monitor calibration system?

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Jan 26, 2004
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Can anyone recommend a good monitor calibration system?

I work in a small digital imaging firm and we’re having trouble maintaining color consistency with our six Mac-G4 / OS10 / Mitsubishi monitor systems. Up until now we’ve used an Eye One system (hardware and software), but it’s ready for replacement. What’s the best?

Thanks.

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Tin Ear
Jan 26, 2004
"technician" wrote in message
Can anyone recommend a good monitor calibration system?

I work in a small digital imaging firm and we’re having trouble
maintaining
color consistency with our six Mac-G4 / OS10 / Mitsubishi monitor systems. Up until now we’ve used an Eye One system (hardware and software), but
it’s
ready for replacement. What’s the best?

Thanks.

I have not been in the field as long as others, but the only one I know of is from LaCie. Watch for line wrap in the link:

http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?id=10036

This is for their BlueEye Vision. There are PDFs with a datasheet and manual at that link. Drop a line back if you know of any others.
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Flycaster
Jan 27, 2004
"technician" wrote in message
Can anyone recommend a good monitor calibration system?

I work in a small digital imaging firm and we’re having trouble
maintaining
color consistency with our six Mac-G4 / OS10 / Mitsubishi monitor systems. Up until now we’ve used an Eye One system (hardware and software), but
it’s
ready for replacement. What’s the best?

Well, Eye-One is still right up at the top. But…photospectrometers and software don’t generally "wear out" very fast ~ OTOH, the monitors do. How old are your monitors, and what’s wrong with the Eye-One?

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technician
Jan 27, 2004
Our Eye-One is about three years old, but the photospectrometer has been pretty roughly treated. It’s been dropped several times, and who knows what? Our monitors are between one and three years old and are in use sixteen hours a day, five days a week.

It’s difficult to say specifically what’s wrong with our Eye-One. We used to have a lot of failures during the calibration, but that was solved by a new USB cable for the photospectrometer. In general, we just lack confidence in it after comparing the same images on different editing systems and noticing some color variation between supposedly calibrated monitors. Our company would be able to buy a new calibrator, but we don’t stand a chance of getting new monitors.

So far the feed-back I’m getting from the discussion groups has been extremely helpful. Thank you everyone for your thoughts and ideas on this matter.

"Flycaster" wrote in message
"technician" wrote in message
Can anyone recommend a good monitor calibration system?

I work in a small digital imaging firm and we’re having trouble
maintaining
color consistency with our six Mac-G4 / OS10 / Mitsubishi monitor
systems.
Up until now we’ve used an Eye One system (hardware and software), but
it’s
ready for replacement. What’s the best?

Well, Eye-One is still right up at the top. But…photospectrometers and software don’t generally "wear out" very fast ~ OTOH, the monitors do.
How
old are your monitors, and what’s wrong with the Eye-One?

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Flycaster
Jan 27, 2004
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Our Eye-One is about three years old, but the photospectrometer has been pretty roughly treated. It’s been dropped several times, and who knows what?

Ouch. Yeah, they don’t understand that kind of treatment.

Our monitors are between one and three years old and are in use sixteen hours a day, five days a week.

Both of my service bureaus replace their LaCie’s and.or Mitsus every 2 years. I personally get about 3 years out of one, but it is not on 16 hours a day either. At the end of their duty cycle, they are *very* difficult to accurately calibrate since you can’t get high enough total luminescence out of them (usually the red gun goes first.) The resulting color ramps look pretty ugly. (Depending on which version of Eye-Match software you use, it should tell you if the monitors are out of spec.)

It’s difficult to say specifically what’s wrong with our Eye-One. We used to have a lot of failures during the calibration, but that was solved by a new USB cable for the photospectrometer.

Sounds to me like the photospectrometer is OK if a new USB cable fixed the problem. Or am I missing something?

In general, we just lack
confidence in it after comparing the same images on different editing systems and noticing some color variation between supposedly calibrated monitors. Our company would be able to buy a new calibrator, but we don’t stand a chance of getting new monitors.

My recommendation is this: before you spend a hunk of change replacing something that might be perfectly AOK, beg, borrow, or steal a new monitor and use your Eye-One to calibrate it for your system. That way you’ll know for sure what the problem is….or are.

Our company would be able to buy a new calibrator, but we don’t stand a chance of getting new monitors.

I know, I know. They cost real money, but without the right tools in working condition, you can’t *make* any money.

Good luck (and I hope you don’t need a bunch of new monitors).

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