Slide stainers

Slide stainers are laboratory instruments that apply stains and reagents to microscope slides in a controlled sequence, so that tissue sections, cytology smears or blood films develop the contrast a pathologist needs to read them. The instrument moves slides through a series of reagent baths or dispenses reagents onto each slide, following a programmed protocol that fixes timing and volume the same way on every run. On Questpair, new, used and refurbished laboratory slide stainers are listed together: of the current listings, 99 percent are used. Prices run from EUR 16 to EUR 172.178, a spread that separates a benchtop slide warmer from a fully automated histology line.