Re: X-Rite ColorMunki review
Re: X-Rite ColorMunki review
- Subject: Re: X-Rite ColorMunki review
- From: Andrew Rodney <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:29:19 -0600
- Thread-topic: X-Rite ColorMunki review
On 3/18/08 9:10 AM, "email@hidden" wrote:
> Aparently you aren't keeping abreast of products in this area, Andrew.
> PrintFIX PRO is no longer being sold. Spyder3Print, on the other hand, is sold
> to
> people with a concern about correcting for the nonlinearities of their
> printers,
> most of them building 500 to 1000 patch profiles, and many of them tweaking
> and adjusting those profiles for the output they desire. The only 'world of
> hurt' that Spyder3Print and Spyder3Studio are in, is difficulty in producing
> them
> fast enough to meet demand.
Fair enough, then that product is in a world of hurt based on the price
point and capabilities of the colormunki IMHO. We've got a device that
measures in strip mode, a mere 50-100 patches, providing true spectral data
with the capabilities of the X-Rite and GMB color engine capabilities in a
single package that also reads ambient and strobe. If there's a product that
may also be in trouble, its the older EyeOne Pro Spectrophotometer, although
you can update that into a very nice i1 i0.
500 patches David? Measured one at a time? No thanks.
> And I
> find the newer inkjet printers with secondary ink colors in addition to the
> primaries, require even more patches than models with fewer ink colors, as the
> extra inks add more gamut, but at the cost of less linear output, requiring
> more
> sampling to control.
Well if an R1900 with gloss inks, a 3800 and 4800 fall into that camp, you
may just change your mind about this once you get your hands on the
colormunki. I didn't see any quality differences on those printers between
50 or 100 patches. The secondary process (the additional 50 patches) are
based on the first 50 measured data. In an older beta, that was an option
and only 50 patches worked great.
Your color engine may need more patches is probably what you mean <g>.
Andrew Rodney
http://www.digitaldog.net/
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