On Apr 24, 2015, at 4:44 PM, Andrew Rodney <andrew@digitaldog.net> wrote:
There was a time when GMB/X-rite wrote great software, had a clue how to release it in a timely fashion. Those days are over and have been for awhile.
Once I discovered Argyll, many many moons ago, before the X-Rite acquisition, I never looked back. X-Rite is still making top-notch hardware. Their spectrometers and colorimeters are everything you could want in a graphic arts device, and you're not going to find a better reflectance target for field use than the ColorChecker Passport. Just don't bother unwrapping the CDs that come with their hardware and you'll have no reason to think anything but the best of X-Rite. And, for those who aren't color geeks and who aren't interested in anything other than the default options, their software would seem to be just fine. If somebody starts complaining about color, I wouldn't hesitate to advise buying the suitable model ColorMunki and using it with the default options -- with a caveat to come back to me in the unlikely event that they outgrow the defaults. b&