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Automatic colony counters Scan®

Counters with a digital camera and a high technology software that can be linked to a PC via a FireWire connection. They count all colonies on a Petri dish in less than 1 second and provide a complete, fast, accurate and traceable reading of the result.
Counting can be done on different plates depending on model:
Scan® 300: on Petri dish surface, mass and Spiral (55-90mm).
Scan® 500: on Petri dish surface, mass and Spiral (55-90mm), chromogenic Petri dish and inhibition zones.
Scan® 1200: on Petri dish surface, mass and Spiral (55-90mm), chromogenic Petri dish and inhibition zones, Compact Dry®, Petri Film®, RIDA® count/Sanita kun® and Petri dishes with filtration membranes.
Scan® 4000: color HD automatic colony counter, fits all sizes of Petri dishes and all culture media. It even allows reading of square plates of 120 mm and 150 mm petri plates. Its indirect lighting ensures great comfort of use, high precision and excellent reproducibility.

Technical specifications:
- 6 optimized lighting & contrast combinations.
- Automatic adaptation to any agar type
- Detects and counts up to seven different colours on same Petri dish.
- Count in 1 second.
- Minimum size of colonies: Scan® 300 and Scan® 500: 0,1mm and Scan® 1200: 0,05mm.
- Automatic separation of confluent colonies.
- Polygonal exclusion areas generation.
- Powerful zoom: x7 in Scan® 300 and Scan® 500; x28 in Scan® 1200 and x64 in Scan® 4000
- Long lasting LED lighting.
- Exportable data to Excel™, PDF, JPEG, BMP.
- Connection to LIMS network and report printing.

Provided with: Scan® software CD-ROM, FireWire (PCI, PCMCIA, Expresscard, adapter 6/4 pins).
Comply with the regulation CFR 21 Part 11.