I1pro calibration base replacement - Page 2

No - when I contacted him yesterday he said he would be shipping it "in the next few days".

Thanks to all about the info on the base plate.

Mine has not shipped yet either. I'll surely get it last as it will have to cross the border.

Mine too.

Hi!

I've also won an auction and my unit has already arrived. Unfortunately I didn't read the description carefully. It didn't include the base unit and I definitely need the unit to calibrate my printers, too

Nevertheless, the diagnostic utility ran fine while doing the white point calibration on a bright white sheet of paper...

Does anyone know if it's possible to get a replacement base? I know it's tight to the main unit but maybe x-rite is keeping a database with the calibration data or is able to re-produce a somehow identical unit.

Or do you think I should rather sell it and try to win an auction with a base unit included?

Damn it ... I should have found this thread a few days earlier...

I sent xrite an inquiry about a replacement base 4 days ago and have not heard back yet. I used the "request support" link on their website. Makes me wonder if I entered my email address wrong. You might give it a try also.

Yes, I did this and they replied quite immediately!
I have to send the entite unit to one of their service centers and they will then "produce" and calibrate a new base unit which will fit my i1.

But they didn't tell me the price. I guess it sounds quite expensive...

Mine arrived yesterday. It's in great shape, looks brand new. Passes all diagnostics.

Wanted to give you a heads up not to bother with the CD. It's very old, and the drivers don't work with Windows7. Download software and drivers here: http://www.xrite.com/product_overvie...upport&ID=1462

I have a question about the i1Diagnostics output. It reports the "spot read" and "dark read" count of 43, lamp burning time of 101.9 seconds, and "scan read" of 0. This would lead me to believe that this unit has barely been used. Is this correct?

If you pursue this further and find out the price, please post back - just to satisfy my curiosity.

Spectro, base and CD. No cable, which was supposed to be included - but I've got plenty, so I'm not going to make an issue of it.

Yep, that one seems to have had very little use, you have under 2 minutes of total lamp reads (my Rev.B has about 16 minutes total).



I have been going through the whole cable/hub issue recently and discovered that even a well built 10' will fail on one of the lamp tests (via both laptop and desktop). I also tried a 16' active extension with no luck. I have the OEM and another 6' that work fine and pass all diagnostics. It sounds like if you use a decent powered hub you can go longer, this is what I will be trying this weekend.

The one thing that may not make a difference here is the internal lamp may not even be used with emissive reads (display calibration) so it may not even matter that it fails that particular test for our use (?).

* Joel answered here http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showp...6&postcount=52 and it appears we do not need to worry about the lamp test fail with a longer usb cable since the lamp is not used for emissive reads. So as long as all other tests pass with a longer cable i1Pro should be good to go.

Best of luck,
Jason

You have to use HCFR 2.1 with the i1Pro (for now) they are still working on fixing it with HCFR 3.

Jason

It's not going to be very accurate down below 30 IRE, the more samples / longer reads will be of benefit with the i1Pro under 30 IRE.

Jason

30% peak luminance is about the limit of the i1Pro assuming peak luminance is in the 30-60 FtL range. The newest model might read fast below 30% but don't trust it.

I haven't had time to use it yet, other than to run the diagnostics. Hopefully this weekend

I have not received mine yet, it is still pending customs clearance.

In case anyone is interested:

On the original thread topic, I just heard from xrite.

A new base is $92.00. The spectro would have to be recertified to calibrate properly using the white tile in the new base, which is $215.00. Not including shipping and any applicable local sales tax of course.

Just as you predicted.

I know what you mean, but believe me when I say it can get better. Most people think their meter is correct until it is measured against a reference spectro on the actual display being calibrated (though this mainly applies to those who only use a colorimeter).

In your case, you're already using a spectro (which means you probably don't need to worry about 30% on upwards) but it doesn't read 10% and 20% correctly on most displays with typical peak white and gamma as the Y values are too low at those grayscale steps. Paired with a D3, you could get great results at the low end. My point being here, many people think their meter is accurate until it checked against a reference. Your case is a bit different since it is a question of low end accuracy on a affordable 10 nm spectro.

That's exactly what I plan to do. Fact is, after profiling, the i1D2 should be more repeatable than the i1pro at 10% and 20%.

Sounds like you did it right!

Is there anyway to create ICC profile using a profiled D2? You can create meter offset using Calman, HCFR, ChromaPure but they can't make ICC profile.
I don't know any ICC profile maker software(3rd party or bundle) that can use offset tables either.