Re: hardware advice
Re: hardware advice
- Subject: Re: hardware advice
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 11:28:29 EST
In a message dated 11/30/01 9:50:07 AM, email@hidden writes:
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"Paper white "B" values that are -1 or -2 with the SpectroCam UV can be
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-12
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or -14 with the EyeOne... that strikes me as significant."
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That is quite significant!
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Just as a matter of interest, did you make the readings with a non-UV
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Spectrocam also? One of the initail marketing promotions for this product
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was;
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due to the nature of the xenon gas tube technology (which emits very little
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UV
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light) used by the Spectrocam, the device is not as susceptible to the
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adverse
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effects of brightening agents used in papers which also makes it more
accurate
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at reading fluorescent inks.
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I would be very interested to hear a third parties objective opinion of
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this,
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and of course save a bit of investigation over here :-) that's what I value
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most from this list, informed opinions :-))
I used non-UV filtered SpectroCams from back before public release, up until
the UV model was first available; and while they had a reduced suceptability
to paper whiteners, the UV model improves direct read results even further. I
no longer have to edit profile whitepoints with the UV model.
C. David Tobie
Design Cooperative
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