Re: Any comments or feedback on i!Publish?
Re: Any comments or feedback on i!Publish?
- Subject: Re: Any comments or feedback on i!Publish?
- From: MARK SEGAL <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 16:24:22 -0700 (PDT)
Thanks Lou; most interesting, and I'll be interested to see what you come up
with for printer profiling, which is my main interest in this; I use BasicColor
for my display with its own customized colorimeter (NEC PA271W) and it's
satisfactory.
I'm extremely reluctant to buy any software that doesn't allow me to demo ALL
its capabilities thoroughly and completely. They can put a seven day life on
it, that's fine; but to market expensive stuff like this that one can"t even
test properly for oneself, as far as I'm concerned, is a non-starter.
Mark
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From: Louis Dina <email@hidden>
To: email@hidden
Sent: Wed, May 18, 2011 6:08:21 PM
Subject: Re: Any comments or feedback on i!Publish?
I have a few preliminary observations after playing with the interface of
i1Publish (I downloaded and ran in demo mode, v1.0). I think the interface
might actually be pretty nice after one gets used to it. I wanted to get a
feel for the program and see what features were available and/or missing
that are in some of the legacy programs.
I'll comment on the monitor profiling module, since the demo version
actually let me build, save and load a profile on my Mac. First, I was
disappointed that there is no ability to set a target black luminance (at
least that I could find). The black luminance is critical to a good monitor
to print match and has been available in other software for years (Color
Eyes, and I think BasicColor too).
I have ProfileMaker and i1Match software loaded on my computer. Both of
those programs give me very similar results in terms of monitor profile
quality, luminance, etc. Here's what threw me.....I used i1Publish to build
a monitor profile and it instructed me to crank the backlight of my LCD
monitor WAY UP (exact same target settings as I used both PMP and
i1Match....5500K, 2.2gamma, 80 cd/m2). The resulting profile gave me a
display that was a LOT brighter than both the other programs (all three are
Xrite programs, of course). Maybe it's because it is a demo version? I'm not
exactly new to this stuff. I don't think I did anything wrong, but I decided
to repeat the process in all three software packages to be sure. I got the
same results. Competing LUT loaders perhaps? Any ideas? I'd expect subtle
differences, but this ain't subtle.
i1Match gives me a nice report immediately after the profile is built, with
target and actual values for white and black luminance, gamma, color temp,
etc. I didn't see any such info available from i1Publish.
I haven't built any printer profiles yet, and am not even sure it will let
me build and save a profile in demo version. I mainly wanted to look at the
available bells and whistles.
BTW, thanks for all the responses to my initial query. Hot topic!
Lou Dina
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