Re: Portable Spectrophotometers
Re: Portable Spectrophotometers
- Subject: Re: Portable Spectrophotometers
- From: Jim Rich <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2002 12:30:00 -0800
Tom,
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Could you explain this a bit more please? Do you mean that because I can do
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spot readings with the i1, I can read control bars? We are probably going to
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use the X-Rite 530 to do all calibration... but yes, if we didn't have that
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we need the spot reading capabilities of the i1.
As for the i1 reading control bars with dot values and density, as far as I
know that9s not happened yet. You can use i1share with the eyeone to read
pms colors or just measuring spectral data.
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I was impressed by the built in intelligence of the iCColor. I was also
told
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by Gretag that the iCColor wasn't a "handy little" instrument, but a desktop
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unit that wasn't portable at all. Could you take it on the road? Is the
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iCColor as flexible as the Spectrolino? Does it read a whole chart at once
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like the Spectrolino can? How well can you feed newspaper through its
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rollers? Its also really new. Has anyone had enough time with it yet -
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independent of Gretag's internal testing?
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If you want to take a small box or carry case on the road (say in your
backpack), the eye one is my tool of choice. I don9t have an ICColor in my
office yet, but I saw it up close and personnel two weeks ago and it did not
strike me as a portable device or as an easy to move device such as the
eyeone or DTP41. But then again I move the Spectrolino which is bigger, so
anything is possible. It is my understanding that the ICColor is a strip
reader of so it is different than the Spectrolion/Spectroscan combination.
My read on the ICColor device is that it was created for photo labs and that
it can also easily be used in operations that need to measure spectral data
from reflection prints. It also measures transparent density and not
transmissive spectral data.
Also we ran an unscientific test with the ICColor by profiling the same
printer using an eyeone and a spectroliono and the results were close to
identical.
From a marketing point of view Gretag now offers three different prices for
taking spectral data measurements. It could be called the low (i1), medium
(ICColor) and high (spectrolino/spectroscan) strategy for high quality
measuring tools at different price points. From a competition point of view
I would like to see the cost of ICColor fall into line with the DTP41.
Oh yea, if you are all wrapped around having a UV filter on your
spectrophotmeter then the ICColor will not be for you. It does not have
one.
Jim Rich
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