Well, supposedly factory recalibration would be needed for a new white tile, but not for a new lamp... the device calibrates itself (by using the white tile whose reflectance is recorded in the firmware) every time, and that's how it compensates for lamp aging... that's how it would also compensate for lamp change I guess. -- Roberto On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Stephen Clark <hipowershooter@comcast.net> wrote:
On Oct 21, 2011, at 10:44 AM, Roberto Michelena wrote:
Hope someone can help with this. Love my DTP-70 but the lamp is already too old and giving occasional errors. However X-Rite does not sell the spare: flat-fee "send for repair" at $635, which of course is crazy, and if you add on top that I'm not in the US, I'd be paying for a lamp change over $1,000.
I can see your dilemma. Problem is when a lamp gets replaced it usually dictates recalibration too, and a new calibration target for the device.
I have a DTP-41 I've had to send in a couple of times since I purchased it. Now that I' not directly involved in doing profiling any longer I suspect the next time I get it up and running it will tell me that it needs recalibration too....