Scan® 500 Automatic Colony Counter

Scan® 500 is an automatic color colony counter that offers quick and traceable counting results. Equipped with a digital camera and a powerful software, it connects to a PC via Firewire connection. Widely used in food microbiology, it counts colonies, mesures antibiograms and automatically saves all data, images and results.

Advantages

• Instant results
• Traceability: automatic saving of all data, images and results
• Barcode reader and LIMS connection
• Data export to ExcelTM
• Minimum size of detected colony: 0.1 mm

Technical specifications

• Stainless steel, compact (24 cm width)
• Color CMOS camera, digital zoom x 7
• Camera resolution: 640 x 480 pixels
• Lighting system: 6 combinations, top and/or bottom light, white or black background
• Brightness, contrast and sensitivity automatically optimized by the software
• Automatic adjustment of the counting area
• Automatic settings for more than 20 pres-set media (PCA/TSA, MRS, VRBL, TBX, TSC, Baird Parker, GVPC, L.Mono, YM and more…)
• Counts on: Petri dishes (55-90 mm), Spiral® plates
• Minimum size of detected colony: 0.1 mm
• Automatic separation of clustered colonies
• Creation of polygonal exclusion zones
• Manual addition and removal of colonies
• Detects and counts up to 7 colors on the same dish
• Adapts itself to most kinds of agar
• Long lasting LED lighting
• User friendly software: press one button to count
• Export of data to Excel™, PDF
• Software in French, English, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Spanish
• Automatic archiving and printing of data: pictures, comments and results
• Traceability formats: Excel™, JPEG, BMP, PDF and Scan® printed report
• LIMS and barcode reader connections