X-Rite EODIS3 i1Display Pro

by X-Rite

• Ambient Light Measurement - automatically determine the optimum display luminance for comparing prints to your display
• Ambient Light Smart Control -
• The intensity or amount of ambient light surrounding your workspace affects the way you perceive colors on your display.
• And adjusts your display profile for reduced contrast ratios caused by flare light (or glare) falling on surface of display.
• Ambient Light Measurement - automatically determine the optimum display luminance for comparing prints to yourdisplay

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 2 x 2 x 3 inches ; 9.1 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0055MBQOW
• Item model number: EODIS3
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (63 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
  • #3 in Camera & Photo > Accessories > Light Meters & Accessories > Light Meters
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 14, 2011

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

i1Display Pro

Windows

• Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon XP™ or better CPU
• Windows® XP 32 bit or 64-bit, Windows Vista® 32 or 64-bit, Windows 7® 32 or 64-bit
• Latest service packs installed
• 1GB of available RAM
• 2GB of available hard disk space
• Monitor resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels or higher
• Dual display support requires either 2 video cards or a dual head video card that supports dual video LUTs being loaded
• Powered USB port
• Network adaptor installed and driver loaded
• VD drive or high speed internet connection to download the software
• Internet connection required for software updates
• User must have administrator rights to install, uninstall the application

Macintosh

• Intel® CPU
• Mac OS X 10.5.8, 10.6, or 10.7 [with latest upgrades installed]
• 1GB of available RAM
• 2GB of available hard disk space
• Monitor resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels or higher
• Dual display support requires either 2 video cards or a dual head video card that supports dual video LUTs being loaded
• Powered USB port
• DVD drive or high speed internet connection to download the software
• Internet connection for software updates
• User must have administrator rights to install, uninstall the application

About the i1Display Pro
The i1Display Pro is the ultimate solution for Creative Perfectionists who demand speed, options and flexibility to attain color accuracy. Color Perfectionists know that a calibrated and profiled display is a critical element in an efficient digital workflow. Nobody wants to spend hours at their monitor perfecting images only to find that their display wasn't accurately representing their digital files. What you see on your monitor (or projector) has to match your digital file or you will never be happy with the result, no matter how much time you devote to perfecting it.

In our world, perfection is not too much to ask for. i1Display Pro delivers.

Enhanced features include:

• Technologically advanced and ergonomic multi-functional measurement device
• Next generation i1Profiler software for calibrating and profiling all modern display and projector technologies including LED & Wide Gamut LCDs
• Infinite control of white point, luminance, contrast ratio, gamma and more
• Multiple monitor and workgroup profiling
• Intelligent Iterative Profiling - an adaptive technology that measures and analyzes the color capabilities of each unique display for increased accuracy of profile
• Profile optimization - create unique patch sets for optimal results
• Ambient Light Smart Control - measurement, compensation and ongoing monitoring of ambient lighting conditions
• Flare Correct™ - measurement and compensation of display surface glare
• Automatic Display Control (ADC) adjusts your display's hardware to speed up process and eliminate manual adjustments
• Display quality check and trending over time
• PANTONE spot color optimization

Perfect Color And More Control Than You Ever Thought Possible
Color Perfectionists shouldn't guess when it comes to on-screen color accuracy. The color you see on your monitor or projector is the color you should expect from your printer. Once you take the guesswork and frustration out of calibrating and profiling your displays, you'll save time and money while gaining full creative control over your images.

New State of the Art Instrument for Unrivaled Color Measurement Accuracy i1Display incorporates new technologically advanced filter and optical systems, amazingly fast measurement speed, and unrivaled color accuracy on all modern display technologies including LED & Wide Gamut LCDs. It's also spectrally calibrated, which makes it field upgradeable to support future display technologies.

The ultra-modern ergonomic design incorporates three functions - ambient light measurement, monitor profiling, and projector profiling - into a very sleek, compact and fully integrated device with no parts to misplace.

• Intuitive all-in-one design is very easy to use
• Blazing fast speed - measures 5X faster than previous devices
• Compact and self-contained for maximum portability
• Custom designed RGB filter set provides accurate color measurements
• New optical design allows for high repeatability on the same display and across different display types for more consistent color matching
• Rotatable diffuser arm can be used as a stand for table top projector profiling, ambient light measurement, and as a cover for instrument optics
• Conveniently integrated tripod mount for projector profiling in larger venues

Display Profiling

• Infinite control of white point, luminance, contrast ratio, gamma and more
• Ambient Light Measurement - automatically determine the optimum display luminance for comparing prints to your display, based on a measurement of the lighting conditions where prints will be viewed
• Ambient Light Smart Control - the intensity or amount of ambient light surrounding your workspace affects the way you perceive colors on your display. i1Display Pro can compensate for this effect and provide the option to automatically adjust your profile or simply notify you as ambient light conditions change
• Flare Correct™ measures and adjusts your display profile for reduced contrast ratios caused by flare light (or glare) falling on surface of display. By accurately measuring your effective display contrast ratio, you’ll have an even more accurate display profile
• Intelligent Iterative Profiling, an adaptive technology that produces optimized results for maximum color accuracy on each unique display every time you profile
• 3 patch set sizes - small, medium, or large - allow you to increase your profile accuracy by measuring a higher number of patches
• Profile optimization - create custom patch sets to optimize your profiles by choosing a combination of patch set size, extracted colors from specific images and/or PANTONE spot colors selected from the included PANTONE Color Manager software
• Automatic Display Control (ADC) technology automates the adjustment of your display's hardware (brightness/backlight, contrast, and color temperature) to speed up the profiling process and eliminate manual adjustments
• Workflow Flexibility - advanced user-defined controls support more sophisticated workflows. For example, White Point can be set from predefined values, custom xy values, based on measurement of ambient light, based on measurement of another display, or from previously measured values, etc.
• Multiple Display and Workgroup Matching - re-use profile settings on multiple displays connected to the same computer or to multiple computers within a workgroup
• Before and after images show instant results - using one of our images or your own
• Profile reminder notifies you when it is time to re-profile your display
• Easy to follow on-screen help guides and videos - no extra manuals needed

Projector Profiling

• Quickly and accurately create projector profiles to show your images on the big screen with color confidence
• Intelligent adaptive profiling technology for maximum color accuracy from each unique projector
• Compact device for maximum portability on location
• Diffuser arm adjusts to a stand for table top applications
• Conveniently integrated tripod mount for larger venues

Display QA Workflow

• Visual validation using pre-defined and user defined images
• Measurement based validation using industry standard targets and reference data sets (SWOP, Gracol, Fogra, etc.)
• Measurement based validation using PANTONE color and libraries
• Measurement based validation using colors extracted from user defined images
• User defined PASS/FAIL deltaE tolerance for average and maximum values
• Color accuracy trending over time (per connected display)

i1Profiler Software with "Basic" and "Advanced" Mode Flexibility
The next generation of our top of the line color management software offers the ultimate in flexibility and control. "Basic" mode offers a wizard driven interface with predefined options for the quickest path to professional on-screen color. "Advanced" mode offers user-defined options for more sophisticated profiling workflows to deliver the highest quality color results on monitors and projectors, as well as display testing and quality assurance tools. No matter which mode you use, you'll be able to attain professional color results for a more perfect match between your display and printer.

	ColorMunki Smile	ColorMunki Display	i1Display Pro
	ENTRY LEVEL	ADVANCED LEVEL	PRO LEVEL
Recommended For	Photo and design enthusiasts, gamers and web browsing	Serious & professional photographers and designers	Professional photographers, designers and imaging pros
Proficiency Level	Beginner	Beginner to Intermediate	Intermediate to Advanced
User Experience	Wizard driven ease with good results	Wizard driven ease with professional results	Wizard driven ease and/or user defined with professional results
FEATURES
Monitor Calibration & Profiling	•	•	•
Projector Profiling		•	•
Supports Multiple Displays	•	Display Match feature	Save, share & reuse workflows
X-Rite ADC (Automatic Display Control)		•	•
Ambient Light Measurement		•	•
Ambient Light Correction Over Time		•	•
Monitor Advanced Calibration		Better	Best
Before & After Comparison	Visual pre-defined image	Visual pre-defined & user defined	Visual pre-defined & user defined; Numeric dE, passs/fail tolerances, display trending
Pre-defined Options for Calibration Settings		Luminance, White Point and Tone Response	Luminance, White Point and Tone Response
Advanced & Custom Calibration Settings			Luminance, White Point, Contrast Ratio, Characterization Target, Image Optimization
Pantone Color Optimization			•
Profile Quality Analysis			•
Display Uniformity Test			•

Product Description

About i1Display ProFor imaging professionals who demand the absolute highest quality and require total control and maximum flexibility to control color on their monitors and projectors, i1Display Pro is the perfect solution. Key features include: Technologically advanced i1Display instrument: an all new and ergonomically designed colorimeter with new optical technology and filter set; 5X measurement speed measures more color patches in less time; 3-in-1 functionality - designed to easily switch between display or projector profiling and ambient light capture; Fully updatable for future display technologies; Next generation i1Profiler display and projector profiling software; Infinite control of white point, luminance, contrast ratio, gamma and more; Measurement, compensation and ongoing monitoring of ambient lighting conditions; Multiple monitor and workgroup matching. FlareCorrect for display surface flare measurement and compensation. Intelligent Iterative Profiling to accurately measure the color capabilities of a display. Profile optimization using colors extracted from images or PANTONE Color Libraries. X-Rite's Automatic Display Control (ADC) automatically adjusts display hardware further simplifying the profiling process. Display QA workflow feature provides display quality check and trending over time. Display uniformity test to show white point and luminance uniformity over nine locations on display. PANTONE Spot Color optimization with included PANTONE Color Manager software

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

55 of 61 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Great solution marred by few software issues August 24, 2011

By NutMac VINE™ VOICE

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List of relevant hardware:
- Apple 15.4-inch MacBook Pro MC723LL/A (hi-res antiglare)
- Dell 24-inch UltraSharp U2410
- Apple LED Cinema Display 27-Inch MC007LL/A
- 2007 Apple MacBook

I am a software engineer by trade, a photography enthusiast (Canon DSLR with Aperture) and a home video editor (Canon AVCHD with Final Cut Pro) at nights and weekends. I have been using a borrowed Spyder3Pro (S3P for short), which is a reference for this review.

X-Rite is perhaps the largest name in color matching products. It owns PANTONE and makes some of the most respected products. i1 Display Pro (i1D Pro for short) is its latest offering. The hardware is about the size of a memory card reader and smaller than S3P. Unlike S3P, i1D Pro has only the counterweight, lacking suction cups. The counterweight can be moved along the entire cable run. Counterweight is fine for most computer displays, but unusable when calibrating very large HDTV that some people use as a monitor or for HTPC (you will need to hold i1D Pro with your hand over 2 minute calibration run).

All in all, i1D Pro feels substantial and more high-end than S3P. It has a built-in diffuser to measure ambient light and it is capable of calibrating CRT, LCD (CCFL, variations of LED), and even projectors. It has a flare correction feature to compensate for glossy flat screen displays, such as 27" LED Cinema Display....

iD Pro includes i1Profiler software that runs on both Windows (untested) and Mac (tested on 10.7 Lion). Installation was mostly uneventful (and no reboot required), although it did prompt to me update to 1.1.1 (from 1.1.0) and register and activate the product (it otherwise becomes a 30-day trial demo app). The app resembles Apple's Aperture. Coming from S3P and television calibration experiences, I am pretty familiar with the art of display calibration and profiling. So I found the app to be fairly straightforward. Unlike S3P software, i1Profiler can calibrate luminance level as well.

I used advanced mode to calibrate all 4 displays. First, using the app's white patch measurement feature, I set luminance on my displays to as close to 100 cd/m2 as possible (by tinkering with brightness and/or contrast). 100 cd/m2 is below industry's recommended 120-140 range, but I find 120 to be just too darn bright.

The manual and online help are on the inadequate side, so if you are not familiar with profiling, you may want to visit the support section on X-Rite's website to get additional clarification. On the positive side, aside from selecting backlighting type (CCFL and white LED in my case) and luminance level, default recommended values are all good and should be ideal for all but advanced users with discriminating needs.

2 minutes later, I got ICC profiles with better color saturation, more accurate color, more natural whites, and/or deeper black level than S3P (when looking at before and after for various RAW files). The differences are sometimes subtle, but never worse and generally better. Comparing results to Mac OS X's default ICC profiles is much more dramatic, which tends to be very blue with limited color saturation and contrast level. Mac OS X's calibration mode can yield better results than the default, but still dramatically worse than i1D Pro's profiles.

On multi-monitor setup, dragging i1Profiler app from one display to another will let you calibrate other displays. The app can also measure your monitor for uniformity and color accuracy.

That said, the application did crash few times and UI is a bit unrefined here and there. For instance, all important measure button is often hidden, requiring a scroll down. Help icon next to some controls do not reveal any hints of any kind.

A companion piece is i1Profiler Tray, which can run continuously to remind you to recalibrate and uses i1D Pro to adjust for change in ambient light as needed. I am not a fan of ambience compensation, but it does work much better than Apple's built-in feature.

Also included is PANTONE Color Manager software. Read more ›

35 of 38 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Excellent monitor calibrator, buggy software through! December 7, 2011

By Pete

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I have owned this product for about 2 weeks now and here are my experiences with it. This monitor calibrator is truly fantastic when it comes to its manin purpose - calibrating colors on your monitor - it is extremely accurate and the process is much faster than any other calibrator I've seen out there. I really enjoy the automatic profile adjustment feature based on the current ambient light conditions, kudos to that.

However, my review is 3 star only because the software is really, really buggy on OS X Lion. In order for the ambient light adjustment to work, there is a small utility called iProfiler that runs in the background. This utility (I've downloaded the latest version from X-Rite web site which is v1.2.0) has a memory leak problem - the memory consumption grows from 20 Mb to 800 Mb in less than 24 hrs (monitoring utilizing iStats). I have contacted X-Rite technical support and they are aware of this issue and have recommended turning off this feature. As such I cannot utilize this unit to its full capacity, and I am somewhat disappointed - for the premium price I've paid for this product, I would expect a premium quality software.

24 of 27 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars "Pro" indeed, in good and bad ways August 29, 2011

By Strohmian VINE™ VOICE

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I've been using an olde i1 color calibrator for years, and even though the original maker was swallowed by XRite, they have been supporting the no-longer-sold device until now. No joke, XRite sent me an email about upcoming OSX Lion compatibility of that specific software just last week - six years after my purchase! So when I had the opportunity to review the current flagship model of a company that takes care of its customers, I jumped on the opportunity.

The device is thoughtfully made: Its big lens is protected by a diffuser which swivels off for measuring and also acts as a stand, and there is protective felt so not to scratch your monitor. Definitely an upgrade from the plasticky feel and clip- on protector on my old device! It's a bit odd that the i1Pro goes on the monitor with its narrower edge rather than flat like the others I know of, so you have to make extra sure that it sits flushly. But it's no big deal.

As for documentation: there isn't any, unless you count the little leaflet which tells you to install the software before plugging in the meter. Speaking of the installer, it puts on Pantone software as well by default, without a word about what it does or whether you need it. It's some sort of color management which retails for $40, but not pertinent to monitor calibration. I suppose this is one aspect of a "Pro" package, but at the risk of appearing amateurish, I think a manual - if not a tutorial - would have been in order at this price point.

There were some additional hurdles to get the software to work on my system: on an WinXP machine (I know, not the newest) it would crash upon PC boot, and I had to consult the FAQ and download two updates from XRite's web site.... Also, the generated profiles didn't "take" initially, which caused various uninstalls of drivers, etc. It took me a few hours to sort out that the Intel custom control panel had to go but "XRGamma" had to remain in the Win Startup folder.

The software has an Easy Mode which requires only two things: your monitor's backlight technology (CFL, LED, Wide-Gamut), and your preferred illuminant... yeah, not much help about the latter either, and the default is D65 ("sun at noon") which seemed too blue to me. I eventually went with D55 ("Viewing booth"). The Advanced Mode lets you do more things like ambient light readings, a monitor uniformity test, and flare compensation (for those glossy displays) - those may be a little over the top for a hobbyist, but I can see how this would be beneficial in a small graphic outfit, weeding out lemon monitors and calibrate imaging work stations to a tee. The license is quite open to such a use by the way: all it states is that you have to own the monitors.

The process is FAST. My old colorimeter mucked around for at least 15 minutes, but this one is done after two. And I believe it made a much better profile than the old (cheaper) one: pictures look better from the start now, and the color space is larger when viewed at in Microsoft's color applet.

In short, the i1Display Pro works well. The lack of documentation is shameful and the software isn't perfect yet, BUT I think the i1 pro has a serious edge over cheaper colorimeters in speed and accuracy. Read more ›

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Mandatory Color Management- at a price September 17, 2011

By J. Dassaro VINE™ VOICE

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I am a part-time professional photographer who shoots only RAW (of course), with custom white balance, and in the Adobe RGB color space. Color is imperative to me all the way through the process even though the majority of clients seem to only view images on computer monitor's these days, which of course is a normally horrible method (consumer end) for viewing quality images. Either way, I do not mind spending money for quality color management. In this regard, I still cannot believe how expensive this item is compared to other proven solutions.

I used this product on a Dell U2410 monitor in the Adobe RGB color space in a dual monitor setup. I found the software a little clunky on a Windows 7 system w/ 16 GB of RAM. It could have had something to do with my pre-existing installation of Datacolor's Spyder 3 color calibration system. The manual leaves much to be desired, but that is an ongoing trend among all manufacturers. The lens on the device is among the biggest I have seen. The increased lens size is becoming standard among all manufacturers these days. The easy mode calibration only requires minimal information to achieve calibration whereas the advanced mode incorporates ambient light, flare adjustment, and some other features most people will never use. I will say that compared to my Datacolor, calibration is lightning fast with this device and dead on in terms of accuracy. Datacolor only yields slightly different results which could be owed to the subjectivity of viewing (we all see color differently by the way).

Is this device necessary and/or is it worth paying for? Well, clearly once you get beyond the point and shoot level of photography, color balance (and white balance) should be priorities.... However, most people who do not study a color balanced workflow, will screw up somewhere. One screw up, and your final images could potentially end up worse than when you started (i.e. forgetting to convert from Adobe RGB to SRGB for monitor display). If you decide to go color managed, you are either all in or out; there is no half way. So, if you take the time, color calibration is critical. But, there are cheaper alternatives I would start with. The end difference between this device and a cheaper version (not too cheap) is minimal and barely, if at all, noticed.

But- it is a great color calibrator beyond doubt.

PS- Before installing or using this device DISABLE ALL COLOR MANAGEMENT applications including any System controls such as Intel color management. Also, visit the X-rite website for latest software release and update your graphics card driver if you don't already do that on a regular basis. I would also do a system reboot. Read more ›