Datacolor User to User Support Group.

Hi,

I'm hanging around in a hotel lobby waiting for someone, so I thought 
I'd fill in a few more blanks for the curious.

Spyder3Print has a new software GUI, new hardware fit and finish, and 
new name, all to coordinate it better with Spyder3Elite (the monitor 
calibration product). Thats all well and good, but most of you will be 
more interested in new features and functionality. These are really in 
three areas:

The new SpyderGuide ruler: many users have asked for this. Those with 
good reflex time and good vision won't necessarily need the ruler, it 
may actually slow them down. But for those who had difficulty with 
patch reading, it should be a convenient guide.

New L-Star workflow option: For those who like working in L-Star space 
in Photoshop, and want to calibrate their displays to L-Star and 
profile their printers for it, thats now possible. Note that this 
applies to both Spyder3Elite and Spyder3Print (they both have L-Star 
capabilities now).

SpyderProof: this is an improved replacement for our display 
calibration products previous "Before and After" function that allowed 
you to view a test image with and without calibration corrections, and 
PrintFIX PRO's "Print Preview" function for soft and hard proofing 
printer profiles. It now has 16 carefully selected images to cover 
saturated colors, skintones, highlights and shadows, gradients, 
landscapes, and grayscale images that can be zoomed in on for proofing. 
In Elite, this is screenproofing with a "before and after" toggle, in 
Print it allows you to toggle between a standard color view of the 
image, and a softproof to your printer profile, plus the ability to 
print any or all of the images through the profile.

Spyder3Elite has so many hardware and software features and 
improvements I can't begin to cover them here, you'll have to read the 
marketing materials. But I wan't sure that those materials made it 
clear how Spyder3Print related to its predecessory PrintFIX PRO, so I 
thought an overview would be useful.

Oh, one more comment, to reduce confusion: the bundle of Spyder3Elite, 
and Spyder3Print together is called Spyder3Studio, and it comes in a 
very nice metal case with foam cutouts for the devices.



C. David Tobie
Product Technology Manager
ColorVision, Inc.
CDTobie@...
www.colorvision.com

-----Original Message-----
From: CDTobie@...
To: colorvision_group@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 8:28 am
Subject: [colorvision_group] Initial info on the new Spyder3 line or 
products






Hi All,

I'm heading into NYC for PhotoPlus this AM, so communication will be
intermittant for the next several days. I wanted to mention, for any of
you who haven't noticed yet, that news about the Spyder3 product line
is starting to come out, and the show will bring out even more. So go
to www.datacolor.com/spyder3 to find out more, or just google spyder3...

For those of you (most of you!) who own Spyder2 or PrintFIX PRO
products, heres the situation:

Spyder3 is all new hardware, all new software, and not directly related
to Spyder2. So the new software will not work with with Spyder2
hardware.

Spyder3Print, on the other hand, is based on PrintFIX PRO, and while it
will ship with a differently finished spectro, and a SpyderGuide ruler,
its the same basic device. So upgrades to the Spyder3Print software
will be free to PrintFIX PRO owners (and will work with your existing
PFP serial numbers). Keep an eye out for Spyder3Print installers on our
website, they should be up before long. Hope to see some of you at the
Datacolor booth at PhotoPlus this week.

C. David Tobie
Product Technology Manager
ColorVision, Inc.
CDTobie@...
www.colorvision.com
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