#Displaycal dual monitors not the same pro

#Displaycal dual monitors not the same pro

Sure, if you’re a pro shop, the difference between a $200 colorimeter and a $300 one isn’t going to make much of a difference, but if you’re a hobbyist that’s working on a shoe string budget $100 is a much bigger deal. For example, a Color Munki Display uses hardware that’s nearly identical to the X-Rite i1 Display Pro, but the software that comes with it is simplified and more limited.Īn extension of that above point is that you can save some money by buying a lower end hardware and pairing it with significantly more powerful software.

Most of the bundled utilities don’t give you an awful lot in the way of options or artificially limit options to segment the product space.

And the term that they most often aim to compete on is doing things better - though at the expense of doing things as fast - then the stock solutions.Īnother good reason is increase control. However, 3rd party profiling systems, whether they’re open source and free, like Argyll CMS, or commercial software have to compete on different terms. At least in my experience, the software that comes with your colorimeter is often designed to be fast and deliver reasonably good quality. However, every system is designed to balance many factors, for instance, quality versus speed. That’s not to say that the built in software is designed to be low quality. The biggest reason, in my opinion at least, is quality. The question then is why would you want to replace that software with something else? Virtually every piece of commercially available color calibration hardware comes with software to go with it.