"technician" wrote in message
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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