Apart from the material itself being cheaper, the nylon chips use a visible-spectrum colorimetric system to display results, so that they can be read using an ordinary optical scanner, which costs 50-70 % less than using a special laser detector.
除了材質便宜，尼龍晶片採用酵素顯色系統，可以用一般掃描器來判讀結果，比起使用雷射螢光掃描器判讀，還可節省五到七成的成本。