Digital BW, The Print

Did you acquire it for free? Depends on what you are going to use it  
for, the $50 for the calibration strip is well worth it. You can do  
the "math way" of using your densitometer or get some profiling  
software and start making your own profiles. It will save you time  
and money on paper and ink in the long run.
Mark

On Mar 25, 2006, at 5:22 AM, davidkeasey wrote:

> Does anyone have some expertise with this densitometer?  I just manage
> to acquire one, and though the operation manual was provided, it is
> obvious that this instrument was primarily intended to be mostly a
> "black-box" that was connected to some kind of profiling software.
>
> I have managed to get the toolcrib and X-Key software running, and
> even get data tables stuffed into an Excel spreadsheet (in spite of
> woefully inadiquate instructions there, as well).
>
> The information I am looking for is this:
>
> 1.  How can one obtain an auto-calibration strip without having to pop
> for the $50 that X-Rite wants for this little puppy?  Since I only
> want results that are internally consistent (that is, I don't need to
> match outputs between different devices, or to something done by
> somebody else), the "certified media" provided by x-rite seems to be
> overkill.  Is it possible to simply define your own calibration strip
> (in a program like Corel Draw, for example) then print off a batch of
> them?
>
> 2.  What are the terminal interface commands that are accepted by the
> DTP32, what are the outputs, and how can one work these into (say) an
> excel macro that configures the machine and then reads a strip or set
> of strips?
>
> 3.  Absent an auto-calibration strip, is it possible to calibrate the
> instrument through the command line interface and a standard density
> target set?
>
>
> Any help with this would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Thanks!
> Dave Keasey
>
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