Re: Integrity and "bias" [was: Munki Business - Color Business]
Re: Integrity and "bias" [was: Munki Business - Color Business]
- Subject: Re: Integrity and "bias" [was: Munki Business - Color Business]
- From: "edmund ronald" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 01:23:51 +0100
I believ the ColorMunki is a good low-end solution. AFAIK it should be
able to replace the i1Pro which is now basically on life support.
Maybe an extra illuminant is needed for UV/Uv-cut.
On the other side, there are niche high end solutions. I use a
Barbieri LFP for all my own profiles at the moment, because it runs my
own GPL'd Argyll GUI, which gives me the RGB profiles I want, fast and
fuss free. Good RGB profiles are never hard to make if you have enough
patches, and the LFP reads 1400 patches for me in a few minutes. It
can take just about any thickness material -ceramics anyone ? - has a
variable aperture for coarse print, and can take a UV filter and do
transmissive readings!
Of course, Xrite's iSis is still the bee's knees for nice flat sheets
of paper. I've run 4000-patch single-sheet A3 Atkinson targets through
the XL quite frequently when evaluating Argyll and comparing to the
LFP. The iSis XL has not missed a single beat ever since I got the
replacement for the initial transport-damaged unit.
Competition is good. for buyers. Let's hope Xrite see more of it.
Edmund
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 11:45 PM, Marco Ugolini <email@hidden> wrote:
> I am starting to form a suspicion that the Munki may be the "way of the
> future" -- that XRite's drawn-out lack of significant activity on the
> professional side of their work (ProfileMaker, Monaco Profiler, etc.) may
> herald a gradual abandonment of their professional customer base in pursuit
> of the golden goose of a wider mass market -- which, if true, would make it
> necessary for some other (probably small) company to step in and fill the
> demand that is still out there for high-end CM tools, however comparatively
> "small" it may be.
>
> Marco Ugolini
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