Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Xrite
EAN: 7640111921509
Format: CD-ROM
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Label: Xrite
Manufacturer: Xrite
Model: EODLT
Packaged Height: 270 hundredths-inches
Packaged Length: 940 hundredths-inches
Packaged Weight: 80 hundredths-pounds
Packaged Width: 590 hundredths-inches
Platform: Mac OS X
Platform: Windows XP
Publisher: Xrite
Release Date: 2006-01-16
Studio: Xrite
Feature:
- Profile Summary report provides post-calibration analysis
- Software for achieving accurate onscreen color just like the pros
- Calibrates monitor and adjusts color onscreen so images remain true
- Includes compact emission-only colorimeter with sleek lightweight design
- Attaches to LCD and CRT monitors with built-in counterweight and suction cups
Product Description:
Eye-One Display is the next generation for monitor profiling. This easy-to use, powerful solution provides the best monitor profiling and calibration for your images. Why do photographs sometimes not appear onscreen with the vibrancy of the original shot? The fact is, all monitors (yes, both new and old) display color differently. But with Eye-One Display LT, you can achieve accurate onscreen color just like the pros -- without having to become a pro. Eye-One Display LT calibrates your monitor and adjusts the color onscreen, so your images remain true. Simply attach to both LCD and CRT monitors with built-in counterweight and suction cups, and enjoy perfect color every time. Ideal for photographers, creative directors, publishers and designers working in ad agencies and corporations. Easily attaches multiple workstations, with no additional licensing fee Compact colorimeter for emissive color measurements offer same sleek lightweight design as the original Eye-One Display New Enhanced sensor provides; Highest repeatability for consistent calibration and profiling results, fastest measurements for quick profiling, highest sensitivity in dark areas for better control in shadow detail and more neutral gray scale Easily attaches to both LCD and CRT monitors with built-in counterweight and suction cups Profile Summary report provides post-calibration analysis Profiler reminder to ensure true and reliable color over time USB powered Compatible with Mac OS X, and Windows 98, 2000, Me, XP
Customer Reviews:
 Mixed review, 2008-08-21
First, the good part. I have a hopelessly old monitor whose color was completely off and all my prints were coming out greenish. This unit didn't make the monitor good-as-new, but it did bring about a noticeable improvement that I had been unable to produce by tinkering with the controls and Adobe Gamma for hours.
Now the bad part: There is a quick start guide that is, basically, useless. There is no manual or help menu or any sort of guidance provided either in or on the box or in the software cd. If you visit the manufacturer's site, and search for "manual" or "user guide" or any term for that matter, you get "no results".
There are times, during the calibration (especially the manual one), that the process seems to stall, nothing seems to be happening for long periods. There is no guidance as to what you're supposed to be doing and no way of knowing if something is wrong and you should press the "stop" button or not. (The stop button is the only control on the screen other than a scale with green shading that never seems to change).
Once you have completed the process and saved your profile, there is no guidance as to whether you're supposed to leave the unit plugged in w/the ambient top on (for continuous calibration?) or if you can unplug it and put it away until next time. (This is a lid that has the double purpose of protecting the unit and filtering ambient light during the calibration process). There is no way to find an answer to this stupid question on the website.
When you start the program there is a button to click on for updates. By all means, get the update as it is more efficient (but equally uninstructive) than the cd contents. However, it takes rebooting and a couple of tries before the upgrade installs.
I was fortunate that, during an analysis early in the process, my monitor passed the test as one of those that can be calibrated "automatically" (w/o my having to fiddle with contrast and brightness controls on my monitor). Not all monitors qualify. The first time I tried, I didn't know this and the non-automated process is very prone to stalling and leaving you with a blank screen and an equally blank stare.
During my first attempt to calibrate manually (before I realized that I qualified for automatic) the process seemed to stall, windows flashed a message about a corrupted file, then another message that windows was shutting down the program due to a conflict with the system, then a blue screen memory dump, then a diagnostic re-boot. All in all, not a pleasant experience.
Still, I tried again and it worked (or I guessed right) I got what I paid for. This is probably not the best calibrator out there, but it was the best I could afford right now and it did as well as I had hoped within the limitations of an old monitor.
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