Digital BW, The Print

>>I have held off getting an iPad until this one, as the low res put me off.

Yes, they are a bit soft, but that's about to change!

>>So what's the state of play in terms of profiling the iPads ?

The only app that currently does that (insert self-promotion warning here) is SpyderGallery, from Datacolor. Free for the iPad and iPhone. We'll know whether an update for the iPad 3 is necessary on Friday. 

>>Do I need a Spyder for Friday or can I use by i1pro and how good is the
>>profiling and do iPad apps recognize and use profiles?

Gallery only communicates with the Spyder3 and Spyder4 models. The profiling on iPads and iPhones currently makes them match each other quite well, and to emulate a desktop display reasonably well, for those colors the very limited iOS gamut can reach. We'll see on Friday whether that will automatically improve with the larger gamut of the new iPad, or if Apple has done strange things under the hood that will require an update to SpyderGallery to correct. 

Currently, due to sand boxing of apps under iOS, the calibration in SpyderGallery only functions within the viewer app (the Gallery...) in SpyderGallery. We hope to provide an SDK for other apps to use the profile as well, but that hasn't happened yet. There is this thing called "Android" taking up our development time at the moment. ;-)

C. David Tobie
Global Product Technology Manager
Imaging Color Solutions
Datacolor inc. 
cdtobie@...
www.datacolor.com

On Mar 12, 2012, at 8:00 PM, Michael King <drmrking@...> wrote:

> I have held off getting an iPad until this one, as the low res put me off.
> So what's the state of play in terms of profiling the iPads ?
> Do I need a Spyder for Friday or can I use by i1pro and how good is the
> profiling and do iPad apps recognize and use profiles?