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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

TS-26C Spectrophotometer Machine

TS7700 Grating Spectrophotometer

TS1060 Spectrodensitometer (Advanced Edition)
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TS1050 Spectrodensitometer (Professional Edition)
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TS1010 Spectrodensitometer (Standard Edition)
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MS3012 Multi-angle spectrophotometer

TS8520 Laboratory Spectrophotometer

PS530 Spectrodensitometer
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TS8450 Portable Desktop Spectrophotometer
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PS528 Spectrodensitometer
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YH1600 Haze Meter

YS6002-M Benchtop Color Haze Meter(Planned Production Halt)

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

3nh Spectrophotometers for Paint Formulation 

For paint formulation accuracy, the 3NH top spectrophotometers prioritize high spectral resolution, excellent repeatability, superior inter-instrument agreement (IIA), d/8° integrating sphere design, and compatibility with advanced formulation software. Below are the leading models

  1. 3nh TS8560 Premium Benchtop Spectrophotometer  (Lab & R&D – Highest Accuracy)

    High precision with d/8° integrating sphere, excellent repeatability and inter-instrument agreement. Ideal for laboratory color analysis, accurate paint formulation and strict quality control. Perfect for opaque and translucent paints. Pairs seamlessly with Pecolor software for precise recipe calculation.

  2. Best for: High-end industrial coatings, R&D, and demanding formulation labs, High-volume paint labs, global color standardization

  3. 3nh TS7700 Portable Spectrophotometer

    Compact and easy to operate, supports SCI/SCE measurement. Perfect for on-site color matching, production line inspection and daily paint tinting control. Seamlessly connects to PeColor for on-the-go formulation, rugged, easy-to-use, designed for high-throughput retail environments.

  4. Best for: Retail paint stores, fast, accurate counter matching, On-site tinting, production line checks

  5. 3nh MS3008 Multi-angle Spectrophotometer

    Professional for metallic, pearlescent and special-effect paints. Captures angular color variation to meet high-end automotive and coating formulation requirements. Captures complex light behavior for perfect effect-paint matches.

  6. Best for: Automotive, specialty coatings


All these instruments deliver superior performance by measuring precise spectral data, which is the foundation for accurate, repeatable, and cost-saving paint formulation.

Colorimeters have fixed wavelength filters and LEDs; it is less precise and simpler. Monochromators are applied to spectrophotometers, which scan a spectrum of wavelengths. Giving more detailed spectral information. Spectrophotometers are more sensitive and flexible in complicated analyses.


Because of its unmatched precision, ease of use, adherence to global standards, and consistent long-term reliability.


The number of reflected light is a measure assigned by a gloss meter as a gloss unit (GU). It is a normalized quantity in which 100 GU is normally a perfect reflection at 60°, and 0° GU is a full diffusion.


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.


In industrial production and quality control, color consistency is one of the core elements determining product quality. Whether it is the metallic paint for automobile coating, the dyeing effect of textile fabrics, or the ink matching in packaging and printing, subtle color deviations may lead to cost waste or damage to brand image.

The LAB color space defines colors with a three-dimensional model:

  1. Lightness (L): It indicates the lightness or darkness of a color, ranging from 0 (pure black) to 100 (pure white).

  2. Hue and Saturation (a and b):

    • The a-axis represents the red-green tendency, with positive values leaning towards red and negative values leaning towards green;

    • The b-axis represents the yellow-blue tendency, with positive values leaning towards yellow and negative values leaning towards blue.

It is a globally recognized standard and supported by most modern color measurement equipment. Color is quantitatively analyzed by measuring Lab values with instruments.


Further Main Instruments Applications and Solutions

3nh CR8 for Ore Slag Color Testing
Guide to Metal Colorimeters: Principles, Applications, and Standards
Fabric color consistency testing
Plastic Product Color Detection
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