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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Colour Management => Topic started by: aaronchan on August 04, 2018, 03:12:12 am

Title: Spectroscan purple of green?
Post by: aaronchan on August 04, 2018, 03:12:12 am

Hi

I’m thinking to buy a spectroscan from eBay. I know it is a super old machine and super slow but I still need it for some specific reason.
Anyway, on eBay, I see some are in purple color and some are in green color. Are they the same or different?

Thanks
Aaron


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Title: Re: Spectroscan purple of green?
Post by: ColourPhil on August 04, 2018, 03:27:16 am

I seem to remember that they were green in late 1990s/early 2000s and changed to purple in the early 2000s.
May have adopted USB then, or did they need a (Keyspan?) converter?
Cheers,
Phil

Title: Re: Spectroscan purple of green?
Post by: digitaldog on August 04, 2018, 08:42:14 am

If memory serves, the purple has a 'built in' dongle for ProfileMaker Pro. The other doesn't.
I don't recall there ever being a unit that supported USB. I drove my though a Keyspan adaptor at the time.

Title: Re: Spectroscan purple of green?
Post by: aaronchan on August 05, 2018, 04:35:23 am

Thanks for both of you


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Title: Re: Spectroscan purple of green?
Post by: Czornyj on August 05, 2018, 07:04:04 am

Quote from: aaronchan on August 04, 2018, 03:12:12 am

Hi

I’m thinking to buy a spectroscan from eBay. I know it is a super old machine and super slow but I still need it for some specific reason.
Anyway, on eBay, I see some are in purple color and some are in green color. Are they the same or different?

Thanks
Aaron


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I have the purple one I don’t use, PM if interested ;)