PANTONE Color Cue
PANTONE Color Cue
- Subject: PANTONE Color Cue
- From: Marco Ugolini <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 21:21:56 -0800
Title: PANTONE Color Cue
Dear friends,
Has anyone made a comparison between the values recorded by the PANTONE Color Cue spectrocolorimeter and one of the currently available consumer-level spectrophotometers (say, the Eye-One, for example)?
For those who haven't heard of it, the Color Cue is a portable measuring device (Pantone calls it a "spectrocolorimeter") with which to measure printed color samples on paper (there is also a version for textiles). Once the measurement is taken, one is offered a match for a PANTONE color (coated, uncoated, etc.) most closely resembling the color being measured. But, more importantly for color management purposes, Pantone also claims that it's capable of reading colors in CMYK (one wonders what flavor of it...possibly the elusive "SWOP"), CMYK Euro, Adobe® RGB (1998), sRGB, HTML, L*a*b*, Hexachrome® and XYZ color modes.
If these claims are verifiable, this sounds attractive, given that the Color Cue can be purchased over the web for as little as $250. The fact that the unit is self-contained and battery-powered, is both a downside -- it cannot be connected to a CPU, like a regular spectrophotometer -- and an advantage, since it's very portable.
I do not have a Color Cue handy, so for me the question is: how accurate are its L*a*b measurements when compared with those taken with a traditional spectrophotometer like the Eye-One? Has anyone made a comparison? Also, how consistent are the results between different Color Cues? Do the measurements vary at all or much between one unit and another?
Finally, one last question: I know what a spectrophotometer is (at least, I know what it does, if not the color science behind it). What is a spectrophotometer capable of doing that a "spectrocolorimeter" is not? And lastly, is a "colorimeter" the same thing as a "spectrocolorimeter"?
Thank you in advance to anyone who will be so kind as to answer my questions.
Marco Ugolini
Mill Valley, CA
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