Datacolor User to User Support Group.

Ed,
A little trick I use to help speed up the scans and insure they are read correctly. I took a 
1/16 thick sheet of lexan and made small "V" grooves that matched the pitch of the 
patches. Now you can just slide the reader along the lexan, the "V" groove locates the 
sensor in the x direction and you don't even have to look at the patches. Just slide the 
lexan from row to row. No strain! The longest time is waiting for the sample to be taken. If 
you'd like some more explination or a pic., let me know.
know.

Ed 

--- In colorvision_group@yahoogroups.com, "ed_limmy" <ed_limmy@...> wrote:
>
> Printed 729 patches on 3 pages last night. Waited 24hrs for them to dry 
> and took measurements.
> 
> It was quite an effort. Luckily for me i got the idea from a reviewer 
> on the net which had a picture of using an additional lamp to light up 
> the area or else it would have been quite difficult to tell if the 
> aperture is correctly on top of the patch. I had to sit on a smaller 
> stool to bring the entire thing up to my face so that I can see whether 
> the unit is correctly placed. gonna try to put some white or silver 
> marking to the aperture to enable better visibility of where the thing 
> is.
> 
> I think it took me not less than 30 minutes or so for all the patches 
> to be read - I didn't take note of the time. 
> 
> Problem - I really don't understand the part where i'm to set the 
> reference white and black controls. What should i be doing to those 
> functions for better softproofing? I have read the help files but 
> couldn't understand it.
> 
> Can someone explain to me how i should be manipulating the reference 
> white and reference black values/functions.
> Thanks.
> 
> Ed.
>