Digital BW, The Print

I found the manual for the X-rite 880 on their website, here is a short description of its functions (I quote):
The X-Rite 880 is an automated instrument that will read film control strips, paper control strips, and printer balance
strips. Simply insert strip into unit for motorized, automatic measurements.
The instrument automatically measures many types of control strips (ex., EP2, C41, RA-4, etc.), sorts the data for
measured fields such as: HD, LD, & Stain; and then displays and simultaneously transmits the data to the minilab printer.
The strip formats are broken down into three categories:
· Paper (EP2, RA-4, CP-21, AP-92, R-3, P-3, etc.).
· Film (C-41, KBM, CN-16, etc.).
· Printer Balance (White Ringed Bull's-Eyes, Black Ringed Bull's-Eyes, Cropped Bull's-Eyes, etc.).

I can post more on the unit (condition etc) once I get it; it is on its way.  I live in southern Ontario, Canada, so it will be a week or so before it arrives.  The seller has a 100% positive rating ( after selling 1340 items) in e-bay, and the unit's photo is the same as the picture in the Xrite manual, so I hope everything turns out fine!
Unny


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, C D Tobie <CDTobie@...> wrote:
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> On Apr 30, 2009, at 7:19 AM, robert49brake wrote:
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> > A while back I was looking for a used UV Densitometer and kept  
> > running into cheap densitometers on ebay.  They were mostly 2nd  
> > party branded and had come as OEM equipment included with large  
> > commercial presses.  No documentation, no software, same disclaimer:  
> > powers up fine but unable to test (No Software!)  Never did find out  
> > what they were designed to measure and no idea of what software  
> > might be needed, or cost, just for a simple density measurement and  
> > definitely no profile making software without spending hundreds.
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> ICC profiles cannot be built with a densitometer, at least not the  
> kind the ICC defines, since color values are needed. Densitometers can  
> linearize color ramps, but they can't actually tell what color they  
> are... so densitometers can create channel curves, but not color  
> profiles.
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> C. David Tobie
> Global Product Technology Manager
> Digital Imaging & Home Theater
> CDTobie@...
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