Interscience Scan® Automatic Colony Counters

The Interscience Scan^® series of automatic color colony counters provide quick and efficient counting of the colonies on the most common supports with high accuracy, excellent reproducibility and automatic saving of images and results.

• All 304 stainless steel body
• CMOS or HD color CCD camera with M12 or HD Japanese lens, 28x zoom & 1 or 1.2 megapixel resolution
• Counting time up to 1000 colonies per second
• 0.1 or 0.05 mm minimum colony size
• Long-life white LEDs / dark field lighting technology
• 6 combinations of lighting and backgrounds
• Automatic counting with manual control
• Automatic separation of clustered colonies
• Compatible with Ø55 to 90mm Petri dishes, pour plating, surface plating, Spiral^® plating, circle plating, chromogenic dishes, inhibition zone reader, PetriFilm™, MC-Media Pads™, Compact Dry™, Medi.CA™ or filtration membranes
• Export of data to printed report, PDF, jpg, png, bmp, Excel™ recountable session
• Can detect and count up to 7 colors on the same dish + 1 color to exclude
• Creation of polygonal exclusion zones
• Manual control to add or subtract colonies
• LIMS and USB connection
• Compatible with DataLink™ traceability system
• Modified data traceability in conformity with 21 CFR part 11 / Connexion with LIMS/SIL systems
• Results/traceability: image / sample number / comments / date / time
• Languages: French, English, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Spanish, German
• 3 year warranty
• 3 year software update
• In compliance with 21 CFR part 11, ISO 7218 and AOAC 977.27
• Manufactured under CE, RoHS, WEEE
• Designed and made in France
• Minimum computer requirements
  • Processor: Intel i3 or superior, 2.8 GHz, quad core recommended
  • Operating system: Windows™ 8 or 10
  • RAM: 4 GB (2 GB of RAM must be reserved for the exclusive use of the Scan^®)
  • Equipment: 2.0 USB port free
  • Screen: 1280 x 1024 pixels or better
• Includes Scan® software, 15V power supply, connection cable, validation plates & user’s manual