I just bought the i1 photo pro last week and have been a busy beaver.
Having watched all the videos and read the quick start guide...I still did not know how to read the patches with the spectro and the fancy ruler tray....uggh
I have read on the forums that one of the negatives of the system were all the read errors associated with the spectro and ruler. Which is what my experience was at first.
I thought I would share what I have learned so far.
Read Errors...
are a thing of the past once you get some technique down.
Its very easy.
I will explain and you will be an expert right away:
The first thing I noticed was that annoying beeping going on all the time!!!
I muted my machine....BIG MISTAKE!
The first beep comes right after you press the spectro to start the sweep....do not move the spectro until you here the beep. It is telling you it is ready to go....start earlier and you cross that first black/white dividing line and you get:
"I'm sorry I only read 14 patches and there was 15...."....$#@*
you get another beep when you let go of the button, telling you that it has stopped reading...time to move the tray.
Another time saver I realized after a while is that the Specrto can read in BOTH directions...there are white and black line dividing the patches I suspect it reads when you start...
Hugh time saver.
I have done 3 profiles so far...I just read 5 pages with 2016 patches in just under 13 minuets with no read errors.
the beeps sure are annoying but they serve a purpose...and the profiles are pretty sweet.