About Us

HunterLab has been specializing in solving color problems for 50 years.
Our color expertise and Customer support, combined with our growing family of bench-top, portable and online sensors, results in the best and most cost effective solution for your color measurement needs.
When you choose HunterLab, an ISO 9001 certified company, you select more than a source for sophisticated instruments. You chose a team of professionals capable of understanding your color objectives and offering valuable insight into resolving color problems. We made color measurement a science - in fact, we wrote the book on it.
To help you improve your color control programs, educational seminars are available where a variety of color and appearance subjects, for novice and experts alike, are discussed by our team of experienced instructors.
HunterLab has a range of bench-top and portable instruments that are ideal for measuring the color of raw materials through finished product including resins, solvents, color concentrate, plaques, molded, extruded, and blown product as well as preforms. The sample can be in the form of solids, powders, granules, films and liquids. Opacity, yellowness and haze can also be measured. For in-process control, measurement systems are available for continuous on-line reflected or transmitted color monitoring of pellets, extruded sheet and film.
Measurements of appearance attributes are widely used in the plastics industry:
- Color
- Whiteness
- Yellowness
- Haze
- Opacity

Rely on HunterLab color measurement systems to help make sure your products meet tough standards for color quality and consistency.
HunterLab Videos
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HunterLab - Measure Color...Measure Quality
11491 Sunset Hills Road
Reston, VA 20190-5280
UNITED STATES
Phone: 703-471-6870
Fax: 703-471-4237
Contact: Sales
- MiniScan® EZ Portable Color-Measurement Spectrophotometer
- UltraScan® VIS Spectrophotometer
- D25LT Colorimeter
- ColorQuest® OL
- EasyMatch® OL
- ColorQuest® OL
- SpectraProbe® XE
- ColorTrend HT® Color Monitor
- LabScan® XE Automated Spectrophotometer
- ColorQuest® XT Self-Contained Transmission Spectrophotometer
- ColorQuest® XE Spectrophotometer
- EasyMatch® QC Software
- ColorFlex® Color Meter System
- UltraScan® PRO Spectrophotometer
- HunterLab Introduces New Easy-to-Use Portable Color Measurement Instrument
- NEW UltraScan® PRO Spectrophotometer — The Professional Color Measurement Spectrophotometer
- ColorQuest® XE Touch Screen Display
- EasyMatch®QC Color Quality Control Software
- Bandwidth, Resolution, Reporting Interval, And The UltraScan PRO
- How To Measure Translucent Materials
- How To Measure PET Pellets Using CTHT
- Color Vs. Appearance: Choose The Appropriate Instrument Geometry For Your Color Measuring Instrument
- Measuring Highway Signage Material Using The ColorFlex 45/0
- Color Measurement Of Plastic Pellets Using HunterLab Instruments
- Why Use An Appearance Measurement Instrument?
- PET Bottle Manufacturing And Color Measurement
- HunterLab Announces Color Seminar
- HunterLab Colorimetric Spectrophotometers Versus Analytical UV-VIS Spectrophotometers
- Identification Of Measurement Parameters For Effective Color Communication
- Hunter L, a, b Versus CIE 1976 L*a*b*
- The Visual Observing Situation
- How To Measure Plastic Preforms


