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Anodized Product Quality

This is the question from user that  already buy black anodized product. How to check the quality of black anodized aluminum after buy something online and the product just come through expedition company. You know that anodized aluminum can have many various color and they all look very smooth and bright but some of them also smooth and dull color.

Some tips to check the quality of anodized product can be as follows:
  1. Anodized aluminum can't easily to scratch, try scratch with your nail, if the surface become scratched this mean that anodized product has bad quality.
  2. Black anodized aluminum product may just cosmetic like only use paint in the surface, and sometime the quality of paint also very good, so you also difficult to scratch with your nail. Usually after paint they also apply some varnished to the coating surface. How to check this, you can use thinner and rubbed with cloth, if the color being blur its mean that product is not anodized but only painting.
  3. Sometime the quality of black anodized color is not very good but you can't scratch and even use thinner also don't changed. This only the black dyes or coloring agent of that product not good but still anodized product.
Those of all the tips on how to check the quality of anodized product.