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Scan 500

automatic color colony counter

Scan 500 is a high-tech automatic colony counter. It counts colonies on a Petri dish in less than half a second and gives you quick, accurate, complete and traceable reading of the results.
With its CCD camera and a powerful software, it connects to a PC via a Firewire connection automatically export results to Excel.

Advantages

• Simple and user-friendly user interface
• Efficient: only one setting cursor
• Distinction of colonies according to their colors
• Traceability: all data is saved. Connection LIMS / barcodes
• Custom settings
• Export to Excel^™
• Printable report
• Great reproductibility and repeatability

Applications

• Food microbiology, pharmaceutical, medical, environmental
• Automatic counting of:
  - Poured plates, spread plates and Spiral plates

Color detection

Antibiograms / inhibition zones
Mesures the diameter of up to 6 zones on a 90mm Petri dish. Analysis and results are automatically saved.
Direct R.I.S (Resistant Intermediate Susceptible) results are given.

Traceability and reproductibility: automatic export of the results to Excel™
Export to Excel™ and screenshots savings for allow to consult and / or recount any time you want.
The LIMS connection and the barcode reader connection ensures traceability, essential to any quality analysis

CFU Ranking according to their color
Once detected, CFU are analyzed and ranked according to their color. Each class of colony is defined by a color and a user chosen name, interactively.

Thereafter, during the automatic counting, any detected CFU whose average color approaches the base color of a class is classified in this class.
In addition to the number and concentration of total CFU sample, the results of a counting show the number and concentration of CFU per class. The names given by the user for the classes serve as reference in the display of the results.

High-performance and flexibility 
The Scan software is user-friendly and efficient. Its use does not require any special training. All functions are combined in a window and only one button to count and one cursor to optimize enumeration are required. Download the demo version of the Scan software developed by Interscience, available on the site for a trial!  

Delivered with one unit :

• Firewire PCI card
• CD Rom Software
• Connecting cables
• User's manual
• 2 validation plates

Technical specifications

• CD color camera
• Lighting by white LED
• Stainless steel
• ISO 9001 : 2000 / ROHS / WEEE CE
• Automatic counting of colonies plated on:
• on Spiral plate
• spread plates
• pour plates
• Automatic setting of lighting and contrast
• Only one cursor to optimize counting
• Minimum size of detected colonies: < 0.1 mm
• Automatic separation of clustered colonies
• Exclusion zones
• Zoom
• Traceability: LIMS and barcode reader connection
• Each counting is saved
• Data export to EXCEL
• Printable report
• Firewire connection
• Dimensions (L x l x h): 28 x 28 x 27 cm - 6.5 kg

Program specifications :

• Counts up to 7 different colors on the same plate
• Automatically adapts to all kind of agar (chromogenic…)
• Read Spiral, spread and pour plates
• 6 combinations of lighting and background color:
• lighting (upper and/or lower)
• sliding background (white or black)
• User friendly software : only one button to press to start counting
• One cursor to optimize counting
• One window access to all functions
• Polygonal exclusion areas
• Minimum size of detected colony : < 0.1 mm
• Automatic separation of clustered colonies
• Clear and precise vizualisation of detected colonies :
  their center is marked with the cross
• Zoom on the image function
• Memorizes screenshots of the plates for recounts
• All recorded data can be transferred to Excel

Minimum requirements:

• Operating system: Windows™ XP ,Windows™ Vista and Windows™ 7
• Processor: Intel Celeron or Pentium4, AMD Athlon or better
• Frequency: 1GHz
• RAM : 512 Mbytes
• features: Firewire connector (6 pins) or free PCI slot, CD-ROM drive
• Screen resolution: 1024 X 768 or better
• Computer typ: Desktop computer (laptop not recommended)

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