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ColorVision Spyder 2 Plus (Win/Mac) | 
 enlarge | From: Colorvision
Category: Software
This item is no longer available
Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 7453
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Xp, Mac Os X
Media: CD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 10.3 x 8.4 x 2.8
Warranty: 2 years warranty
MPN: Spyder2 Plus
Model: GPU131
UPC: 854354000502
EAN: 0854354000502
ASIN: B0006GQ6II
Release Date: January 1, 2006
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| Features:
| • | Sleek, dual-phase Spyder2 colorimeter offers pro-level monitor calibration - Superior gray balance, tonal response and accurate flesh tones | | • | Create exceptionally smooth gradient steps, lifelike skin tones and neutral grays | | • | New filter pack system and patent-protected light baffle increase the accuracy of on-screen color | | • | PANTONE Colorist helps to enhance, edit, correct, and specify colors on your images, screens, and printers |
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Product Description
ColorVision Spyder2 Plus combines the all - new Spyder2 - the new standard for affordable monitorcalibration - with ProfilerPLUS. Spyder2 colorimeter and monitor calibration for advanced amateurs and prosumers delivers precise ICC display profiles for your CRT, LCD or notebook display. ProfilerPLUS provides quick, scanner-based printer profiles.
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| Customer Reviews:
Spyder 2 is just OK February 16, 2007
Thomas T. Veldhouse (Coon Rapids, MN United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I am not entire fond of the Spyder 2, but it is much better than Adobe Gamma. One catch is that it doesn't take into account the ambient lighting like the Eye One Display products. It also requires manual adjustment of the monitor controls rather than using a common, nearly universla interface to do it programatically. And last, they are VERY slow with drivers and do not release any WHQL certified drivers; this is a big deal if you want to use the hardware with Windows Vista x64 (you can't).
 Careful... not for Mac Tiger users and as for PCs.... August 15, 2006
T. Byrne (Lancaster)
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
If you own a Mac and use OX-X Tiger or later, this is NOT the device for you. It may be fine for a Windows/PC user. ColorVision phased the Plus edition out toward the end of 2004. Their support for it is quite limited here in the middle of 2006. Mac users with OS-X Tiger or later OSs will discover that synching a printer profile with their monitors cannot be done with the included software. There is also an annoyance in performing this synching even if you use a Widows-PC. In order to synch your monitor with your printer, you must scan in a color chart. Should you lack a scanner, or not have one available, again, you will not be able to create a printer profile and hence synch your monitor with you printer - which is the sufficient purpose of this device.
You will, however, be able to re-profile your monitor such that it will show colors consistent with some objective standard. This may come much closer to your printer/paper profile than the image presently displayed on your monitor. This device may be very useful to owners of older Mac OS operating systems (although while it is consistent with OS-X, I do not know how old or whether this software was created pre-Panther OS) and Windows PC users - should they have scanners on line. Apparently that's who the designers of this device had in mind. I have returned my Spyder2Plus in exchange for a Spyder2Pro, ColorVision's currently supported product, which I hope will allow me to competently profile both my monitor AND my printer. I look forward to favorably reviewing that purchase in the near future.
 What A Difference that "Little Spyder" Makes June 26, 2006
Iris S. Delameter (West Covina, CA United States)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
The Spyder 2 Plus is easy to use, directions are clear, and the results are amazing. If you have spent hours adjusting the controls on your monitor to obtain "correct" colors, you will enjoy the ease of use of the Spyder and the improvement in screen colors. It is also easy to calibrate your scanners and printers so that "what you see, is actually what you get."
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