[argyllcms] Re: ColorMunki Smile
- From: Pascal de Bruijn <pmjdebruijn@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: argyllcms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 20:22:21 +0100
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 2:17 AM, Graeme Gill <graeme@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Pascal de Bruijn wrote:
>> The new ColorMunki Smile looks like a Eye-One Display. Just out of
>> curiousity I'm wondering if the device has the same USB ID as earlier
>> devices?
>
> Hi Pascal,
> I got one a little while ago and added support in
> the development code.
Cool. Any ballpark figure when you might be doing the next release?
> It's got it's own USB PID and unlock code,
urh... "unlock code"? this is just a static device startup code? or
does it require user registration at X-Rite?
> and
> seems to be i1display like in most ways, including the communication
> protocol and calibration information. (I was a little surprised
> at that - I thought that maybe it would be i1d3 like, but without
> the optics).
Well it's much cheaper, near the Huey... so re-using an existing
design and production facility seems like a good way to cut costs :)
And I'm guessing it'll knock the socks of a Huey any day :)
> It seems to use the internal name "ColorMunki Display Lite".
> It doesn't have a CRT mode, just two LCD modes: "LCD with CCFL backlight",
> and "LCD with White LED backlight".
Oh ok, I guess that makes more sense for these times? But there are in
fact just internal CCMXes right?
> I'd hope that they have improved the filters a bit (along the lines
> of the i1d3), so that it works better with wide gamut displays, but
> I have no real way of figuring out if that is the case or not.
Right... Well wasn't the original i1display re-badged along with wide
gamut displays like the HP DreamColor and LaCie BlueEye? Assume with a
custom display specific CCMX I guess?
Regards,
Pascal de Bruijn
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