Over the past decade color control has been transformed, making it possible to achieve consistency from design to final product for today’s complex color demands. At X-Rite, we understand that when you have control over your press, you know how colors will appear. Our solutions allow you to communicate color information across multiple locations throughout your workflow and realize significant quality improvements—reduce cycle time, increase efficiency of color data communication, minimize waste, create multiple formulation matches and get control of color faster, more accurately. The result: higher levels of productivity, overall consistent quality and increased customer satisfaction—a definite advantage in today’s competitive marketplace.
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500 Series Instruments
The Ultimate Solution for Process and Special Colors
530 SpectroDensitometer
High-end densitometer, precise colorimeter, and a powerful spectrophotometer used at every step in the production process.
508 SpectroDensitometer
Great for prepress and the press room—it accurately measures density, dot area and dot gain in a single instrument.
Accessory Kit
i1 Positioning Target
i1Pro Accessory to facilitate spot measurements. Clear plastic shoe allows for precise positioning ensuring accurate data.
Auto Scanning for Pressroom
Automated Chart Readers
i1iSis with OBC
Your time is valuable. If you spend it measuring charts, consider the i1iSis with optical brightening compensation – the incredibly fast, automatic chart reader for high-production, high volume custom printer profiles.
i1iO
Spending too much time reading test charts? Extend the power of your i1Pro with this automated hands-free test chart reader. Simply plug in your device, align the test chart, and the scanning table does all the work.
Color Vision Tests
Evaluating and Assessing
Getting the color right is as important as getting the right color, and it begins in-house with the people who communicate your color to your customers.
Farnsworth Munsell 100 Hue Test
The FM 100 Hue Test is an easy-to-administer test and a highly effective method for measuring an individual's color vision.
ColorChecker Targets
X-Rite ColorChecker® Series Targets are the professional photographer's reference to ensure predictable standards under every lighting condition. Capture accurate colors from the beginning to minimize tedious trial and error color adjustments and achieve true-to-life color.
Whether working with film or in a digital workflow, you can rely on X-Rite ColorChecker® products to optimize the power of your camera and ensure accurate color reproduction.
- Manage color fidelity
- Expedite correction of tonal range
- Perfect gray balance, even in blended lighting
- Ensure color expectations can be managed
ColorChecker Targets will Ensure Your Captured Colors are True
Whether you are shooting RAW, JPEG or even film, including a ColorChecker target will ensure the colors you capture are true, saving you from correcting bad color later.
ColorChecker targets offer you unparalleled tools to attain full color control and customized creative enhancement from image capture to post-processing. You’ll be able to perform tasks like checking and evaluating shadow details or highlight clipping; checking and controlling color shifting, evaluating specific colors, creating DNG camera profiles and creating custom in-camera white balance for a consistent white point in a set of images.
Capture real life color with an X-Rite ColorChecker Targets.
ColorChecker Classic
The ColorChecker® Classic target is designed to deliver true-to-life image reproduction so photographers can predict and control how color will look under any illumination. Each of the 24 colors represents the actual color of natural objects and reflects light just like its real-world counterpart.
ColorChecker Proof
To help users perform a visual color evaluation of their results using physical standards, i1Publish includes include the new ColorChecker Proof, a 24-patch ColorChecker Classic target precut for direct viewing against a printed target. When used in proper lighting conditions, this offers a much more precise visual verification of output quality, so that the user can quickly determine if any adjustment is needed.
ColorChecker Digital SG
Obtain the widest color gamut available! Nothing optimizes the power of your digital camera like the ColorChecker® Digital SG (semi-gloss). It’s the original ColorChecker target, enhanced for digital photography.
ColorMunki
How important is color to you? Meet ColorMunki – the innovative new way to bring color perfection to your workflow.
Densitometers
500 Series Family
The Ultimate Solution for Process and Special Colors, including G7/ISO support and digital PANTONE libraries.
i1 Color Management Solutions
Why do you need color management?
Color management is essential for today's complex digital imaging technologies. There are so many variables: cameras, scanners, displays, printers, customer files, legacy documents, media and ink types. You need a flexible solution that anticipates the challenges like these:
- Accurate on-screen and projected color
- Confidence in your digital camera files, scans and customer-provided colors
- Reliable match from monitor to printer
- Consistency and repeatability from print to print and printer to printer
- PANTONE and spot color measurement and output
i1 now solves your color issues faster than ever with the "Accelerated" i1Pro, letting you concentrate on what you do best — create! i1 tools are used to create and edit color profiles for all your color devices including scanners, monitors, digital cameras, digital projectors or printers. These profiles which are very much like individual fingerprints of each device, are then applied in your applications, driver or RIP to get your color correct. All of today's professional imaging and design tools support color management profiles, so it's easy to implement in your workflow!
i1iSis with OBC
Your time is valuable. If you spend it measuring charts, consider the i1iSis with optical brightening compensation – the incredibly fast, automatic chart reader for high-production, high volume custom printer profiles.
i1Publish
Professional Color Management for Imaging and Prepress
i1Publish is designed for photographers, designers and prepress professionals who rely on accurate color throughout their digital workflow – from cameras, monitors, projectors, and scanners to RGB and CMYK+ printers. Get the most color accurate displays, prints and proofs, with repeatable results every time.
i1Basic Pro 2
Professional Color Management
i1Basic Pro 2 is the new standard of perfection for Color Perfectionists looking for an affordable, professional-level spectral color measurement solution offering display and projector profiling, monitor and print quality assurance and spot color measurement.
i1Display Pro
Professional Display Calibration for the Most Demanding Color Perfectionists
The X-Rite i1Display Pro is the ultimate choice for discerning photographers, filmmakers, designers and imaging professionals looking for the highest level of on-screen color accuracy for displays, laptops and projectors. Two user modes (Basic and Advanced) provide serious Color Perfectionists with the perfect combination of unrivaled color precision, speed, options and controls to fit any workflow.
i1iO
Spending too much time reading test charts? Extend the power of your i1Pro with this automated hands-free test chart reader. Simply plug in your device, align the test chart, and the scanning table does all the work.
i1Photo Pro 2
Professional Color Management for Photographers
i1Photo Pro 2 iis the new standard of perfection for “Color Perfectionist” Photographers looking for perfectly accurate color the first time and every time. Quickly and easily create custom camera, monitor, projector, scanner and RGB printer profiles, ensuring the colors you capture, view and print are true.
i1Publish Pro 2
Professional Color Management for Prepress, Photo and Imaging Pros
X-Rite i1Publish Pro 2 is the new standard of perfection for “Color Perfectionist” imaging pros looking for the ultimate, professional-level ICC-profiling solution to organize and manage their complete RGB, CMYK and CMYK+ (CMYK plus any 4) color workflows, complete with quality assurance and control validation and verification functions.
i1Publish Pro 2 Upgrade
Take it to the next level: Upgrade your X-Rite profiling solutions and the i1Pro brand you love!
i1Publish Pro 2 Upgrade migrates BOTH your original i1Pro device and ProfileMaker, i1Match or MonacoPROFILER to the latest integrated solution.
Lighting Products
Standard lighting is essential to good visual color evaluation.
SpectraLight III
The most accurate simulation of natural daylight available, this patented filtered tungsten halogen light source is available in single, dual, or multiple overhead luminaire configurations.
Judge II
A patented seven-phosphor design that provides the closest match to natural daylight available in a fluorescent source.
SpectraLight QC Light Booth
A holistic visual color assessment system with state-of-the-art light sources capable of meeting practically any brand owner specification.
Monitor Calibrators/Colorimeters
i1Basic Pro 2
Professional Color Management
i1Basic Pro 2 is the new standard of perfection for Color Perfectionists looking for an affordable, professional-level spectral color measurement solution offering display and projector profiling, monitor and print quality assurance and spot color measurement.
i1Display Pro
Professional Display Calibration for the Most Demanding Color Perfectionists
The X-Rite i1Display Pro is the ultimate choice for discerning photographers, filmmakers, designers and imaging professionals looking for the highest level of on-screen color accuracy for displays, laptops and projectors. Two user modes (Basic and Advanced) provide serious Color Perfectionists with the perfect combination of unrivaled color precision, speed, options and controls to fit any workflow.
Non-Contact
VS450
VS450, the non-contact spectrophotometer with gloss sensor is the latest benchtop solution for the industrial markets.
Platereaders
iCPlate2
Plate Control in the Palm of your Hand
PlateScope
The most accurate plate control solution available today
Portables / Handhelds
SpectroEye
The simplest and most accurate method for measuring color and density
500 Series Family
The Ultimate Solution for Process and Special Colors, including G7/ISO support and digital PANTONE libraries.
X-Rite eXact™
The next generation handheld color measurement solution that takes into account the new business needs and dynamics of a global supply chain. X-Rite eXact enables printers and packaging converters to truly understand, control and manage color across the entire color network, ensuring the utmost in color accuracy.
ProfileMaker 5 Software and Upgrades
Upgrade your existing ProfileMaker™ 5 system to include the same full feature set as PM5 Platinum with these available modules.
ProfileMaker 5 Editor Module access code only
Edit profiles or fine-tune the ones you've created by working globally or selectively with lightness, contrast, saturation, white point or gradation curves, plus check spot color reproducibility and view gamuts in 2D or 3D with this upgrade for ProfileMaker™ 5.
ProfileMaker 5 Multicolor Plug-in License
This ProfileMaker 5 Platinum module allows you to create profiles for your Multicolor devices featuring CMYK plus up to 6 additional channels. Set ink priorities, minimize ink consumption and minimize metamerism for two different illuminants. Also includes Adobe Photoshop® Plug-Ins for soft/hard proofing and multicolor separations. This ProfileMaker 5 Platinum includes one license of the mulitcolor plugin. Additional licenses can be purchased separately.
ProfileMaker 5 Packaging
ProfileMaker™ 5 Packaging, which also includes the aNy-Color module, allows for unprecedented consistency in N-color profiling giving the customer the option to work with RGB, CMYK, CMYK+X or true N-color without CMYK as part of a packaging workflow.
ProfileMaker 5 Editor Module
Edit profiles or fine-tune the ones you’ve created by working globally or selectively with lightness, contrast, saturation, white point or gradation curves, plus check spot color reproducibility and view gamuts in 2D or 3D with this upgrade for ProfileMaker™ 5.
Software
ColorQuality Software
With ColorQuality, you will meet the quality standards from the start. From the receipt of the initial order (or reorder) to delivery of the final printed material, you have colors, papers, proofs and the final product under constant control.
X-RiteColor® Master Software
Reduce downtime and eliminate needless color mistakes with this
versatile software package that provides immediate access to color
control data in any type of manufacturing facility.
i1Publish
Professional Color Management for Imaging and Prepress
i1Publish is designed for photographers, designers and prepress professionals who rely on accurate color throughout their digital workflow – from cameras, monitors, projectors, and scanners to RGB and CMYK+ printers. Get the most color accurate displays, prints and proofs, with repeatable results every time.
ProfileMaker 5 Packaging
ProfileMaker™ 5 Packaging, which also includes the aNy-Color module, allows for unprecedented consistency in N-color profiling giving the customer the option to work with RGB, CMYK, CMYK+X or true N-color without CMYK as part of a packaging workflow.
i1Publish Pro 2 Upgrade
Take it to the next level: Upgrade your X-Rite profiling solutions and the i1Pro brand you love!
i1Publish Pro 2 Upgrade migrates BOTH your original i1Pro device and ProfileMaker, i1Match or MonacoPROFILER to the latest integrated solution.
NetProfiler 3
Maintain the accuracy and consistency of measurement devices
Software Utilities
Technology
XRGA
Since the merger between X-Rite and GretagMacbeth, we – the new X-Rite, Inc. - have been aware that there are differences in the calibration standards used in the legacy product lines that were maintained by each of the previous individual companies.
Transmission Densitometers
369 Diazo/Silver Film Densitometer
X-Rite created the 369 specifically for diazo films. Provides accurate densitometric measurements for media commonly used in printed circuit board and microfilm applications.
341C Portable Transmission Densitometer
The 341C Portable Transmission Densitometer concentrates the best features of a tabletop densitometer inside a compact, portable, and economical hand-held unit. We designed the 341C as a completely self-contained instrument able to take measurements anywhere you need.