dtp-70 lamp - where?
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. Can someone point me to the brand/model of the replacement lamp I need to buy, and/or a source? thanks, Roberto Michelena Infinitek Lima, Peru
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....
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....
Roberto Michelena wrote:
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.
That's true, but some instruments may have sanity checks around the calibration, and may therefore fail if the lamp is too different to what's expected. This is how they detect lamp aging. Graeme Gill.
At least you need lamp. My dtp-70 is perfectly ok except it has a broken plastic lip on the uv filter. Just that little piece of plastic switch. I did not want to send to xrite and pay $600 for just that. I am in US.
Hahaha ... mine broken too. How could they make a nice accurate and $4k instrument and use such a flimsy plastic lever from a throwaway toy. Anyway, I just use the tip of a pointed knife to move the UV filter. -- Roberto On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 4:04 PM, Derek Lambert <csync@colorforest.net> wrote:
At least you need lamp. My dtp-70 is perfectly ok except it has a broken plastic lip on the uv filter. Just that little piece of plastic switch. I did not want to send to xrite and pay $600 for just that. I am in US.
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Derek Lambert
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Graeme Gill
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Roberto Michelena
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Stephen Clark