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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Zak, post: 30928, member: 824&quot;]I work in the color measurement business.&nbsp; That is...an object is measured with a number of differant devices so that many factors are all consistent:&nbsp; light source, receiver, processor, etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>You see my company&#039;s products in everything to Home Depot (match paints exactly) to Auto Body shops (match the front panel to the side panel), to printed ads (Coke owns their color <b><span style="color: red">red</span> </b> so it better be the same <b><span style="color: red">red</span> </b> from ad to ad).</p><p><br /></p><p>Before, it used to be done with the human eye and one person&#039;s opinion of what is the color was not necessarily the same as the next person.&nbsp; Necessity produced these accurate devices and I see a day when laser scanning and color measuring devices will &quot;grade&quot; a coin without all the variables that we argue about.</p><p><br /></p><p>You can change the grading scale all you want, but as long as human subjectivity is involved, people will always disagree.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have seen this technology work with other industries and my co-workers tell me they have &quot;bigger fish to fry&quot; than dealing with the numismatic community.&nbsp; I have seen a state quarter laser scanned for all of its detail and reproduced on a milling machine...just for demonstration purposes!</p><p><br /></p><p>If a perfect coin is &quot;X&quot; and deviations from a specific data point would then be &quot;Y&quot;, the greater the difference, the lower the grade.&nbsp; Until that day, I will lobby those in these industries that the coin community needs this, so I guess until that day, we only have our opinions.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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