Re: Pantone Color Que
Re: Pantone Color Que
- Subject: Re: Pantone Color Que
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 23:16:49 EST
In a message dated 12/11/02 6:38:42 PM, email@hidden writes:
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I have recently had the use of one of these Color Cue devices. Because of
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its ability to read and display Lab data I did a few comparisons with our
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DTP41.
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I found it needed to be calibrated every time I turned it on, nothing too
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surprising. I did find it varied a lot from the DTP41 especially in high
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saturation or density areas. Midtones seemed closer.
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Maybe we got a lemon.
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Not entirely sure how it works, looks like it only has one CCD in it - no
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filters ?
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It has one sensor, no filters, and a series of colored LEDs to determine the
sample's color; kind of an inverse colorimeter. The Lab values it displays
are not for the color you measure, but the nearest Pantone match as chosen by
the ColorCue.
C. David Tobie
Design Cooperative
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