Datacolor SXSSR100 Spyder X Studio: Suite of Photo Tools for Precision Control from Capture to Editing and Print

It's not a like or dislike but if you download and print all the directions for both monitor and printer calibration you will have approximately 23 pages not counting the four color pages to print for printer calibration or the 13 pages for the color cube ( which is used to calibrate for your camera if you are also doing the photography ). Fortunately most pages are diagrams with some text. Calibrating your monitor is fairly strait forward. Allow yourself plenty of time to to calibrate the printer. Somewhat rime consuming (at least the first time around) but well worth it. It took me awhile to get the feel of sliding the color print reader so don't get discouraged and don't push to hard.

Seems like a tight package with everything one would need. But here are a couple challenges we ran into:The sliding calibration tool has to much resistance to easily slide along the color check boxes. You can but there is definitely not a sliding feeling to it which it should be.I could no locate the icc profiles after creation. The first computers user is located on an external drive. We thought that could be part of it. Tech support did respond and in professional and timely manner. No complaints there.Since that could have possibly been the issue, we installed on a second computer and it replicated the same thing.OS- MacLatest updatesMyself and two of our IT techs attempted to figure it out and we couldn't.It might be a fluke but please keep that in mind.

My goal was to color correct printed photos from my Canon Pro 100 printer. After calibrating the printer with the spider tools, I got great results. In my option this is a must tool if one wants accurate color in printed photos.

I bought this suite to calibrate my desktop (LG Ultrawide) and laptop (Dell) monitors and to correct the color on my Canon Pixma iX6820 printer. The monitor calibration was easy with the step-by-step guide. Printer calibration is trickier, but it ended up with a near-perfect match to the monitor. The printer's saturation is lower, but that's to be expected.The main stumbling block for me with the printer was with printing the sample sheets. The first time I did it, I did not disable printer color management, and I got an improved but not great result. The second time -- with printer color management turned off -- resulted in perfect shade matching between the monitor and printer. I calibrated glossy photo paper and plain paper separately, and they both look great.Monitor calibration works for all programs, but the printer calibration requires Windows software that can load the color management file. I use Adobe Lightroom, and it has that capability. This is not a limitation of the Datacolor software, but of the printer itself.I wish I had bought this suite long ago. I would have saved lots of time I spent tweaking colors to get them to print "right" and would have saved lots of ink.

This pains me to write this review because I had high hopes for this product.The SpyderX is used to calibrate your monitor. The SpyderPrint is used to calibrate your printer for the combination of printer + ink + paper (critical for a good quality print).I'm giving this one star because of the SpyderPrint. It was completely unusable for me. I'm not sure whether it was the specific unit I purchased or generic problems with the SpyderPrint hardware and software.The calibration hardware drags against the printer paper when trying to capture readings using the strip method. It sticks and grabs, causing missed readings. I.e., a cell will be marked red as "reading error," and you can't move to the next row. That is either a hardware design or manufacturing problem.Where it gets ugly is that you are supposed to be able to recapture a single cell by selecting the error cell with your mouse and then get a new reading for that cell by placing the SpyderPrint sensor over the bad cell and clicking the button. Sometimes this works; sometimes not.After attempting to reread a cell several times, the software will lock up. The ONLY way to unlock the software is to reboot the system (a new MacBook Pro M1). I tried several times to make this work. Always the same result.The bottom line - Is do NOT buy this product. If you want to calibrate your monitor, buy the standalone SpyderX monitor calibrator.Best,Dan.p.s. At this point, I'm trying to find another printer calibration solution. The only reliable option I can see is the X-rite i1Basic Pro 3. However, at $1,740, it's too pricey. I am still looking.

Aunque a nivel de resultados aun no logro tener resultados óptimos, puede ser error en la tecnica de medición. Me tocará practicarlo con mas frecuencia