X RITE EYE ONE DISPLAY LT PRO
X RITE EYE ONE DISPLAY LT SOFTWARE

While the printed instructions are cursory in the extreme, the on screen guide provided by the software was all I needed – I’m running this with Snow Leopard 10.6.1. The software, which comes on a CD, installed quickly on my MacPro and for the first pass I used the quick method which does not permit user adjustments of display contrast, brightness and the red, green and blue channels. Before starting profiling, turn off any screen saver to avoid having it kick in part way through the process. A professional quality colorimeter is the answer. Once you migrate to two displays as I have, you will quickly find that any difference in color rendering between the two will drive you up the wall.

X RITE EYE ONE DISPLAY LT PRO

And, finally, the Huey Pro has so many simply awful reviews on Amazon that I decided that life wasn’t worth the aggravation of saving $120 for a compromised device. Three things pointed me to the X-Rite device – one was the excellent review at TFT Central the second was the fact that Martin Evening, whose book on Lightroom I strongly recommend, uses one. My ill fated Monaco Optix and both these two devices are made by the same company – X-Rite – which makes a host of other color measurement and profiling tools. Monitors drift over time so they need to be re-profiled occasionally.Īfter some online research, the decision to get a new colorimeter came down to the Pantone Huey Pro ($80 at Amazon) or the much costlier X-Rite Eye One Display 2 ($201). Since then I have profiled by eye but it’s been a bit of a hit and miss affair, and gets pretty tedious after a while. Further, I have abandoned my 24″ iMac which was on the verge of failure, replacing it with a MacPro and two Dell 2209WA monitors with far better adjustment controls. Whether you like it or not, you will migrate to Lion sooner or later.Ī while back I sold my Monaco Optix screen profiling colorimeter in dismay at its inability to properly profile my iMac’s screen for good color matching with prints from the HP DesignJet 90 large format printer. So if you use a Mac, until you hear that xrite has committed to updating its application for Intel Macs DO NOT BUY this device.

Unless xrite updates its EyeOne software to run on Intel Macs natively, your colorimeter will become useless junk, as the forthcoming version of OS X Lion will no longer support Rosetta, which is required to run the very dated current PPC version of xrite’s software.

– cautionary update: Read the last part of this entry.

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