With i1Basic Pro you can quickly and easily create custom monitor profiles that ensure the colors you view are true. With the new i1Profiler software, which combines the best features of its predecessors i1Match, ProfileMaker and MonacoPROFILER software, choose between a 'basic', wizard-driven interface, or an 'advanced' user-driven interface to create high quality, precise, custom color profiles.
Highlights
- Achieve true colors on each of your LCD, CRT and laptop monitors
- Capture ambient light conditions to create optimal monitor profiles for viewing color critical work
- Match all monitors in your workgroup with reference profiles
- Select from unlimited gamma, white point and luminance settings
- Optimize gray balance for more neutral and better-defined grays
- Validate monitor performance with included quality control functionality
- Validate printer profile quality by measuring media wedge (IDEAlliance or PSO)
- Capture spot colors from virtually any surface - ideal for creative design, corporate brand requirements or corporate ID photography
- Keep your PANTONE libraries up-to-date, accurate and ready to use in Adobe® and Quark® creative applications with the included PANTONE Color Manager
Unrivaled Color Quality
With the new i1Profiler software, X-Rite has developed a next generation toolset that combines the best features of its predecessors i1Match, ProfileMaker and MonacoPROFILER software. Designed to deliver the highest color quality, i1Profiler incorporates X-Rite’s i1Prism engine, unique iterative profiling technology which delivers the highest quality color results.
New User Interface with built in flexibility at all levels
i1Profiler seamlessly combines the ease of use of the wizard driven interface found in the basic mode, and the flexibility of the menu driven user interface found in the advanced mode. Whether a novice, expert or somewhere in between, i1Profiler easily adapts to any skill level and workflow needs, while maintaining the ability to produce outstanding profile quality results.
PANTONE Color Manager
i1Basic Pro includes the new PANTONE Color Manager color palette creation and swatch bridging software. Commercial photographers will especially appreciate this functionality when shooting products or corporate brand identities that demand a specified color match.
Upgrades
Easily upgrade to i1Publish Upgrade to add complete printer (RGB, CMYK, CMYK + any four) profiling and quality control functionality, as well as digital projector and camera profiling capabilities.
Maintain color accuracy for all your monitors – LCDs, CRTs and laptops.
i1Basic Pro includes:
- i1Pro Spectrophotometer
- i1Profiler Software
- PANTONE Color Manager Software
- Ambient Light Measurement Head
- Monitor Holder
- Monitor Holder [for monitor profiling]
- Spot Color Positioning Target
- Scanning Ruler, Backup Board
- Soft Carrying Case
i1Pro Device
- Industry-standard i1Pro spectrophotometer provides super fast measurements and fluid patch recognition for both emissive (monitors) and reflective (print) profiling
- Use it to profile your monitors, projectors and RGB printers
- Capture both flash and ambient light, as well as spot colors off virtually any surface
- USB powered
- i1Basic Pro is available with or without UV filtration, to match your workflow requirements
i1Profiler Software
The included i1Profiler software features basic and advanced modes for calibrating and profiling your monitors:
- Display true colors on each of your LCD, CRT and laptop monitors in basic or advanced mode
- Create profiles for any ambient light condition for optimal viewing for color critical work
- Unlimited gamma white point and luminance settings including native gamma and measure luminance as target
- Workgroup match utilizing reference profiles to match all monitors
- Gray balance optimization for more neutral and better defined grays, in any lighting condition
- Chromatic adaptation formula for a closer visual match of different monitors (or of different settings on one monitor) with different white points
- Preview before and after results with supplied image or your own
- Monitor Quality Assurance – validate and trend monitor performance
- Profile summary report ideal for post profile analysis
- Automatic Display Calibration (ADC) support for leading industry monitors*
- Profile reminder to ensure true and reliable color over time
PANTONE Color Manager
- Automatically updates all PANTONE Color Libraries - and keeps them up to date
- Uses PANTONE PLUS Color Bridge values
- Builds palettes of best match PANTONE colors that are auto extracted from your own images
- Enables any library or palette, including palettes extracted from images, to be used in i1Profiler spot color optimization of printer Profiles
- Builds ICC profile-based device-specific CMYK recipes for any PANTONE Graphics library
- Simulates and helps you visualize spot vs. 4-color process, including display and print gamut warnings, to make it easy to identify any colors that cannot be properly printed on your target output device or properly displayed on your monitor
- Synchronizes spot color values to design applications
i1Pro Ruler, Accessories and Carry Case
- Every i1Basic Pro ships with an easy to use ruler system making chart measurements extremely fast and easy with just one hand. Use the ruler as a stand-alone or with the included white-surfaced, sturdy, foldable back-up board. Rapid, error-free measurements are a certainty with the i1Pro ruler and the incorporated i1Pro Teflon base for smooth gliding!
- Accessories include a Monitor Holder for accurate monitor profiling, Ambient Light Measurement Head and Spot Color Positioning Target
- As an added feature, your i1Basic Pro comes complete in a water-resistant, non-abrasive canvas carrying case with shock-absorbing foam padding, making storage of your i1 system a snap
Add speed and productivity to your workflow
Whether you add on i1Publish output functionality, or are working with another application, you can increase your productivity with the optional i1iO automated hands-free chart reader. Simply dock your i1Pro device into the i1iO table to measure any substrate up to 10 mm thick!
Or add an i1iSis automated chart reader the for highest output profile productivity – a must have for any imaging professional needing to compensate for OBAs often found in papers.
Software Specifications
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 LUT’s being loaded
- Powered USB port
- DVD drive or high speed internet connect to download the software
- Internet connection for software updates
- User must have Administrator rights to install, uninstall the application
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 LUT’s being loaded
- Powered USB port
- Network adaptor installed and driver loaded
- DVD drive or high speed internet connect to download the software
- Internet connection for software updates
- User must have Administrator rights to install, uninstall the application
LANGUAGE VERSIONS
This product is available in the following languages:
- Chinese (Simplified)
- English
- French
- German
- Italian
- Japanese
- Portuguese
- Spanish
Hardware Specifications
Spectral measurement device, supported measurement modes:
- Reflectance single measurement
- Reflectance scanning measurement with automatic patch detection
- Emission: radiance measurement (monitor measurement)
- Emission: irradiance measurement (light measurement)
Spectral analyzer: Holographic diffraction grating with 128-pixel diode array
Optical resolution: 10nm
Physical sampling interval: 3.5nm
Spectral data: Range: 380 ... 730 nm in 10nm steps
Measurement aperture: 4.5mm diameter
Interface: USB 1.1
Physical dimensions: Length 151mm, width 66mm, height 67mm (6 x 2.6 x 2.6 inches)
Weight: 185g (6.5oz)
Accessories included: Calibration plate, USB cable, monitor holder, positioning target, scanning ruler, and
light measurement head
Measurement geometry: 45°/0° ring illumination optics, DIN 5033
Light source: Gas filled tungsten (Type A)
Physical filters: No or UV cut (Filters not exchangeable)
Inter-instrument agreement: Average DE*94 0.4, max. DE*94 1.0 (Deviation from X-Rite manufacturing standard at 23°C for single measurement mode on 12 BCRA tiles (D50,2°)
Short-term repeatability: DE*94 <= 0.1 (D50,2°), with respect to the mean CIELab value of 10 measurements every 3 seconds on white
Data format: Spectral radiance (mW/nm/m2 /sr); Luminance Y (cd/m2)
Measurement range: 0.2 ... 300 cd/m2
Short-term repeatability: x,y: +/- 0.002 typical (CRT 5000°K, 80 cd/m2)
Type: Cosine-corrected diffuse light measurement head
Diameter: 6.0 mm
Data format: Spectral irradiance (mw/nm/m2), Illuminance Y (lux)
Power supply: Device powered by USB. No additional charger or battery required. USB 1.1 high power device
i1 Ruler: 33.5 cm x 17 cm
i1 Ruler Board: 35.5 cm X 26.5 cm folded/35.5 cm X 40 cm unfolded
i1Basic Pro includes:
i1Pro spectrophotometer (measurement device), ambient light measurement head, monitor holder, positioning target, scanning ruler, backup board, i1Profiler v1.x software for monitors, PANTONE Color Manager and soft-sided storage case.