LaCie blue eye pro
Introduction
User Manual
page 5
Thank you for purchasing LaCie blue eye pro, LaCie’s profes-
sional color management solution. The LaCie blue eye pro colo-
rimeter and LaCie blue eye pro software are a fast, precise, and
easy-to-use color management tool that will automatically cali-
brate your monitor and build the corresponding ICC profile.
This profile provides a description of the monitor’s individual
color characteristics, which helps imaging and page design soft-
ware such as Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom, Indesign, Illustrator,
Apple Aperture, and QuarkXPress, to display accurate colors.
Thanks to LaCie blue eye pro, Graphics Pros working in color-
managed environments are able to adjust every monitor in their
workflow, allowing them to perform image softproofing and edit-
ing in total confidence.
Throughout this User Manual, several ref-
erences are made to UGRA, the Swiss Cen-
ter of Competence for Media and Printing
Technology. Well known for its Mediawedge®, a standardised
control strip that is used 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 possible to certify a worksta-
tion for softproofing. To take advantage of this certification, se-
lect “UDACT” when using LaCie blue eye pro’s
Test and Report
feature (please refer to section
5.3.
for detailed instructions).
Click a topic:
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Install
your LaCie blue eye pro
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Calibrate
your LaCie 300/500/700 Series Monitor
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Calibrate
other monitors
Quick Links
Features
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Automatic hardware calibration on all LaCie
300/500/700 series monitors with user-specified white
point temperature, gamma, and brightness settings
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Advanced calibration options: reference profile match-
ing, blackpoint adjustment, and white point fine-tun-
ing
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Monitor calibration and profile accuracy testing through
Test and Report function
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Dynamic calibration switching through Select Profile
function
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Ambient light measurement
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Compatible with leading measurement devices
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Integrate into Apple ColorSync and ICC-compatible
environments, such as Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom,
Indesign, and Illustrator, Apple Aperture, and QuarkX-
Press.
1. Introduction to LaCie blue eye pro