Re: Color calibration
Re: Color calibration
- Subject: Re: Color calibration
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 14:34:06 EST
In a message dated 2/1/01 11:20:32 PM, email@hidden writes:
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I have a LaCie Electron 22Blue (original model), and want to do calibration
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for it. I'm looking at either the LaCie Blue Eye Hardware Calibrator,
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or the
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OptiCal package with the spyder sensor. Any compelling technical reasons
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to
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go with one vs the other?
I own both, and there is really no comparison between the Monitor Spyder (8
sensors, excellent specs, durable construction etc) and the Chroma4 (three
sensors, reminds me of a CrackerJack prize...). The Spyder is really more
comparable to the much more expensive X-Rite DPT92/Monitor Optimizer.
TheChroma4 is not competitive when it is priced similarly to the Spyder, as
it typically is, and to pay nearly triple the usual price to get it as the
LaCie version is downright insulting. For at hird that price you could get
the Spyder with PhotoCal and have superior software, superior hardware, and a
universally usable package.
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Also, if I choose to buy a profiler, the choices would be Color Partnership
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RGB Profiler or Monaco EZ Color.
A closer match than the previous comparison, but user's lists like the Epson
inkjet list are pretty consistant in their preference of ProfilerRGB for its
usability, and its profile editing capabilities.
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Since I'm assuming the RGB Profiler would
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work well with the OptiCal (since they are sold bundled), I'm interested
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in
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hearing how well the LaCie works with the Monaco, and whether the La Cie
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calibrator would even work with the RGB Profiler.
Monitor calibration and printer calibration are basicly unrelated. What you
want is the best monitor calibration, and the best printer calibration. I
suspect you would be happiest with the ProfilerRGB, and with Spyder, (and
could save a bit of money by using PhotoCal instead of OptiCal with the
Spyder) but which you choose for one does not directly effect the other,
except through the quality of your results. The only other relationship is
that you can often save money by buying both items as a bundle.
C. David Tobie
Design Cooperative
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