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?faulty spectro

2008-03-19 by Tim Mimpriss

I have had some trouble with Spyder3Print on a new Mac Mini running 
Leopard. The OS could see the sensor, but not S3P. Support Europe 
suggested installing the latest version, but I already have 3.0.1 as 
indicated in my support ticket, and I can find nothing laterer.

Today it works! I measured a chart I had printed earlier only to find 
that the profiled image had unpleasant crossovers in the grayscale 
whereas the unprofiled image was fairly good on colour, but the 
grayscale ramp was off: a really big jump between 90K and 100K.

I then wondered whether the spectro could be faulty. After cleaning the 
white pad and re-calibrating, I made some measurements off a Macbeth 
ColorChecker. Here are some results:

Lab    a    b
White    0.06    3.16
Red    59    29
Green    -39    32
Blue    15    -51

All of these readings seem to be somewhat off target, but the blue 
especially so. Do I have a faulty spectro, or is there something I have 
missed?

Tim Mimpriss

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