Mike as a Gretag reseller I'll try answer the questions you raise. 6/6/03 11:48 am Mike Russell <mouseinthehouse-at-waitrose.com> wrote
>At 6:14 am -0400 6/6/03, ellie wrote: > >>I'm sure many of us do, me among them. What did you want to know, in >>particular? > >Basically its accuracy and its ease of use. Having downloaded the >brochure I'm surprised by how little it explains. iOne Photo's very easy to use [Ellie comments about the lack of a manual with profilemaker pro, there is one on PDF if you can get it, but it's still very difficult to learn, iOne Photo is built to get around this and make basic profiles easily.] Statements as to accuracy can be found at Gretags site I think, I find it's very repeatable with a steady hand. Seems it's the basically same head mechanism as the very high end Spectrolino. > >So the same piece of hardware is used for monitor calibration and >reading patches, yes >and it does the latter automatically? you slide it along a special ruler, much more intuitive than it sounds, I still use mine on site sometimes [easy to carry] >Or is it a >move and click over 1000 patches solution? no way but the iOne device CAN sample individual patches with the free iOne share. http://www.i1color.com/freeware/ There are some excellent demo movies on the Gretag site about how it all works. http://www.i1color.com/knowledge/training_modules.asp > >And the Eye-One Match software - is that a sort of ProfileMaker >Lite, or some different thing altogether? that's a good description misses some features as you'd expect. I'd say anyone who wants nice screen calibration and the ability to make good printer profiles [and learn a lot about colour management] would find iOne Photo well worthwhile. Perhaps, for the ultimate profile - or for a difficult paper, it might be worth reading testcharts with the iOne and sending the files to a Profilemaker Pro owner for that last bit of superior processing. If you sent datafiles to me I'd make a cut price profile since reading the charts takes me an age. Best of both worlds? Regards, NeilB. Apple Solutions Expert colourmanagement.net :: Consulting in Imaging & Colour Management custom scanner and printer profiles, training on Imacon Scanning supply Gretag + eyeOne, ColorSoloutions basICColor : Display etc. XRite www.colourmanagement.net/ :: www.apple.com/uk/creative/neilbarstow/ =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
