The Spyder 2 has a new home. On Mar 21, 2012, at 8:33 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote:
> I finally had to purchase office 2011 for Mac. Too many problems with > comments, hyperlinks and other peripheral items with an older version that > relied on a conversion utility to read dock files. Since it's my livelihood, > I decided not to experiment with open office or other alternatives. So that > opened the way for an upgrade to opsys 10.7, Lion. Good enough. Except that > obsoleted my trusty Spider 2 Express calibration tool, which has kept my > monitors palette right in sync with my printers for years. Seems it only > works on Macs with 10.6 and earlier. > > Since I had so much good luck with that product, i purchased Spier Pro 4 from > B&H for $169. It nailed the color palette, and since it also sets luminance, > I didn't have to do the fiddly workaround to set the brightness that I > previously employed. What's more, it will calibrate a second monitor, so my > Apple Cinema Display 21 now matches the iMac 27. Not absolutely necessary, > since I use it mainly for tools and function windows with PhotoShop, but a > nice convenience. I'm pleased. > > That brings us back to the Spider 2 Express. As I said, it does a good job on > color calibration, at least it did on all my Macs. I think it works on all > PCs, but not sure about that. It's free to anyone in the U.S. who wants to > pay postage. Hate to discriminate against those in other places, but you > probably don't want to fool around with potential custom problems and postage > that almost exceeds the worth of the item. > > Paul > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
