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LaCie blue eye pro 

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User Manual 

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction to LaCie blue eye pro ............................................................................ 5
2. Your LaCie blue eye pro ........................................................................................... 6

2.1. Minimum System Requirements ..................................................................................................... 6
2.2. Box Content ................................................................................................................................ 7

3. Color  Management................................................................................................... 8

3.1. Basic Issues With Monitor Color Rendering ..................................................................................... 8
3.2. Monitor Calibration And Device Profiles ....................................................................................... 10

4. Installing Your LaCie blue eye pro .......................................................................... 13

4.1. Installing the Software ................................................................................................................. 13
4.2. Connecting the LaCie blue eye Colorimeter ................................................................................. 14
4.3. Using Another Colorimeter ......................................................................................................... 15

5. Calibrating LaCie 300/500/700 Series Monitors ..................................................... 16

5.1. Starting the Application ............................................................................................................... 16
5.2. Calibrating your LaCie 300/500/700 Series Monitor .................................................................... 17

5.2.1.  Setting Calibration Values for your LaCie 300/500/700 Series Monitor ............................... 17
5.2.2.  Calibration and Profiling .................................................................................................. 18
5.2.3.  Saving the Profile ............................................................................................................. 19

5.3. Controlling the Calibration of Your LaCie 300/500/700 Series Monitor ......................................... 20

5.3.1.  Classic Test and Report .................................................................................................... 21
5.3.2.  UGRA Display Analysis & Certification Tool Report ............................................................. 22
5.3.3.  Saving the Calibration Report ........................................................................................... 23
5.3.4.  The Calibration Report ..................................................................................................... 23

5.4. Advanced Options ..................................................................................................................... 25

5.4.1.  Optimize for Accuracy or for Speed ................................................................................... 25
5.4.2.  Blackpoint Adjustment Setting ........................................................................................... 25
5.4.3.  Chromatic Adaptation Setting ........................................................................................... 25
5.4.4.  Profile type ...................................................................................................................... 25
5.4.5.  Profile Version ................................................................................................................. 26
5.4.6.  OSD lock ........................................................................................................................ 26
5.4.7. ColorKeeper ................................................................................................................... 26

5.5. Switching Colorimetric Environments ............................................................................................ 27
5.6. Using a Reference Profile for Easy Setup or Monitor Matching ........................................................ 28
5.7. Analyzing Your Ambient Lighting Conditions ................................................................................. 29
5.8. Fine Tuning your LaCie 300/500/700 Series Monitor ................................................................... 30
5.9. Accessing Key Monitor and System Information ............................................................................. 31

6. Calibrating Other Monitors with the LaCie blue eye pro ......................................... 32

6.1. Starting the Application ............................................................................................................... 33
6.2. Calibrating your Monitor ............................................................................................................ 33

6.2.1.  Setting Calibration Values for your Monitor ........................................................................ 34
6.2.2.  Brightness Adjustment ...................................................................................................... 35
6.2.3.  Contrast Adjustment ......................................................................................................... 36
6.2.4.  White Point Adjustment .................................................................................................... 37
6.2.5.  Creating A Profile with “Calibration” ................................................................................. 38
6.2.6.  Saving The Profile ............................................................................................................ 38

Summary of Contents for blue eye pro

Page 1: ...itor 20 5 3 1 Classic Test and Report 21 5 3 2 UGRA Display Analysis Certification Tool Report 22 5 3 3 Saving the Calibration Report 23 5 3 4 The Calibration Report 23 5 4 Advanced Options 25 5 4 1 O...

Page 2: ...rolling the Calibration of Your Monitor 39 6 3 1 Calibration Report 39 6 3 2 Test And Report 39 7 Using Your LaCie blue eye pro with Windows 40 8 Troubleshooting 41 9 Contacting Customer Support 43 9...

Page 3: ...mercial installation This equipment causes uses and can radiate radio fre quency energy and if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions may cause harmful interference to radio commun...

Page 4: ...art Number 36 88 32 Type Eye One Display Power Requirements DC via Host PC This symbol on the prod uct or on its packaging indicates that this product must not be disposed of with your other household...

Page 5: ...d for contract proofing control UGRA has extended this test to Monitor evaluation For the first time the Proof Edition of LaCie blue eye pro embeds UGRA s test ap proach and criteria and makes it poss...

Page 6: ...Graphics board supporting DDC CI USB port LaCie 300 500 700 Series monitor for automatic calibration Mac Users Mac OS 10 3 9 or later on PowerPC or 10 4 5 or later on Intel 128MB RAM USB port Graphics...

Page 7: ...Cable counterweight 3 LaCie Display Utilities CD ROM includes User Manual and Calibration Software 4 Quick Install Guide IMPORTANT INFO Please save your packaging In the event that the drive should ne...

Page 8: ...with the operating system and the application software to ensure that images are displayed accurately This section will help to explain how color is created and how LaCie blue eye pro utilizes calibra...

Page 9: ...ed accurately One particular monitor could display the blue as akin to sky blue an other as Navy Blue and another as another shade of blue And this is the case for all colors not just blue Because the...

Page 10: ...embedded in the artwork produced from the professional s workstation The ICC profile acts as a translator between RGB values and absolute colorimetric mea surements that are expressed in a scientific...

Page 11: ...the characteristics of the color dis played by the RGB value R 255 G 255 B 255 These characteristics are often summarized with the term White Point Temperature because scientists have developed a mod...

Page 12: ...lues actually rep resent They relate device dependent RGB values to device inde pendent CIELAB Yxy values They contain data to convert between the RGB value that each device produces and the CIELAB Yx...

Page 13: ...ears on your desktop double click the disc icon to open the LaCie Color Utilities CD ROM A pop up window will appear Follow the on screen instructions to drag LaCie blue eye pro into your applications...

Page 14: ...Cie blue eye colorimeter with your other hand You should hear a click noise whenever the LaCie blue eye colorimeter is removed or placed in its protective shell figure A 2 Incline the monitor by 10 fi...

Page 15: ...DTP94 GretagMacBeth now XRite eyeOneDisplay v1 v2 eye One Pro ColorVision Spyder 2 3 The default device expected by LaCie blue eye pro is the LaC ie blue eye colorimeter If you are using another colo...

Page 16: ...profiling Room lighting has an affect on the appearance of screen images Tilt the monitor upwards 10 with the axis measuring from the horizontal length of the bottom of the monitor This helps to preve...

Page 17: ...in the box at right General recommendations regarding settings If you are not yet familiar with color management meth ods or with your workflow s specifics you may adopt the following settings as gene...

Page 18: ...utton For further information on this feature please refer to section 5 6 of this manual If necessary you can access the Advanced options menu by clicking on the advanced options button refer to secti...

Page 19: ...settings were Once you have chosen the profile s filename click on the Save Profile button This file is stored in the Home Library Col orSync profile folder In Windows 2000 and XP the file is stored...

Page 20: ...senting the color discrepancies measured by the tool UDACT1 Test Uniformity A certificate of conformity to UGRA recommendations regarding soft proofing UGRA certified or UGRA not certified In both ca...

Page 21: ...hod and therefore express perceptive color differences The lower these Delta E values the better If these Delta Es are below 2 the values will be displayed in Green The difference between the measured...

Page 22: ...ecommendations are the following 1 White Point max 2DeltaE Gray Balance max 1 DeltaC average and max 2 DeltaC range with 95 tonal range Profile Quality max 3 DeltaE average and 6 DeltaE peak value Gam...

Page 23: ...hese two diagrams b show the Chromaticity diagram and the delta E differences between measured color patches and tar geted values These lines c represent your calibration settings targets versus the r...

Page 24: ...nts including Gray Balance and UGRA FOGRA Mediawedge color patches as well as Monitor Unifor mity results Fig C Fig D UGRA Display Analysis Certification Tool Report Basics Date 2008 7 16 9 25 59 Repo...

Page 25: ...black adjust the blackpoint slider to your desired value This setting will be automatically taken into consideration when calibrating your monitor 5 4 3 Chromatic Adaptation Setting Some constraints i...

Page 26: ...ovements needed to be added in ICC4 profiles to increase predictability and performance and to reduce eventual differences of interpretation ICC4 profiles provide A more precise definition of renderin...

Page 27: ...have already been created through the standard calibration process described in section 5 2 Calibrating Your LaCie 300 500 700 Series Monitor When you click on the Select Profile button the window to...

Page 28: ...including Advanced Settings if necessary see Chap ters 5 2 to 5 4 5 for details 2 If you wish to export the profile on several monitors and com puters simply copy it in the profile folder of every com...

Page 29: ...ws please right click the application bar and select the correspond ing menu option This window figure A appears on your dis play Please adjust the Ambient Light Diffuser on the LaCie blue eye sensor...

Page 30: ...Cyan component Magenta to Green this slider will slightly increase 10 the Magenta or Green component Yellow to Blue this slider will slightly increase 10 the Yellow or Blue component With the fourth...

Page 31: ...tor information fields To display this data please click on About in the blue eye pro menu and the following window will appear displaying the following information Display model Serial number of your...

Page 32: ...eference and to help deter mine factory presets and configuration Make sure that your monitor has been powered on for at least one hour This ensures that the monitor has had enough time to warm up and...

Page 33: ...calibrate your moni tor See Chapter 5 2 2 for details Test Report Click this option to evaluate the Calibra tion state of your monitor See Chapter 5 3 for details Select Profile Click this option to s...

Page 34: ...har acteristics of most professional monitors and may therefore result in smoother continuity of tone A 6500 K White point is also close to most native TFT moni tors settings and is commonly used in p...

Page 35: ...u will now slowly increase the Brightness control in your monitor s OSD a few increments at a time While you do this the colorimeter constantly measures the ac tual luminosity of the monitor and displ...

Page 36: ...monitor s contrast value a few increments at a time As you decrease the contrast of your monitor the slider will move to the left towards the green area When it reaches this green area a message will...

Page 37: ...e monitor to create white To do this you will sequentially increase or decrease the R G and B gain settings of your monitor using the OSD 1 Press the Start button 2 Identify which of the settings need...

Page 38: ...ance settings With this practical format you can easily remember at a future date when your last calibration took place and what the settings were Once you have chosen the profile s filename click on...

Page 39: ...nd Luminance To do this simply click on the Test Re port button and the following window will prompt you to place the LaCie blue eye colorimeter onto your monitor The applica tion will display a sampl...

Page 40: ...an alternate device please select the ap propriate device in the drop down menu When using a Gretag MacBeth eyeOne device please select the LaCie blue eye op tion as the LaCie blue eye colorimeter us...

Page 41: ...a tions of the product that you purchased please check our Web site for the most current version available Problem Question Solution Issues with the LaCie blue eye colorimeter Is the LaCie blue eye co...

Page 42: ...or move the older and or unused profiles to a folder other than the ColorSync folder Library Colorsync Profiles Issues regarding the Select Profile Module Can the Select Profile module be used withou...

Page 43: ...s plugged in via the DVI connection Then perform a monitor Calibration Report and send it via email to Tech Sup port along with your question If you still can t get your LaCie device to work properly...

Page 44: ...cie com fr contact LaCie Germany Contact us at http www lacie com de contact LaCie Italy Contact us at http www lacie com it contact LaCie Japan Contact us at http www lacie com jp contact LaCie Nethe...

Page 45: ...expense or inconvenience caused by service interruptions Any loss corruption or destruction of data while using a LaCie drive is the sole responsibility of the user and under no circum stances will L...

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