Use a Spectrophotometer

  1. Precise color quantification: Necessary for measuring Lab values (lightness, red-green, yellow-blue axes) or detecting subtle color deviations (critical for automotive coatings, high-end textiles).

  2. Complex color analysis: Required for metallic/pearlescent finishes, transparent materials, or samples with gloss/texture variations.

  3. Compliance and documentation: Essential when precise color data (spectral curves) is needed for quality audits, regulatory compliance, or brand color standardization.


Pick a haze meter that correlates with your materials, precision needs, and applicable testing protocols. For lab-level precision, a bench-top version is advisable; for a rapid field check, a portable haze meter is appropriate. International standards must be met at all times.


L*a*b* is an L*a*b* color space. The L* is a measure of lightness (as 0 = black, 100 = white), a* indicates the green to red axis, and b* indicates the blue to yellow axis. It is also common in color measurement in terms of precision and reliability.


During color evaluation, maintaining consistent light sources and viewing conditions is critical. Standard viewing conditions vary depending on the object being evaluated, including factors such as brightness, illumination angle, and observer position. Accurate evaluation can be achieved by establishing a proper environment that meets these requirements.

In development and production sites with extremely high color requirements, such as the automotive and cosmetics industries, accurately reproducing colors is essential. Color evaluation helps determine whether the color matches the intended image or target color. It is the process of measuring color, analyzing its characteristics, and evaluating how well it aligns with a specific target color. 

color measurement and color evaluation

Visual Color Evaluation

Color differences are compared visually using standard light sources or reference colors (such as color cards). This method allows color confirmation under conditions close to natural light, making it ideal for color inspection in design and production processes. 

Instrumental Color Evaluation

Measurements are performed using a spectrophotometer or colorimeter. This method eliminates the subjective influence of the operator and is widely used for product quality control and industrial applications, enabling scientific quantification of color.


Color evaluation is widely used across industries such as product development and quality control departments in manufacturing. 

Typical applications include: 

  • Automotive Industry

    Used for quality evaluation of automotive paint, exterior parts, and interior components.

  • Coatings & Materials Industry

    Used to maintain and manage color accuracy for coatings, plastics, glass products, and more.

  • Cosmetics Industry

    Used to verify color consistency in products such as lipsticks and foundations.

  • Molded Products (Resin & Plastics)

    Used to evaluate color difference and uniformity of surface effects in finished products.

  • Furniture & Building Materials Industry

    Used to ensure color consistency in materials such as wood and plywood. Food & Pharmaceutical Industry Used to assess color consistency of food packaging and color differences in pharmaceutical capsules.

Yes. Ultrasonic coating thickness gauges can pinpoint layers within a multi-coat system. Users can examine the separate thicknesses of a primer, base coat, and clear coat. In contrast, magnetic and eddy current gauges usually measure the overall thickness of the coating. 

Further Main Instruments Applications and Solutions

Fabric color consistency testing
Overview of Printing Color Measurement Instruments
Advanced Color Management in the Textile Industry
Automotive Paint Color Detection
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