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Re: Is there a ball park time limit in between calibrations? Spectro that is!

2006-02-28 by John Vitollo

"Kris" wrote:
> I used to use Kodak Colorflow for building profiles, and when the software
> started up it would tell me if it had been over 6 hours, and it wouldn't
> proceed without spectro calibration.  I don't know where they got the 6-hour
> thing, but is a reference point of some kind.  (this was with X-rite dtp-41)


Thanks Kris for the great info.

I'm using a hair drier to dry the targets before reading.

So my new question is regarding spectro drift: 

Can I calibrate the spectro in the morning and read targets all day?

Or do I need to calibrate the spectro more often than every six hours?

Thanks,

John

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