old i1Pro upgrade path?

[digitaldog]

Fine as far it goes, but one counts on top-flight software and customer-friendly market behaviour to make it all work for us as a high-end package.

Yes, but you don't have to use X-rite's software with their hardware. It would be great IF the company paid as much attention to software as they do their hardware. I don't use their software for display calibration but rather SpectraView (MUCH better) with X-rite hardware.

[Mark D Segal]

Fair enough - many of us are doing that for displays. For printer profiles do I assume correctly you use X-Rites'?

[digitaldog]

Fair enough - many of us are doing that for displays. For printer profiles do I assume correctly you use X-Rites'?

Yes (and I've been using Copra too). Depending on the output device, one can do a 'better' job than the other even when fed the same spectral data.

[Alan Goldhammer]

Good to know about these possibilities. Nothing like competition to keep the folks on their toes and the market healthy.

Ultimate competitor is already out there and it's free!  ArgyllCMS which many of us use and find no need to support XRite other than the hardware side of the business.

[Mark D Segal]

Ultimate competitor is already out there and it's free!  ArgyllCMS which many of us use and find no need to support XRite other than the hardware side of the business.

Usable on a Mac and user-friendly interface?

[howardm]

Yes

No

It would be great if someone was motivated enough to create a targenGUI ala dispcalGUI.

I think there are a lot of options (command-line) that essentially no one uses so it should be relatively easy
to come up w a set of options even for a command line newbie.

[Alan Goldhammer]

It would be great if someone was motivated enough to create a targenGUI ala dispcalGUI.

I think there are a lot of options (command-line) that essentially no one uses so it should be relatively easy
to come up w a set of options even for a command line newbie.

Display calibration is a lot easier than printer calibration.  It's easy enough to set up the commands in Notepad (Windows) and just past them into the command line and hit enter.  I only have about six standardized things that I use to profile papers but there is always the option to use others as necessary.  To answer Mark's earlier question, it is a challenge to get started but once you are familiar with things it's just as fast as using a GUI application.

[Mark D Segal]

Looks like a very impressive package for open source software, but not compatible with OSX 10.9 and 10.10 according to Graeme's website. Looks to me as if it could become viable competition if someone took-up the challenge of creating a user-friendly GUI for it. For that they would likely need to charge a license fee to cover the cost of the sheer effort that would be involved, but could be worthwhile depending on how much for what. I think it's hard to mainstream command-line software in this era - just the thought of it, even though you may well be right about the factors involved with using it.

[howardm]

I dont see any explicit reference to not running on 10.9/.10 but Graeme is on this board so maybe he'll comment
but I can certainly road-test it on my home MBA (10.10.1)

[Alan Goldhammer]

I dont see any explicit reference to not running on 10.9/.10 but Graeme is on this board so maybe he'll comment
but I can certainly road-test it on my home MBA (10.10.1)

I don't think he has compiled it for the later MacOS.  Of course on can always download the code and compile it for themselves (yet another hurdle to using the software).

[Mark D Segal]

I don't think he has compiled it for the later MacOS.  Of course on can always download the code and compile it for themselves (yet another hurdle to using the software).

Code? Compile? Serious? :-)

[howardm]

I can only say that a very quick just-done test on my MBA indicates that the existing binaries seem to work just fine.  Re-compiling for each version of the OS isn't required as long as Apple doesn't change something mysterious requiring a code fix.

[GWGill]

Looks like a very impressive package for open source software, but not compatible with OSX 10.9 and 10.10 according to Graeme's website.

I'm told it works on 10.9 and 10.10, but I am unable to verify this myself, since I don't have HW that will run those versions of OS X.

For that they would likely need to charge a license fee to cover the cost of the sheer effort that would be involved, but could be worthwhile depending on how much for what.

Yep. See above for just one of the consequences of not charging for it :-( :-(

[StephaneB]

I have an old i1 Photo too. I have stopped using x-rite software with it. Ditto with my i1 Display.

For screen calibration and profiling I use DispcalGUI, which is great GUI over argyllcms.

For print profiling, I use argyllcms in command line. It is not that hard when following tutorials that are on the net.

I find I get much better results that way than with x-rite software.