K8 Colony Pickers

Kbiosystems K8 Series of automated colony picking systems offer laboratories the ideal medium throughput solution for reliable, consistent identification and extraction for sample recovery.

Offering complete versatility, the K8 Series will work with a wide range of plates for both source and destination, such as microplates (96, 384 shallow and deep well formats), Petri dishes (from 4 to 15cms), Omni style trays, multi-well growth plates and bio assay trays.

An increase in operational capacity is offered with the option to fit one or two destination plate automation lanes. These allow the processing of up to 220 standard destination plates and up to 60 deep well blocks. Second stage automation allows the automatic handling of 8 source tray locations. This complete system allows the processing of up to 84,480 picked colonies. Picking accuracy is in excess of 98.5%. Use of different pin types allow transfer volumes to be defined. All pins are manufactured in 316 stainless steel for ease of cleaning and longevity.