Andrew Rodney wrote:
Truer words were never said….the only software in recent memory that offered LESS features than the one it replaced.
The one? Give X-rite more credit, two products. With all the reduced functionality in i1P compared to PMP and MonacoProfiler, we get XRD, a bkgnd process that continuously sucks system resources, crashes and causes more issues with connectivity than prior to it's existence. Engineering is working overtime on such 'features'. The stuff we need? Not so much.
Agreed. The few times I use i1Profiler, I've taken to only running it in a virtual machine. That way it only takes seconds to restore the VM to a previously functional state when i1Profiler gets hopelessly corrupt. As an aside, I've found XRDD and i1Profiler to be more stable on Windows than in OSX. Still a resource hog - you can monitor the memory leaks caused by any action up to the point when i1P up and dies. Please don't get me started on the time that i1P v1.5 wastes repeatedly scanning all profiles in system and hot folders, reading their contents, and communicating *something* to X-Rite after each access. On the original topic of scanner profiling, I can't say that i1Profiler has impressed me. Printer profiles combine the best parts of the GMB/X-Rite heritage: Monaco's profiling engine and PMP's ability to handle any target. Scanner profiling goes the opposite way: profiles are all too close to those of PMP5 and targets are limited to a minimal set. There are two decent options. One is to use ArgyllCMS. Profile quality is excellent, as is the price. A drawback is that you will spend half a day swearing at the scanin program, particularly if you use an IT8 variant. Another option is MonacoProfiler, assuming you have a dongle stashed away. It can be used with nearly any target with aid and assistance. Put your Photoshop automation skills to work to reformat the scan image to match one of the supported targets (HCT or Kodak IT8 for transparencies). Alter the reference file accordingly. Just be sure that you preserve the skin tone patches.