ColorVision PrintFIX PRO Suite (Win/Mac)

by ColorVision

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 11.5 x 9.5 x 4.8 inches ; 2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000EH8MO0
• Item model number: PFP101
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #81,862 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
  • #42 in Software > Video & Music > Digital Video > Compositing & Effects
• Date first available at Amazon.com: April 6, 2006

Product Description

Professional Color Profiling for Displays and RGB Inkjet and Laser Printers

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Color accuracy for the digital photography hobbyist, April 11, 2007

By 

H. Gilligan (Maryland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: ColorVision PrintFIX PRO Suite (Win/Mac) (Personal Computers)

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.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You've Spent The Money on Your Printer and Monitor...Make Sure You Get Your Money's Worth, September 2, 2007

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JF "JF" (Tampa, FL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: ColorVision PrintFIX PRO Suite (Win/Mac) (Personal Computers)

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.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars PrintFIX, November 5, 2006

By 

Ravi Ramlagan "T" (Trinidad) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: ColorVision PrintFIX PRO Suite (Win/Mac) (Personal Computers)

Spyder relatively easy to use. Patches are small and quite close, requiring a bit of patience to read. I've built profiles for my 4x6 Canon dye sub CP510 printer as well as my Canon i960. Both produced excellent results after 2 attempts.