Monitor and Printer Calibration Products & Solutions

Don't trust the colours on your screen?

In today's digital darkroom, even brand new monitors need calibration on a regular basis. Monitor calibration controls your display's color so that it is accurate and consistent from day-to-day and image-to-image.

No two monitors are the same. Each one comes out of the box different - and they change over time. This is true for both CRT and LCD monitors. Have you ever walked into an electronics store, seen rows and rows of televisions next to each other, and noticed that there was a perceptible - sometimes major - difference in colour among them? That's what we mean by "snowflakes."

ColorVision's Spyder in combination with PhotoCAL or OptiCAL software, provides accurate colour on every monitor! With just a few steps and in only minutes you can create an ICC profile of your monitor. Now every ICC compatible application can work with it.

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Now included with every Spyder or SpyderPRO purchase - a completely FREE copy of Adobe Photoshop Album! This software is valued at R473.95 and integrates perfectly with PhotoShop Elements to produce brilliant digital effects. Click for more info
Spyder with PhotoCAL		Click to order
The award-winning Spyder is an all-digital, seven-filter colorimeter that works with both CRT and LCD monitors. Working together with the wizard-based PhotoCAL software, the Spyder calibrates your monitor to a universal standard for color and automatically creates a correct monitor profile. The end result - a monitor that displays accurate color and lets you trust what you see on your screen. Designed for photo enthusiasts, the PhotoCAL software guides you through the calibration process. Select your gamma and color temperature and then attach the Spyder to your screen. PhotoCAL does the rest! An advanced feature to balance the RGB guns of your monitor is also available to optimize your monitor's performance even further. A calibrated monitor is the cornerstone of your digital darkroom. The Spyder addresses this need by providing photo enthusiasts with a very affordable tool for calibrating their LCD and CRT monitors. The Spyder lets you trust what you see on your screen. Click for more info Price: R 1650.00 (excl VAT)
SpyderPRO with OptiCAL		Click to order
The acclaimed SpyderPRO with OptiCAL combines the award-winning Spyder - an all-digital, seven-filter colorimeter that works with both CRT and LCD monitors with the industry's premiere monitor calibration software - OptiCAL. The SpyderPRO with OptiCAL calibrates your monitor to a universal standard for color and automatically creates a correct monitor profile. The end result - a monitor that displays accurate color and lets you trust what you see on your screen. The SpyderPRO with OptiCAL delivers precise, repeatable results in a few easy steps. First, a unique pre-calibration function allows you to balance your monitor's RGB guns giving you the widest color gamut your monitor is capable of producing. Next you'll select a target for gamma and color temperature, attach the Spyder to the face of your monitor, and click the "Calibrate" button. OptiCAL does the rest! Now you'll know you're getting the most from your monitor. The SpyderPRO with OptiCAL also includes a portfolio of advanced tools for adjusting calibration parameters for a single monitor or calibrating multiple monitors to a common standard. These tools include a wide choice of gamma and color temperature targets, curve manipulation, precision and expert control modes, information windows, and monitor focus, geometry and uniformity checking utilities. A calibrated monitor is the cornerstone of the digital darkroom. The SpyderPRO with OptiCAL addresses this need by providing professionals and advanced amateurs with accurate, reliable, and consistent color from day-to-day, image-to-image, and monitor-to-monitor. With today's soft proofing techniques, the SpyderPRO with OptiCAL, lets you trust what you see on your screen. Click for more info Price: R 2,500.00 (excl VAT)

SpyderPRO & PrintFIX		Click to order
Outstanding Digital Prints that match what you see on your monitor - at a remarkable price! This value-added suite combines the SpyderPRO with OptiCAL - the professional's choice for monitor calibration - with PrintFIX. PrintFIX is an elegant, innovative solution that enables you to produce pro quality prints from a growing number of RGB printers. The end result - an outstanding digital print that matches what you see on your screen - at a breakthrough price. Price: R 4,450.00 (excl VAT)
PrintFIX™		Click to see how it works
Outstanding Digital Prints! PrintFIX is an elegant, innovative solution that enables you to produce pro quality prints. Now you can maintain consistency from your monitor to any number of RGB printers at a remarkably low price. Price: R 3005.00 (excl VAT)
ProfilerPRO Spectro Suite		Click to order
Professional level printer profiling software bundled with a high quality spectro colourimeter to create and edit RGB and CMYK profiles for colour printers, PostScript® printers and RIPs... Click for more info Price: R 7,750.00 (excl VAT)
Master Suite Spectro		Click to order
If you're serious about your prints, the Master Suite Spectro has all the tools you need for professional level digital color control - monitor calibration, outstanding spectro-built printer profiles, and sophisticated profile editing. Click for more info Price: R 8,700.00 (excl VAT)