After reading through all the marketing noise in Xrite's PMA announcements, it's been really hard to understand what/if anything their new products really offer for monitor calibration/profiling?
Their announcements seem to indicate that X-Rite i1DisplayLT and i1Display2 are not much more than re-brandings of the existing Eye-One colorimeter...
Many people's favorite seems like the discontinued Monaco Optix XR.
It's available as the XRite DTP-94 for $225 from (
http://www.integrated-color.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=DTP-94&Category_Code=Display+Calibration)
and from Chromix as the Monaco Optix XR and XR Pro$219 and $279 (
http://www.chromix.com/ColorGear/Shop/productdetail.cxsa?toolid=1086&-session=tx:18C7999D078bb1EA4AroIjE1721F) and
(both offer bundles with the new Color Eyes 2.0 which also looks compelling).
Has anyone done a current look at the field and can recommend what to go with now for monitor-only calibration/profiling (especially if I go with Z3100 which would theoretically take care of the spectrophotometer needs for printing - I don't do much with LCD projector at this time, but might in the next year or so)?
...or should I get a handheld spectrophotometer to manually do monitor, printer, and lcd (and thus also not be forced into the Z3100)?
