Xrite i1 Photo Pro 2

The X-Rite i1Photo Pro 2 is the perfect solution for a professional photographer who wants to profile their display and inkjet. The X-Rite i1Photo Pro 2 quickly and easily creates custom scanner, camera, monitor, projector and RGB printer profiles, ensuring the colours you capture, view and print are true. The X-Rite i1Photo Pro 2 is very easy to use but incredibly accurate.

Key Features

The i1Photo Pro 2 is ideal for the discerning photo professionalʼs unique colour workflow needs and includes: 

• The extraordinary new i1Pro 2 Spectrophotometer
• The latest release of i1Profiler Software
• ColorChecker Camera Calibration and ColorChecker Classic Target [mini[
• PANTONE Color Manager Software
• ColorChecker Proof Target
• All-new, more robust i1 accessories: Ambient Light Measurement Head, Monitor Holder, Scanning Ruler, Backup Board, Spot Color Positioning Target, Soft Carrying Case

Ideal For: Pro and serious mateur photographers.

Why buy your Colour Management Solutions from Native Digital?  We've been selling colour management solutions since 2005 and have a wealth of knowledge and experience. We specialise in high-end monitors and colour calibration equipment for professional users and can advise you on the right equipment to use, and importantly, how to use it. As well as pre-sales advice, we're happy to talk to customers and provide post-sales advice and support as required via the phone, email or our remote support facility.

Don't forget that our news / support / blog website regularly features colour management articles along with hints, tips and views on calibration and profiling. You can visit the site here: http://nativedigital.co.uk/site/blog

If you are new to colour management you can download our PDF book Practical Colour Management from here. 

i1Photo Pro 2 offers the most accurate and consistent colour calibration and profiling from capture to view to print. i1Photo Pro 2 combines world-class hardware and software  to deliver the ultimate professional level colour management for photo pros. 

• NEW i1Pro 2 Spectrophotometer. The most accurate and forward thinking profiling device available today – bringing a new level of accuracy, reliability, versatility and ease of use, it delivers an expanded professional-level feature set  – including multiple measurement capabilities to correct for paper optical brighteners often found in photo papers.

• i1Profiler Software for Monitors and Projectors. The latest release of i1Profiler software features basic and advanced modes for professionally calibrated and profiled monitors and projectors, including new presets for video production workflows.  Also includes display and printer quality assurance functions.

• ColorChecker Camera Calibration Software and Target for producing custom camera profiles that work exceptionally well for Raw workflows, even in unusual artificial light sources. 

• PANTONE® Colour Manager.  Easily capture and manage spot colours, and keep your PANTONElibraries up to date with this colour palette creation and swatch bridging software.

There’s never been a better time to invest in an i1Photo Pro 2 solution because we redesigned everything to maximize your profitability, efficiency and accuracy. The new i1Photo Pro 2 is easier to use, more versatile, accurate, reliable and affordable than ever before, making this a must-have product for Color Perfectionists.

You demanded perfection. We delivered it.

i1PRO 2 DEVICE

The most accurate, versatile and reliable profiling device available today

Built upon the success of X-Rite’s i1Pro spectrophotometer as the de facto industry standard for more than a decade, i1Pro 2 features the next generation of our industry-leading technology delivering increased accuracy, ease of use and an expanded professional-level feature set. 

Highlights:

• New illuminant design allows for 3 standard measurement conditions (ISO 13655 M0: Tungsten; ISO 13655 M1: D50; ISO 13655 M2: UV Cut) plus Optical Brightener Compensation (OBC) without changing filters or needing a second instrument and ensures your investment well into the future.

• Enhanced Optical Brightener Compensation allows for the most accurate profiling for today’s enhanced range of substrates. Now photographers can predict what colours printed on optically brightened paper will look like underboth standard and specific light conditions using a single hand-held device.

• Positioning Detection Sensor provides a more robust scanning experience even on special substrates and low-resolution printers. It allows for the measurement of smaller patch sizes (as low as 7mm) in manual mode saving time and money on consumables and enabling dual measurement workflows for OBC, M1 and M2.

• New Status LED guides users through the measurement process and provides feedback on device status, improving the user experience and saving time.

• New Design Ergonomics throughout allows for greater usability, flexibility, cleaning, protection, and storage of the precision i1Pro 2 device, assuring the highest level of reliability and productivity.

• Better temperature stability and higher brightness levels improve emissive measurement, resulting in the best possible calibration and profiling of monitors and projectors.

• All new diagnostics and self-correction features Built-in wavelength calibration technology allows for self-diagnosis of optical grating in relation to sensor during white calibration (with automatic correction and notifications) eliminating worry about your device’s measurement accuracy.

• Maintaining and protecting the device (and investment) is easier than ever Self-cleanable aperture protection glass and calibration white tile cover provides additional built-in protection from dust and dirt keeping your device working at top performance at all times.

• XRGA equipped i1Pro 2 is equipped with the X-Rite Graphic Arts Standard (XRGA) to make it quicker and easier for companies and professionals involved in digital production printing to adhere to ISO standards and have confidence that data sent or received from all links in the supply chain is reliable and repeatable.  

i1PROFILER SOFTWARE

i1Profiler, based upon X-Rite’s i1Prism colour engine, offers an unprecedented level of flexibility and features a number of unique colour management capabilities adding power and control in creating professional quality profiles. You can choose between a ‘basic’, wizard-driven interface; or an ‘advanced’, user-driven interface to create high quality, precise, custom colour profiles for monitors and projectors.

i1Profiler unique capabilities include:

• Create highest quality professional colour profiles for monitors and projectors
• Optimize profiles based on ambient light
• Quality assurance for soft proofing on monitors and verifying output quality on printers

i1Profiler specific capabilities include:

Monitor

• Utilize presets for video production workflows
• Create profiles for any ambient light condition for optimal viewing of colour critical work 
• Unlimited gamma, white point, and luminance settings (also measure other displays or light sources and use as targets) 
• Workgroup match utilizing reference profiles to match all monitors 
• Grey balance optimization for more neutral and better defined greys, 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 
• X-Rite’s Automatic Display Calibration (ADC) to automatically control and adjust display hardware settings 

Digital Projector

• Build an accurate on-screen profile in just a few minutes – just as easy as building a monitor profile
• Takes room conditions into consideration when creating profile – projected colours, screen colour and room lighting

RGB Printer

• Intelligent iterative profiling technology ensures your output is reproduced accurately from print to print and printer to printer
• Unmatched quality for smoothness, highlight and shadow detail
• Utilize Optical Brightener Compensation (OBC) functionality to account for paper optical brighteners
• Optimize profiles based on your images for specific colours, black & white, or flesh tones, PANTONE libraries and captured spot colours 
• Supports high patch count test charts for the most accurate printer profiles – ideal for fine art printing and proofing
• Choose from standard test charts or easily build your own to meet your specific colour and paper size requirements
• Capture true colours with flash and ambient light measurements – easily apply to output profiles for your gallery, studio or any specific lighting condition for perfect colour match 
• Quickly check colour output quality and optical brighteners with ColorChecker Proof visual assessment target

Quality Assurance (QA)

• Display quality assurance function to check soft proofing 
• Printer quality assurance function to check print quality using ISO 12647-7 compliant media wedges (IDEAlliance Digital Control Strip, Fogra Media Wedge, Japan Color Control Strip).

ColorChecker Camera Calibration System

This widely adapted profiling technology provides excellent results with just the mini 24-patch ColorChecker Classic target, producing custom camera profiles that work exceptionally well for Raw workflows, even in unusual artificial light sources. Whether you are shooting with just one camera or multiple cameras, you’ll easily establish an accurate colour foundation and maintain control of your colours.

• Minimize colour differences between cameras and lenses
• Adapt for mixed lighting
• Make colour balance match across different scenes
• Create dual illuminant profiles which takes into account two different light sources to create a single profile, which can be applied to an even wider variety of lighting conditions

PANTONE COLOUR MANAGER

• Capture and manage spot colours
• Automatically updates all PANTONE Color Libraries - and keeps them up to date
• Uses PANTONE PLUS Color Bridge values
• Builds palettes of best match PANTONE colours that are auto extracted from your own images
• Enables any library or palette, including palettes extracted from images, to be used in i1Profiler spot colour 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-colour process, including display and print gamut warnings to make it easy to identify any colours that cannot be properly printed on your target output device or properly displayed on your monitor
• Synchronizes spot colour values to design applications

i1PRO 2 ACCESSORIES

i1Pro 2 accessories have been completely redesigned to maximize ease of use and efficiency.

• Every i1Pro 2 solution ships with an easy to use aluminum, solvent-resistant, 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 2 ruler system.
• Additional accessories include a beamer holder for hands-free projector profiling, monitor holder for accurate monitor profiling, ambient light measurement head and spot colour positioning target, and a water-resistant, canvas carrying case to make transporting and storing your i1 system a snap. 

ADD AUTOMATION

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 2 device into the i1iO table to measure any substrate up to 10 mm thick! 

Specifications 

i1Profiler Software Specifications
Macintosh^®

• MacOS X 10.5.8, 10.6.x and 10.7.x (with the latest updates installed) 
• 1GB RAM 
• Intel® Processor 
• Up to 2GB of available disk space (depending on components installed) 
• Powered USB Port 
• Monitor resolution of 1024x768 pixels or higher
• Dual display support requires either 2 video cards or a dual head video card that supports dual video LUTs being loaded
• DVD drive or high-speed internet connection required for software install, download and automatic software update 

Windows^®

• Microsoft® Windows® XP® 32 bit (with latest Service Packs and updates installed) Microsoft® Windows Vista® 32 or 64 bit (with latest Service Packs and updates installed) 
• Microsoft® Windows 7® 32 or 64 bit (with latest Service Packs and updates installed)
• 1GB RAM
• Intel® Pentium® IV or AMD® Athlon® XP or better CPU
• Up to 2GB of available disk space (depending on components installed) 
• Powered USB Port
• Monitor resolution of 1024x768 pixels or higher
• Dual display support requires either 2 video cards or a dual head video card that supports dual video LUTs being loaded
• Network adaptor installed and driver loaded
• DVD drive or high-speed internet connection required for software install, download and automatic software update

LANGUAGE VERSIONS
This product is available in the following languages:

• Chinese (Simplified)
• English
• French
• German
• Italian
• Japanese
• Portuguese
• Spanish
• Russian

i1Pro Hardware Specifications

SPECTRAL ENGINE

i1® technology with built-in wavelengths check

Spectral analyzer: Holographic diffraction grating with 128-pixel diode array
Spectral Range: 380 - 730 nm

Physical sampling interval: 3.5 nm
Optical resolution: 10 nm
Spectral reporting: 380 ... 730 nm in 10 nm steps

Measurement Frequency in scanning mode: 200 measurements per second

OPTICS
Measurement geometry: 45°/0° ring illumination optics, ISO 13655:2009
Measurement aperture: 4.5 mm (0.18”) diameter (effective measurement aperture during scanning is depending on the patch size and measurement speed)
Illumination Spot Size: 3.5 mm (0.14”)

Light source: Gas filled tungsten (illuminant type A) and UV LED

REFLECTANCE MEASUREMENT
Data Format: Spectral Reflectance [dimensionless]
Measurement Conditions:

• UV included - ISO 13655:2009 measurement condition M0
• D50 - ISO 13655:2009 measurement condition M1
• UV excluded Filter - ISO 13655:2009 measurement condition M2

OBC: Optical Brightener Compensation (OBC) with i1Profiler software 

Calibration: Manual on external ceramic white reference

Measurement Background: white, ISO 13655:2009; for measurements on backup board

Minimal Media Thickness: 3 mm (0.12”) on backup board

Minimal Patch Size in Scanning Mode: 7 x 10 mm (0.28” x 0.39”) (Width x Height) with sensor ruler 10 x 10 mm (0.39” x 0.39”) (Width x Height) without sensor ruler

Inter-instrument agreement: 0.4 ∆E94* average, 1.0 ∆E94* max. (deviation from X-Rite manufacturing standard at a temperature of 23ºC (73.4ºF) on 12 BCRA tiles (D50, 2º))
Short-term repeatability: 0.1 ∆E94* on white (D50,2°, mean of 10 measurements every 3 seconds on white)

EMISSIVE  MEASUREMENT
Data format: Spectral radiance (mW/nm/m² /sr); Luminance Y (cd/m²)
Measurement range: 0.2 - 1200 cd/m² on a typical LCD-Monitor
Short-term repeatability: x,y: +/- 0.002 typical (5000°K, 80 cd/m²) 

AMBIENT LIGHT MEASUREMENT

Data Format: spectral irradiance [mW/nm/m²], illuminance [lux]

Type: Cosine-corrected diffuse light measurement head

INTERFACE, DIMENSIONS AND WEIGHT

Interface: USB 1.1

Power supply: Device powered by USB. No additional charger or battery required. USB 1.1 high power device.

Physical dimensions

• i1Pro device: Length 155 mm, width 66 mm, height 67 mm (6.1” x 2.6” x 2.6”) 
• i1 Ruler: Length 337 mm , width 102 mm (13.3” x  4.0”)
• i1 Backup Board: 355 mm x 265 mm (14.0” x 10.4”) folded  or 355 mm x 400 mm (14.0” x 15.7”) unfolded
  

Weight i1Pro device: 245 g (8.6 oz)

i1PHOTO PRO 2 INCLUDES:
i1Pro 2 spectrophotometer (measurement device), calibration plate, ambient light measurement head, monitor holder, positioning target, scanning ruler, backup board, USB cable, i1Profiler v1.x software for monitors, projectors and RGB printers, ColorChecker Camera Calibration software, PANTONE Color Manager software, ColorChecker Classic target [mini], ColorChecker Proof target and soft-sided storage case.