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ISO 2470-1 Brightness (C Illuminant)

Standard:

ISO

Method:

ISO 2470-1 Brightness

Title:

Measurement of diffuse blue reflectance factor — Part 1: Indoor daylight conditions

Scope

ISO 2470- Brightness specifies a method for measuring the diffuse blue reflectance factor (ISO brightness) of pulps, papers and boards.

This part of ISO 2470 is limited in its scope to white and near-white pulps, papers and boards. The measurement can only be made in an instrument in which the ultraviolet energy level of the illumination has been adjusted to correspond to the CIE illuminant C using a fluorescent reference standard.

Principle

A test piece is illuminated diffusely in a standard instrument and the light reflected normal to the surface is either allowed to pass through a defined optical filter and then measured by a photodetector or measured by an array of photosensitive diodes, where each diode responds to a different effective wavelength. The brightness is then determined directly from the output from the photodetector or by calculation from the photosensitive diode outputs using the appropriate weighting function.

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