If you’d prefer more monitor calibration control, even a fully-featured i1Display Pro can be had for a little over half the price of an i1Studio, and its software packs more monitor calibration options. The i1Studio’s £449/$489 RRP is in line with its predecessor’s pricing, but this does still make it just over 4x the cost of a basic X-Rite ColorMunki Smile monitor-only calibrator. The i1Studio isn’t exactly an all-new product, but rather a subtle tweak and rebrand of X-Rite’s old ColorMunki Photo. Some other photo-focussed apps can also display ColorTRUE colour profiles, but most apps and iOS itself will retain default colour settings. Only images opened within the ColorTRUE Image Gallery will be displayed with corrected colour. There is a catch though: this doesn’t alter your device’s colour at a system level.
You’ll need to download the ColorTRUE app to use this feature, then you place the i1Studio on your device’s screen and the calibration process works much like it does when calibrating your main monitor. Once you’ve set these – the default values are usually fine if you’re not sure what to go for – the device then scans 118 different colours fired though your screen by the calibration software, with the whole process taking just under five minutes.įinally there’s the iOS smart device calibration. Monitor calibration is a simple procedure, with only essential options to define such as white point and luminance. PerformanceĪlthough the i1Studio is positioned in X-Rite’s enthusiast i1 product family rather than the novice-orientated ColorMunki series, it’s less intimidating to use than a monitor calibrator like X-Rite’s i1Display Pro.
There’s a pulsating status LED on each side, and on one side only is a single large button, which you use for taking spot colour measurements and while scanning colour patch prints during the printer-calibration procedure. X - Rite i1 Display Pro Review INTRODUCTION Hello, Microgamma sent me this liitle and beautifull device to make a test, and you ask me: ' what's that Miguel', and awnser to you, this is the i1 Display Pro from X-Rite i1 Display colorimeter, the parent company of Pantone.
It can automatically calibrate itself, and only then can you continue. In doing so the device’s sensor is then covered. For quality checks, you can use a color target, an image, or a Pantone color swatch.X-Rite’s software requires you to first rotate the dial to this position before you calibrate anything else. The ADC support and compensation for glare can be enabled during calibration. With i1Profiler software, the user enjoys automatic correction (or notification) of luminance levels to changing ambient light at three different time intervals. The software erroneously detected Automatic Display Control (ADC) support on my system. (Apparently, this is done to open up shadows but happens at the cost of overexposing bright areas.) Using the largest patch number in Advanced mode, the calibration and profile were much better-delta-E of less than 4 (in Basic it was less than 6) however, it took more time (10 minutes instead of 4) to finish calibration. Our test in Basic mode resulted in calibration settings that were too bright.
The user can overrule the software’s choice in Advanced mode, which also enables more features, such as quality control, automatic ambient light adjustment, and testing uniformity of your display. The i1Profiler software auto-detects any type of LCD screen or projector in Basic mode. The bottom reveals a tripod thread for calibrating projectors. It has a lens sitting in front of the sensor (like X-Rite’s multi-thousand dollar Hubble system) and a moveable arm that holds the ambient diffuser. The i1Display Pro instrument is faster and with better quality than the i1Display 2 or any other colorimeter in the same price range. The i1Display Pro comes with X-Rite’s new i1Profiler software. In addition to calibrating displays, X-Rite’s i1Display Pro also calibrates projectors, measures ambient light, and corrects for glare (for displays lacking a hood).