Wished I knew what types or formatting makes the ColorSync server unhappy ! New trial… They are good instruments, and scanning a 729 patches chart with it was quick (at the time) but required a steady hand. Mine still yields precise measurements after over ten years of usage. I have not used it much though, just for producing my own printers profiles, which were very good even with the metameric inks. Mine is even the pre-USB model and I have to use the Keyspan adapter. Still works! ... touch wood. Graeme, no worries as far as I am concerned. I have to keep a Snow Leopard setting anyway and the thing works (well, most of the time) with Rosetta. Paul Schilliger

From: Ernst Dinkla

It is no longer in the catalog of Avantes and the last time it was available must be more than two years ago. A friend then tried to get a recalibration done and they sold him a new one at a lower price than they initially asked. I do not think there is a wide user base left. In a sense the Xenon lamp etc with continuous spectral output into UV gave it better specs than even the latest X-rite Eye1 models. The electronic circuits inside are however more than a decade old in design not to mention the Xenon flash capacitors that age. My SpectroCam went belly up 3 years ago; unreliable measurements.

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Avantes has a wide range of scientific spectrometers, another market.

-- Met vriendelijke groet, Ernst Dinkla

http://www.pigment-print.com/spectralplots/spectrumviz_1.htm December 2012: 500+ inkjet media paper white spectral plots. From: Graeme Gill Paul Schilliger wrote: Some of you pointed Argyll Open Source calibration software, that supports an array of devices. Would you know if something Intel OS-X native exists, that would support the Avantes Spectrocam UV for measuring patches ?

Sorry, there's no Spectrocam support. Are they still available ?

[It's a lot of work to add such support, and I'd rather spend it on newer devices.]

Graeme Gill.