Barco v. Artisans
Barco v. Artisans
- Subject: Barco v. Artisans
- From: Roger Howard <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 10:02:50 -0800
I'm looking for feedback on the relative merits and experiences with
these two monitor lines, for use in a critical color environment. We've
got several digital imaging labs here working on a range of projects,
but each with a dedicated focus on digitization of portions of our
collections - ranging from antiquities (ancient statues, relics,
jewelry), to decorative arts (think Louis XIV chairs), to drawings,
pastels, and oil paintings.
For some years now we have depended on Barco monitors - several models
- for our color stations, primarily used for editing and color
correction of scans against matched light boxes. We profile our
scanning devices (drums and flatbeds) and have pretty solid LUTs and
profiles to handle incoming color, but there is often some correction
still needed. Increasingly, we are moving to direct digital capture
(mix of scanning backs and one-shot backs mostly, depending on the
subject), which of course removes the light boxes from the equation,
but otherwise the workflow is fairly similar (though rather than
correcting against a 4x5 in a viewing station we have to do two passes
for color - one at capture time, and one in editing in the labs).
Barco's have been a consistent, known quantity for us, but not without
their troubles, though generally they performed as well and easily as
anything we could find. Now it's time to reconsider hardware for the
next several years, especially as our migration to OSX accelerates and
we've got a number of older Barco displays that won't make the cut (no
drivers). We'd like to keep as homogenous an environment as possible,
of course.
There seems to be a growing attraction to the Artisan line, which we
have investigated and demoed, but are looking for real-world
comparisons from people used to dealing with critical color. Beyond
quality control, the more efficiently (ease vs results) we can keep the
displays in tune with accurate calibration and profiling the better for
our technical support and for our operators.
Aside from cost issues, can you provide any experienced remarks
regarding the merits of Artisans, especially in contrast with the
Barcos we've depended on for so long. Are the calibration and profiling
processes as tight as with the Barco? What are your experiences with
Sony's support - does this feel like a product line prone to possible
abandonment, or is Sony as committed as (obviously) Barco is to their
pro displays? What about bugs and anomalies? I've heard the Artisans
are not particularly friendly to multiple-display setups, for instance.
Any feedback or comments you can provide would be very appreciated.
Demos and testing are part of the plan as well, but that can't
necessarily shake out any gotchas we might face in production. If I'm
missing anything here - other options - any pointers would be great,
too.
Best regards,
Roger Howard
The J. Paul Getty Trust
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