Pantone ColorVision SpyderPRO Suite with OptiCAL Win/Mac

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Product Features

• Calibrates monitor with highly acclaimed Spyder with OptiCAL
• ProfilerPLUS software--create printer profiles using flatbed scanner
• Match CRT or LCD display color with print color every time
• Essential for designers, photographers, printers, and pre-press people
• OptiCAL site license now included

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B00006JUN4
• Item model number: GPU109
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 30, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #15,240 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer
The color needs of our customers are no longer limited to print or to traditional printing methods. Extending well beyond color palettes in desktop publishing applications, PANTONE software solutions provide monitor calibration, PANTONE colors for business documents, colors optimized for use on the Web, and file preparation for six-color process printing.

Tired of time-consuming, trial and error, monitor-to-printer color proofs? The Spyder Photo Suite PRO bundle calibrates your monitor with the highly acclaimed Spyder with OptiCAL. It also includes ProfilerPLUS software for creating printer profiles using your flatbed scanner. For a fraction of the price of other photo professional calibration systems, you can now calibrate your monitors and printers and match the color you see on your CRT or LCD display with what you see in print every time! A must-have package for designers, photographers, printers, and pre-press people. New! OptiCAL site license now included.

Product Description
Spyder Photo Suite PRO is a monitor calibration and profiling system that teams OptiCAL with the Monitor Spyder, a specially developed monitor measurement device and ProfilerPLUS software for quick, scanner-based profiles. The Spyder with OptiCAL requires virtually no startup time or user training and includes advanced color control tools to measure, calibrate and then create a high quality ICC profile of the monitor in its calibrated state in a few easy steps. For your output solutions there's ProfilerPLUS, a software which calibrates your printer for each of the papers that you want to use. Working entirely as an Adobe Photoshop or Photoshop Elements plug-in, ProfilerPLUS creates RGB or CMYK ICC profiles for inkjet and laser printers. Print the calibration chart, scan it using your flatbed scanner (not included), and create an ICC profile. The result is a "translation" between devices, so that what you scan is what you see, and what you see is what you print.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Confusing to say the least, July 17, 2004

By A Customer

This thing may work, but I couldn't figure out how to use it. It comes with two different software applications that work totally different and it's not clear which one you should follow. Maximum PC said the same thing in their review. If they could get someone to write a decent manual, it may be worth it. Also, when I returned it, Amazon was going to charge me a $100 restocking fee, even though it was sent back exactly as it came. I complained and they backed off.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars ProfilerPLUS not included, September 20, 2004

By	ND fan (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews

Although the Monitor calibration works great (Spyder & OptiCAL), I did not receive the ProfilerPLUS printer profiling software. Instead, the package I received included PhotoCal, which I believe is a subset of OptiCAL. When I brought this to the attention of Amazon, they offered me a 10% credit ($26) to live without ProfilerPlus, an application that Amazon sells separately for $100. I'm not sure if this was just a one-time mistake or an error with this listing, but amazon wasn't much help in clearing this up.