Re: Color Measurement Accuracy - Reflective mode
Re: Color Measurement Accuracy - Reflective mode
- Subject: Re: Color Measurement Accuracy - Reflective mode
- From: Armand Rosenberg <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 12:02:26 -0400
Thank you Andrew for the great info, as usual!
So consider
what an additional cost to you would be with both instruments to make
profiles. With the SpectroCam, you could get away for a bit less money
depending on what profiling package you get that supports it (You could for
example drop another $999 for Matchbox and chuck the ColorMouse). For $1500
you'd have the Eye-One Pro software package which is really quite nice and
produces very good output profiles as you'd expect from GretagMacbeth. Of
course, as GretagMacbeth starts sending out SDK's (which I believe they have
done) other software companies will support the Eye-One internally into
their own products.
Hmmm... again... To some of us, $1500 software is not exactly
inexpensive. Since I already own CP 2.5, I'd love to have an
affordable scanning instrument to use with it (and yes, it's time to
chuck my ColorMouse...) So I only want the SpectroCam or Eye-One as
hardware, but only if it'll actually talk to CP 2.5... A $600
scanning spectrometer would be heaven.
I for one can't afford a new profiling package for now.
And by the way: that ruler you get with Eye-One Pro (but not with
Eye-One Monitor) must be made of some fancy Platinum-Titanium alloy
if GretagMacbeth is charging about $900 for it (as in going from
Eye-One Monitor to Eye-One Pro). Or is $900 the price of the little
utility that allows reading reflective targets???
I see another missed matketing opportunity by GretagMacbeth for those
of us who've already invested in fairly pricy printer profiling
software but would love quicker/better hardware than the geriatric
ColorMouse to use with it...
I wish I could afford the new GretagMacbeth $1500 profiling software,
but unfortunately my pockets are pretty shallow so I need to upgrade
in bits and pieces, and the piece that I really find lacking at the
moment is my glacially slow ColorMouse...
Armand