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| ColorVision PrintFIX PRO Suite (Win/Mac) | 
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| Brand: ColorVision
Category: CE
List Price: $649.00
Buy New: $300.83
You Save: $348.17 (54%)
New (4) from $300.83
Avg. Customer Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 17108
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Xp, Mac Os X
Media: CD-ROM
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.6
Dimensions (in): 11.5 x 9.5 x 4.8
MPN: PFP101
Model: PFP101
UPC: 875720000087
EAN: 0875720000087
ASIN: B000EH8MO0
Release Date: March 14, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 You've Spent The Money on Your Printer and Monitor...Make Sure You Get Your Money's Worth September 2, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I've been working with a Dell UltrsSharp 20 inch LCD for the past four years and never realized how far off the color was until now. The Spyder2PRO Professional Monitor Calibration tool and software worked like a charm. To me that was an added bonus.
My primary purpose for purchasing this item was the PrintFIX PRO Spectrocolorimeter and software. I'd purchased an Epson R1800 printer earlier in the year and truly wasn't happy with the prints it churned out. Tried a number of papers and profiles and nothing was quite right. After less than a half hour with PrintFix Pro of building a profile for Epson Premium Luster paper, the prints are spot on perfect.
Rather than installing the software in the box for both components, I downloaded the latest releases from the ColorVision website and everything installed like a charm on my Vista Ultimate 64-bit box. I'd suggest downloading the latest software for any product not just this item.
I used the 225 sample profile and if you shrink the margins on the 8.5 x 11.0 paper, it's no problem to have a profile in 15 minutes or less. I'm looking forward to profiling different papers for my printer and have every expectation that they'll be as true as my first.
I've seen the references to lousy vendor support but I had no need to contact ColorVision. Like most peripherals, following the install instructions is very important and while I've had some that were buggy in a 64-bit environment, PrintFix Pro Suite was perfect.
You've spent all that money on your monitor and printer, PrintFix Pro Suite is money well spent to insuring those products work their best.
What you see is what you print, finally... August 5, 2007
Software and hardware installed easily in my system (Dell). The profiles make my printer (Canon i9900) produce the exact same image on various types of paper. Now I can get what I see on screen on the paper. No more print tweak.
Prints what appears on monitor May 6, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I had pretty good luck loading ColorVision's software for both the Spyder 2Pro and the PrintFIX Pro on my G5 PowerMac -- it was pretty straight-forward, with instructions that are easy to follow. At first, I had a slight problem getting the software to recognize the PrintFix Spectromiter -- it did not work in "Demo" mode -- it works only after typing in the product serial number, and skipping the Demo. Otherwise, I feel confident that these products are providing full control over the print process by setting the gamma levels on the monitor, and developing custom print profiles that are recognized in Photoshop. The instructions are not too elaborate -- but they do include all the critical steps, for example, turning off the existing system setups, and default profiles that will interfere with printing the color patches. Reading the color patches with the Spectro takes a few minutes, but it's worth the time. On calibrating the gamma levels, this too, requires following the not-too-elaborate instructions, to get the system to its default settings, and understanding the light levels within the workspace environment, before moving through the calibration process. It's probably just another one of those products that photographers must have.
 HW is Excellent, SW is Not So Good, Support and Upgrade Paths Horrible April 18, 2007
5 out of 9 found this review helpful
The hardware in this bundle is terrific and works as it should, provided the SW and your system configuration are in working order. However, the company's Web site provides little or no help, and several e-mail queries to their support department have gone unanswered. There doesn't seem to be a clear upgrade path for software, which may suggest that you'd have to buy new HW to get newer SW down the road.
You might think that this product would support calibration of TVs/video monitors. It doesn't. All the required HW comes with this bundle, but the required computer SW and DVD (for generating calibration imagery on the TV screen) are missing. The worst part is you can't buy the SW bundle separately, which would be reasonable. You have to buy the TV calibration product bundle, which includes the (unneeded) colorimeter.
I would agree with other reviewers that the support is very bad (for a $600 product, no less) and pales in comparison to most shareware SW applications. For this reason alone, I would strongly recommend choosing another manufacturer/vendor for a color workflow calibration/profiling solution.
Color accuracy for the digital photography hobbyist April 12, 2007
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
The Colorvision Printfix Pro Suite provides a method to build accurate color profiles for a monitor and printer. The suite includes a colorimeter for measuring the colors of a CRT or LCD monitor, a spectrocolorimeter for measuring the color output of a printer, the Spyder2Pro software for calibrating the monitor and building the ICC monitor profile, and the PrintFIX Pro software for building the printer ICC profile. Use of the PrintFIX product is fairly straightforward but somewhat timeconsuming because every color square on a printed color chart must individually be measured. Nevertheless, this method is the most accurate way of generating a printer profile. The alternate method of using a scanner to measure the color output of a printer is cheaper and easier but less accurate. The product accomplishes what it is advertised to do.
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