Colorimeter is also called the color meter, it is a kind of measuring instrument for material color characteristics, colorimeter is primarily used to measured the color of the material, color, color value measurement and analysis, if the colorimeter machine with computer, can improve the ability of analysis and processing of color, and the user can according to need to color from computer storage in the library to find out all kinds of data for color matching. In this article, we will introduce some basic about colorimeter.