• Quick start with on-line help.
• "Expert Tolerancing" prevents unrealistic specifications.
• Display flexibility speeds up data analysis.
• Unique copy and paste function allows you to create custom reports.
• Optiview's graphical user interface makes operation intuitive.
• On-screen color allows quick relative color QC judgments.
• Fast, easy batch control with command queue builder and automatic trial naming.
• Enhanced data sharing and control.
• Easy pass/fail determination.
• Shade search improves matching efficiency.
• Statistical options offer greater versatility.
• Viewing and storing multi-angle data is simple with Optiview and a GretagMacbeth multi-angle spectrophotometer.

Combine Optiview with any of our high integrity spectrophotometers for a powerful solution to your color control challenges at a price to suit the most challenging budget. Typical solutions to color quality challenges include:
Plastics Industry

Color-Eye® 3100 or Color-Eye 7000A and Optiview provide both transmission (less than opaque substrates) and reflection measurements. Both instruments offer the superior, repeatable measurements and the flexibility of variable aperture sizes. From cosmetics containers, to molded plastic computer and electronics housings, to extruded sheets and office furniture parts, the Color-Eye 3100 or Color-Eye 7000 can easily measure different shapes.

For measuring finished products, the portable ColorChecker® 545 or Color-Eye 580 and Optiview enable you to take thousands of measurements and download them to the computer (with GretagMacbeth's exclusive SRAM card capability). The instruments also operate stand-alone with their own on-board color quality control software and unique graphics display.

The Color-Eye 2180 and Optiview offers an economical color quality control solution. The Color-Eye 2180 is a compact, benchtop spectrophotometer that provides the color measurement accuracy you've come to expect from GretagMacbeth.

Coatings Industry

Color-Eye 3100 or Color-Eye 7000A and Optiview provide both reflection and transmission measurements for coating on glass, plastic and other translucent substrates. Both can utilize liquid and powder sample accessories for the incoming inspection of raw materials.

For those hard to reach places such as automotive interiors, the portable ColorChecker 545 and Optiview with SAE J-1545 (Society of Automotive Engineers statistical methods for the color evaluation of vehicle components) are the perfect pair. When you need to measure finished product such as a coated coil, the portable ColorChecker 545 or Color-Eye 580 and Optiview enable you to take thousands of measurements and download them to the computer (with GretagMacbeth's exclusive SRAM card capability). The instruments also operate stand-alone with their own on-board color quality control software and unique graphics display.

The Color-Eye 2180 and Optiview offers an economical color quality control solution. The Color-Eye 2180 is a compact benchtop spectrophotometer that provides the color measurement accuracy you've come to expect from Macbeth.

Pharmaceutical Industry

Color-Eye 7000A or Color-Eye 3100 and Optiview provide flexible areas of view for a variety of sample sizes. In addition, the Color-Eye 3100 can be configured with optional accessories suited for viewing capsules, tablets, and powders. As an added bonus, Optiview and the Color-Eye 7000 or Color-Eye 3100 will calculate correlated APHA index for the analysis of waste water.

Textile Industry

Control the effects of optical brighteners (OBA's) and fluorescent whitening agents (FWA's) with the Color-Eye 7000A or Color-Eye 3100 and Optiview. Both systems allow you to easily set the UV component to a level equal to that found in natural daylight. This means that the system sees the color the same way you do in daylight and in stores with windows. Either system can handle your shade sorting and shade tagging needs.

For a quick color check on large rolls or bobbins, the portable ColorChecker 545 or Color-Eye 580 give you flexibility and the unique ability to shade sort, obtain whiteness and metamerism measurements with or without Optiview. (Either portable instrument can be equipped with GretagMacbeth's exclusive Indices and Shade Sort SRAM Cards.)