[Tool] ChromIQ – a macOS and Windows GUI for ArgyllCMS printer profiling (v4.0.0)

[pharmacist]

No unfortunately not: I tried to connect the CR30 wireless, but this is the first time I hear the CR30 connects to BT as well.....but the computer says NOOO

 

[itsab1989]

No unfortunately not: I tried to connect the CR30 wireless, but this is the first time I hear the CR30 connects to BT as well.....but the computer says NOOO

In beta 3 I will include a new tool that will test whether it can find the device via blutooth and creates a report with hopefully useful information so I can implement a general fix for this.

 

[pharmacist]

Despite the CR30 is spot mode only (no strip mode possible), it is still remarkably fast.

About 17 years ago I bought the dreaded SpyderPrint3 Studio and it was not only totally inaccurate (I was never able to get satisfactory printer profiles and terrible purplish blues, probably by the software engine) and that device was spot mode only too, but it was much slower in response and stopped when it could not read a colour patch: the CR30 can scan a 300 patch target easily in about 10 minutes with a steady hand, which is acceptable. Also the Datacolor SpyderPrint devices are not real spectrophotometers but colorimeters: it uses 3 RGB LED's to determine the L*A*B value without any spectral data. The CR30 includes spectral data from 400-700 nm in its measurements, making it much more accurate.

 

[itsab1989]

Despite the CR30 is spot mode only (no strip mode possible), it is still remarkably fast.

About 17 years ago I bought the dreaded SpyderPrint3 Studio and it was not only totally inaccurate (I was never able to get satisfactory printer profiles and terrible purplish blues, probably by the software engine) and that device was spot mode only too, but it was much slower in response and stopped when it could not read a colour patch: the CR30 can scan a 300 patch target easily in about 10 minutes with a steady hand, which is acceptable. Also the Datacolor SpyderPrint devices are not real spectrophotometers but colorimeters: it uses 3 RGB LED's to determine the L*A*B value without any spectral data. The CR30 includes spectral data from 400-700 nm in its measurements, making it much more accurate.

I am really happy to see that you were able to achieve such good results with it. While imolementing it I tried to make a strip reading mode possible as well. In theory it would work but under rapid fire the device can only do around 3 measurements per second. So you would have to move it veeeeeery slowly. Which basically nobody would do

 

[pharmacist]

I am really happy to see that you were able to achieve such good results with it. While imolementing it I tried to make a strip reading mode possible as well. In theory it would work but under rapid fire the device can only do around 3 measurements per second. So you would have to move it veeeeeery slowly. Which basically nobody would do

50 measurements per second is the minimum (Colormunki/i1Studio and the i1Pro1 revision A)

 

[itsab1989]

50 measurements per second is the minimum (Colormunki/i1Studio and the i1Pro1 revision A)

Beta 3 is now out. Under the tool menu the second to last tool is supposed to help with the bluetooth diagnostics - though I can’t even promise that this will work. But maybe you give it a try. In the best case it is supposed to offer a fix for you right away in the end. But keep your expectations low please.

https://github.com/itsab1989/ChromIQ/releases/tag/v4.1.5-beta.3

 

[pharmacist]

Hi Sebastian,

I don't have expecations at all......I was already very surprised you managed to get the CR30 to work with ChromIQ and ArgyllCMS in on one program.....Previously It was very cumbersome to do, now it is so easy to drive the CR30, actually much faster and most importantly much more accurate compared to the SpyderPrint device.

I do my best to test the program when I have some time within my possibilities. Since I have all 4 major spectro's in stock: the CR30, the i1Studio (Colormunki), i1Pro1 and the i1Pro2, I am in the position to check all devices with ChromIQ.

 

[itsab1989]

Although there might be some quirks here and there I am now pretty confident that the app is in a good shape overall and you can get some good profiles out of it with a process that is much easier than using the command line - exactly what I wanted to achieve with this. The CR30 support is more or less a bonus and I am happy that I got this far with it within only 1 day of really owning the device.

Of course your feedback is always welcome! It is hard to keep track of everything since the app became pretty big by now. So everything you spot helps to improve it