Your Partners in Precision

At Applied Image, precision isn’t an outcome—it’s our promise. For over four decades, we’ve created the measurement, calibration, and imaging standards that help innovators in multiple industries capture more clearly, measure more accurately, and deliver with complete confidence. 

When your application requires exacting precision – from barcodes to Mars Rover missions — you deserve a partner you can trust.

Looking for a Global Supplier of Precision Imaged Optical Components and Calibration Standards? Welcome to Applied Image.

Whether you require NIST Traceable calibration standards, precision-imaged optical components to test, calibrate, align, control, or measure your optics, photonics, or imaging systems, or need OEM components to work within your product design, we’re here to support your unique requirements.

We partner with executives, product managers, and engineers on the design, evaluation, and calibration of photonics-based systems for improving product performance, first-time quality, and compliance. 

  • Our facility is ISO 9001:2015 certified.
  • Our calibration lab is ISO 17025:2017 accredited, ensuring high quality, accurate, and consistent performance.

You’ll find our standard products showcase the exceptional capabilities of Applied Image. Even better, when you collaborate with our sales engineers to create a custom solution, we add value to your innovation, system design, and performance-evaluation needs. Let’s talk today.

Flexible Solutions for Photonics-Based Systems

First-time quality is essential for most industries.

Telecom, automotive, medical, defense, aerospace, machine vision, and manufacturing included. Our precision-imaged optical components, test targets & charts, calibration standards, and photomasks support a limitless range of applications.

 

 

Applied Image is a world leader in providing the objective standards industries need to ensure their system’s quality.

Off-the-shelf, Modified-off-the-shelf, and Custom components are part of the flexible solutions our experienced sales team offers customers to drive designs that best align with their goals while reducing problems down the road. From ideation and rapid prototyping and testing to implementation, we have the equipment, capacity, supplier connections, facilities, and logistical capabilities to deliver to your specifications, budgets, and timelines.

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SPIE. Photonics West

BiOS Expo Jan. 17 - Jan. 18, 2026

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Photonics West Jan. 20 - Jan. 22, 2026

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Electronic Imaging

March 1 – 5, 2026

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Customer Reviews

“Our company has been selling and using Calibration and Test Cards from APPLIED IMAGE for more than a decade. We’re impressed by the high-quality of the products and the excellent service of the entire organization. I’ve been especially pleased to see how much my customers appreciate the 2-D test and calibration cards. The 0.2 mm cell size for some codes was unique and has become an important part of how we check the performance of the camera systems in higher resolution applications.
Michael Laufen,
Owner, aiident Laufen
“Product was received in good condition and packaging.”
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Working with Dawn and Darren was easy. They are wonderful!
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Applied Image met my need for a custom product for which I searched many months. Not only was it perfect for the need,  their expertise and understanding of standards provided the necessary traceability to allow our customers to recognize its value in keeping our product consistent and accurate.
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All my parts are semi-custom and Applied Image always comes in matching my print.
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Applied Image has a quick response time and they provided solutions to meet my client’s requirements.
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Great communication, and super-fast responses!
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Everyone at Applied Image was always focused on our needs, even when they had to innovate to meet our needs. It would be impossible to ask for more.
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“You have great sales folks.”
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