Re: Attack of the Spyders. Oh My!
Re: Attack of the Spyders. Oh My!
- Subject: Re: Attack of the Spyders. Oh My!
- From: "Andrew Rodney" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 17:09:23 -0700
on 11/11/02 2:00 PM, Anthony Sanna at email@hidden wrote:
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CATCH ONE: I just spoke to ColorVision Tech Support about support for
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the DTP92usb. I was told that OptiCal for OSX - for now & in the
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future - will only support their own Spyder (however, they have a
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convenient trade-in program for your old device).
That sucks! One of the beauties of Optical (a great software product) was
that it supported so many devices. I'm going to be very hard pressed to
recommend that product if it will ONLY work with the Spyder.
It seems that Color Vision has decided (finally) that it is a hardware
company (not a software company). Shame. They had pretty nice software but
if it's only going to support one device after years of supporting many, I'm
tossing it.
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OPTION B: Buy another monitor profiling package that works on OSX with
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the DTP92 (i.e.: $99 buys pCity's ICC Display).
I'm not a fan of the user interface from nearly all of pCity's offerings but
you can't knock their math! The products work very well. Considering that
the DTP-92 is an excellent piece of hardware (some would argue much better
than a Spyder), AND you are being forced into a position I think isn't a
good one, I'd go with new software and keep your expensive X-Rite device.
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OPTION C: Buy another software package AND device that offers inherent
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advantages over Options A & B, like a Gretag/MacBeth package that works
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on CRT's & LCD's and is expandable for other uses, such as replacing my
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Digital SwatchBook for color control & sampling, and possibly, print
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profiling. Chromix has the Eye-One Pro for $1449 ($1649-UV) that would
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replace both X-Rite instruments, and seems to be very expandable.
Go with the EyeOne if you are tired of measuring a patch at a time and I'd
even suggest using ICC Display with the EyeOne (a very good combo). I'm not
sure how necessary the UV version is (the jury is still way out on this
one). I've used the non UV for months and months before the product was even
announced (beta) and haven't seen any profile needs that for me, warranted
the need of UV filters. And I do a lot of photo printers. I still have my
Swatchbook for the times once a year I want to show students ColorShop (a
fantastic piece of software that X-Rite has completely ignored... Another
company that can't decide if it wants to be hardware or software specific).
At least with the EyeOne, you can use EyeOne Match (free) which has some of
the capabilities of ColorShop (but not enough).
Andrew Rodney
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