Re: X-Rite DTP20/Pulse
Re: X-Rite DTP20/Pulse
- Subject: Re: X-Rite DTP20/Pulse
- From: Terry Wyse <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 09:10:02 -0500
On Nov 29, 2006, at 12:28 AM, Graeme Gill wrote:
How popular is the X-Rite DTP20/Pulse ?
Not nearly as popular as the Eye-One, it's closest competitor, but I
think if it had been given time it would've become very popular. Of
course, you must know that the Pulse has been given the death
sentence by the folks at X-Rite/Gretagmacbeth. It's a shame because I
think it's overall a better instrument than the Eye-One.
Is it widely used and loved ?
I tend to see them more with "hobbyists" such as amateur (pro-sumer?)
and professional photographers who dabble in color management. In
prepress environments you'll tend to see the Pulse used for things
such as proof verification but not generally as their primary
"profiling" spectrophotometer.
Personally, I love my Pulse and consider it superior to the Eye-One
in most ways. It's generally faster, more reliable in strip-measuring
mode, can be used un-tethered (I LOVE that feature but it tends to
get overlooked) and generally seems to have the "feel" of higher
quality as compared to the Eye-One. It's only major failing compared
to the Eye-One is that it was a reflective-only instrument (could not
be used on displays). But then again, an Eye-One is not a
particularly good device for displays anyway compared to dedicated
colorimeters.
In a print profiling package, is it an instrument that is a
"must be supported" ?
If it was me, I certainly wouldn't waste any development time/money
trying to write drivers and such to support the Pulse, given the fact
that whatever's out there now is all the Pulse's there'll ever be (as
far as we know). What I WOULD do is simply work on supporting the
different export formats (CGATS?) from ColorPort. With a Pulse, all
you need is the free ColorPort utility to create and measure your own
custom targets and then simply export that data. If you've got
"proprietery" profiling charts you use in your package, make the XML
target definition files available for ColorPort and simply work on
being able to import the resulting CGATS file.
Although I'm not as much a fan of ProfileMaker as I once was, the
direct import of CGATS text files for ANY chart layout was something
they had absolutely right. A person should not be restricted by the
profiling app as to what style, layout or number of patches they
choose to use for building profiles.
Although it's not my workhorse spectro (that'd be the DTP70), I love
the Pulse's versatility. I hated it when X-Rite/GMB decided to kill
it in favor of the more "popular", but not necessarily better, Eye-One.
Just my 10 nanometers worth. :-)
Terry Wyse
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