X-Rite i1Display Pro Calibration Meter $149 after $25 Rebate + Free Shipping

[stratman]

B&H Photo has the i1Display Pro colorimeter, AKA i1Display 3 Pro, for $149 after a $25 rebate. That's about ~$100 off the usual price.

http://slickdeals.net/f/7303328-x-r...ation-meter-149-after-25-rebate-free-shipping

Add meter to cart and the price changes to $174 with free shipping. Fill out $25 rebate after you get the meter (need serial number, receipt of purchase, and UPC)

USA and Canada only.

Thanks Slickdeals!

 

[Roy Sletcher]

B&H Photo has the i1Display Pro colorimeter, AKA i1Display 3 Pro, for $149 after a $25 rebate. That's about ~$100 off the usual price.

http://slickdeals.net/f/7303328-x-r...ation-meter-149-after-25-rebate-free-shipping

Add meter to cart and the price changes to $174 with free shipping. Fill out $25 rebate after you get the meter (need serial number, receipt of purchase, and UPC)

USA and Canada only.

Thanks Slickdeals!

This is the model I use. In my opinion beats Spyder 4 and Colormunki. YMMMV.

I paid over C$250 for mine couple of years ago.

Xrite are not known for their discounted prices. Is it possible an upgrade is on the horizon?

RS

 

[stratman]

Xrite are not known for their discounted prices. Is it possible an upgrade is on the horizon?

Second thing I thought was whether there is a new model coming out soon. I have seen i1Displays on sale in the past but it is a rare event and not usually this steep a discount. At this price point it does not get any better.

 

[3dogs]

Hang on a mo folks........My reading of Xrites' product information on this device suggests to me that this thing only calibrates monitors and laptops what good is that?

A person also has a printer to create pictures, and to make good pictures with your now colour accurate Monitor/ laptop you now have two choices:
a) use OEM ink, paper, and ICC Profiles, forget using your choice in paper, or ink.....you just walked onto the OEM milking machine and saved $100 to do it, but spent $149 getting there. your first refill with OEM ink will gobble it all up.
or
b) go back to a) and keep stepping onto the milking carousel.
And that is exactly where I found myself

Hope my reading is wrong and that by making additional investments you are able to build a "system" that will do all you need and be "better" than the ColorMunki

Before I understood what I was needing to print good images I bought one of these devices way back when, calibrated my monitor and fired up the Canon printer with Canon Matte A4 and printed, and printed. Soon I needed more ink...$29 for 9 ml....well you know how the story goes. For those that don't, I found this forum, started reading and learning. After quitting printing because it was getting to be too expensive, and the results with OEM ink and Paper were VERY average, I bit the bullet and bought a proper printer, a gallon of ink and the refilling bits and pieces.
With help from here refilled and printed on Ilford Matte used Epson profile and again got VERY average results.
Based on a hunch I bought a device that will do Monitor, printer and make profiles......as it happens in my case also a sale opportunity at a PhotoExpo I saw the ColorMunki
it cost me $495.......I got that ALL back in the first few prints....

REMEMBER please, original printer $29 per 9Ml or $257 for an 80 ml cart at that rate.
At that rate I was ahead on the purchase of the 3880, the Refill ink and carts, AND the paper in no time at all. My 80ml carts are costing me 30 cents for ink versus $90 per OEM cart.

All made possible by..........the ColorMunki that made profiles so what I saw on my monitor was what I got from - my choice of paper, and my choice of ink. For what I do the ability to calibrate everything proved to be pivotal

The monitor calibrator now rests in storage.........useless, pointless and just another pointless toy sold by smart marketers...
Cheers

Andrew

 

[stratman]

@3dogs

The i1Display Pro colorimeter can be used for monitors, TV's and projector calibrations depending on the software you utilize. It is not intended to profile printers or cameras, although the included software i1Profiler is capable. A spectrophotometer is needed to access the software's additional features.

Comparing apples to apples, the i1Display Pro and the Colormunki Display are essentially the same but differences are inherit and, IMO, definitely favor the i1Display Pro: http://blog.xritephoto.com/2012/11/colormunki-display-or-i1display-pro/. The devil's in the details.

The Colormunki you discuss, Colormunki Photo?, will do it all. It may not be as robust as a spectrophotometer such as the i1Pro but it is offered at a reasonable, albeit higher than the i1Display Pro's, price point IMO. Decisions, decisions.

To further complicate the discussion for aficionados is that even if you use a spectrophotometer, a colorimeter may still be useful in calibrating displays:

In speaking to some experts in the field what I have discovered is that a spectro is not as sensitive at lower luminance levels as is a colorimeter. This means less accurate profiling of quarter tones and image shadow areas on-screen. So, for those that have a monitor with decent dark tone performance, a colorimeter like the i1Display Pro makes a lot of sense, even if you already own an i1Pro device.

http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/accessories/i1display_pro.shtml (a review of the i1Dislpay Pro)

I will use CalMAN's Enthusiast software with the i1Display Pro for monitor and TV calibration. I do not require printer or camera profiling.

 

[Roy Sletcher]

Hang on a mo folks........My reading of Xrites' product information on this device suggests to me that this thing only calibrates monitors and laptops what good is that?

A person also has a printer to create pictures, and to make good pictures with your now colour accurate Monitor/ laptop you now have two choices:
a) use OEM ink, paper, and ICC Profiles, forget using your choice in paper, or ink.....you just walked onto the OEM milking machine and saved $100 to do it, but spent $149 getting there. your first refill with OEM ink will gobble it all up.
or
b) go back to a) and keep stepping onto the milking carousel.
And that is exactly where I found myself

Hope my reading is wrong and that by making additional investments you are able to build a "system" that will do all you need and be "better" than the ColorMunki

Before I understood what I was needing to print good images I bought one of these devices way back when, calibrated my monitor and fired up the Canon printer with Canon Matte A4 and printed, and printed. Soon I needed more ink...$29 for 9 ml....well you know how the story goes. For those that don't, I found this forum, started reading and learning. After quitting printing because it was getting to be too expensive, and the results with OEM ink and Paper were VERY average, I bit the bullet and bought a proper printer, a gallon of ink and the refilling bits and pieces.
With help from here refilled and printed on Ilford Matte used Epson profile and again got VERY average results.
Based on a hunch I bought a device that will do Monitor, printer and make profiles......as it happens in my case also a sale opportunity at a PhotoExpo I saw the ColorMunki
it cost me $495.......I got that ALL back in the first few prints....

REMEMBER please, original printer $29 per 9Ml or $257 for an 80 ml cart at that rate.
At that rate I was ahead on the purchase of the 3880, the Refill ink and carts, AND the paper in no time at all. My 80ml carts are costing me 30 cents for ink versus $90 per OEM cart.

All made possible by..........the ColorMunki that made profiles so what I saw on my monitor was what I got from - my choice of paper, and my choice of ink. For what I do the ability to calibrate everything proved to be pivotal

The monitor calibrator now rests in storage.........useless, pointless and just another pointless toy sold by smart marketers...
Cheers

Andrew

Correct the i1 Display pro only profiles monitors and projectors which is job one in the colour management chain. In my opinion, and also from published reports, it outperforms the other consumer level products. Certainly on my wide gamut monitor it gives excellent results.

There is no alternative to a hardware monitor calibration. Despite what is written on user forums eyeballing monitor calibration never gives consistent results.

NOTE TO SELF - prepare for the onslaught of "I have worked for 25 years in a colour darkroom, and never needed anything except my two eyes...." comments.

With printer calibration there are alternatives. For example Image Specialists publishes some very accurate profiles for the PC-42 inkset, and it is possible to get excellent results from them. Of course it does limit you paper choices to the selection that have been profiles. Mikling has offered to provide additional profiles if people will send him the printed standard he needs.

I guess it all comes down to the "horses for courses" concept.

RS

 

[3dogs]

" There is no alternative to a hardware monitor calibration. Despite what is written on user forums eyeballing monitor calibration never gives consistent results."

Understand your apprehension, but a valid assertion non the less. perhaps, 25+ years WILL equip a person with 'the taient' but as a battler i believe even that time would not be enough to get ME over that line.
IS is doing a mighty job, its good ink, and having ready made profiles adds imesurably to its cost benefit for a user.

Further, the OP knows what he is doing, so all is well there, my post was aimed at others who may (like i did back then) read into the post that getting the monitor right was the whole solution.........a person could get angry remembering discussing just that with the sales person at the time and being assured that ALL I HAD TO DO WAS SEND IN A COLOUR PATCH AND THE APPROPRIATE PROFILE WOULD BE eMAILED RIGHT BACK.........Yea RIGHT!!!and an invoice for $70 for said profile!!!.

The colormunki photo I use is an entry level device, stripped of Pro featurs. If I had known then, what I know now, I would have bought the best unit with all the bells and whistles : because the cost of ink per sheet is zilch -really, and I have found ways to mitigate the cost I incur on papers by using iGen3, so taking the long view in retrospect, a wiser choice at the time would have been the better unit....@stratman has all his bases covered, I rushed in where Angels fear to tred, and came a cropper!!

You are spot on, folks have vastly different ways/methods of getting to where they need to be. Sadly, the advice i got did not take account of my desire to experiment.

cheers,

Andrew