X-Rite EODISSTU i1Display Studio

Subjectively, the accuracy of the results seems good if not better than previous display profiling systems that I've used. The software seems stable and robust but appears a bit rough around the edges in terms of user interface, wording and explanation could be improved. It can be run in an almost totally automated mode, and also set manually if particular or precise setting are required. To my eyes the X-Rite i1Display Pro gives good results, it appears solid and well made and offers good value for the money, I'm very happy with it.

I used this to calibrate a 5K retina display on an iMac. The device worked perfectly. As many know, Apple displays are bright and don't at all represent what a printed photograph will look like. I now use the calibration when editing, and the resulting printed photos now look like what appears on the screen. Easy to learn and easy to use, I think it's an indispensable tool for the serious amateur photographer.

Windows Vista Business 32bit, 2 x NEC 20WGX2 monitors.I bought this to replace my Eye-One Display which developed a case of colour blindness resulting in strong red casts on my displays.The hardware colourimeter is a big improvement over the 'mouse type' puck of the Eye-One DIsplay 2. It sits flatter to screen and the counter balance and the cable are matched well. The Eye-One Display was hard to balance and the puck often twisted away from the screen due to the overly heavy and twisted cable.The new hardware also has a built in ambient light hood and a stand if you want to profile a projector.The Software lets the product down, though. The profiles and calibration are excellent but the installation and operation experience is not good.I installed the software from the enclosed CD successfully but was immediately informed that an update was available. So I downloaded and installed this and ran into problems. The installation kept asking the same question over and over again and after much clicking on the OK button it went through and completed the install. However, now the iProfiler software wouldn't run at all. It produced and error message which on checking the XRITE support web site seems to be a known problem but without a published solution. You're advised to contact customer support.However, I completely uninstalled the software and then re-installed from the downloaded file off the XRITE web site. It loaded and ran successfully.The user interface of the iProfile software is very different from the old Eye-one Match and is not very intuitive. There is virtually no help that's of any use. There are some training videos but these do not replace a manual you can thumb through.You really need some experience of profiling displays to get the best out of this software and the first couple of times around I managed to confuse it to the point that there was no way to continue and no way to kill it short of a re-boot.Once familiar with the user interface it's a good workflow with some useful quality features - some of which still crash the program - like being able to compare your profile with another. When loading a profile to compare the newly created monitor profile with, it crashed and bombed out.All in all a much improved piece of harware, accurate calibration and profiling - which is much quicker than the old device, however flaky software and sadly lacking any meaningful help files are manual.

When it comes to colorometers for monitor calibration - there are a lot of much cheaper ones available and plenty of much more expensive ones too! After watching many reviews of many models I was confident that I didn't want one that took an absolute age to complete the calibration and many of the cheaper ones lay claim to up to a few hours to complete their analysis.This may be in part that of all the makes and models out there - the single abiding rule seems to be that their equipment is often great but their software is utter pants - which is a totally unnaceptable state of affairs, Sadly though it's highly unlikely that anything can be done about that any time soon!I decided ultimately to pay a bit extra and get this model with the added feature of ability to measure ambient light levels and use that in it's analysis.However - as I've touched on - this is the most pain free way to use this model:--Install the program that comes with it on the accompanying DVD-ROM. You'll probably need to reboot your PC . But then crucially just don't bother with their software at all.Install the free program DISPLAY-CAL and run that - Follow the instructions and you will be done in no time.I calibrated two large monitors - each took 10 minutes - profiles got installed with no hassle.Display cal will launch on every boot and apply the calibrated monitor profiles and aside from that task really doesn't use any system resources at all.Windows firewall should get it's rules set when the original software is installed and then you'll probably only need to make sure that your particular choice of anti virus is being too fussy with the program itself.There was always a slight colour discrepency between my two monitors - one producing greys with an ever so tangible hint of blue and the other an ever so tangible hint of yellow. Now thankfully that is gone and grey is grey on both of them! And I found that my brightness was set way too high so that was an unexpected bonus as ulitmately it will mean that the monitors will/should last longer as a result of using less power over the long term.

I have been using this product for several months now and it continues to perform flawlessly. Setup and installation of the calibrator and software was very easy and problem free.Once up and running it is a simple matter to run the calibration routine every month or however often you wish to do so. The changes from factory settings were subtle in my case and photos do seem to 'travel' better across various media, including other people's monitors as a result.An excellent product and very worthy of consideration if you are at all serious about photography.