The new X-Rite i1 Pro 2 – hands-on review

My two i1 Pros have done me proud over the years. I’ve taken them with me on countless jobs across the UK and Europe and they’ve never failed me once. The X-Rite i1 Pro has deserved its reputation as the industry standard general purpose spectrophotometer. Mine have measured surfaces they were never designed for such [...]

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Getting your cables in a twist

For those of us who’ve been working with and installing monitors for many years it’s a pretty easy job to set up any of the monitors that we sell. However, for many who aren’t so experienced plugging-in some of the highly specified monitors we supply can end with a confusion of cables and not quite [...]

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The new X-Rite i1 Pro 2 – Video introduction

Today, X-Rite have announced the launch and immediate availability of their new i1 Pro 2 spectrophotometer. Several versions are available: i1 Basic Pro 2, i1 Photo Pro 2 and i1 Publish Pro 2, as well as offers on upgrades for users who have not yet invested in the new i1 Profiler software. We’ll be putting [...]

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Quato – Quality through and through

We’ve been a reseller for Quato for a few years now, but we’ve never sold many of their displays and yesterday I was reminded why that’s a real shame. An interior design company in Chelsea had contacted us asking for a Quato display so they could match the set up in their Milan office. They [...]

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Five Reasons not to use Laptops for Photo Editing

During the recent Focus On Imaging show at the NEC, Birmingham many customers came up to me saying that they had a laptop but weren’t happy with the quality of the images on screen and either asking if calibrators like the i1 Display Pro would help or wanting to buy an additional desktop monitor, such [...]

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Our Biggest Colour Management Project Yet!

This week saw the start of our biggest colour management project to date. I can’t be too specific as some of the details are still commercially sensitive, and I can’t reveal the customer, but working in conjunction with one of our regular partner companies we are involved in a project to revolutionise the proofing of [...]

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