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ColorChecker Studio

ColorChecker Studio combines world-class hardware and software to deliver expert color results for photo and filmmaker pros. ColorChecker Studio includes: ColorChecker Studio Device: The patented, all-in-one ColorChecker Studio spectrophotometer is the only device you need to profile your monitors, projectors, scanners and printers. It's compact and easy to carry in its own protective bag so you are never without the means to create and expertly calibrated and profiled workflow whether at home, in the studio or on the road. ccStudio software powered by X-Rite provides an easy to navigate interface that delivers expertly calibrated and profiled monitors (including video presets), projectors, scanners and printers. ColorChecker Camera Calibration Software and Mini ColorChecker Classic Target for Cameras: Utilizing the included industry standard 24 patch target, you'll be able to create custom camera profiles (single or dueal illuminants), set a custom white balance and have a neutral starting point no matter what light you are shotting in for a more streamlined editing process. The software includes both a desktop application and an Adobe Lightroom Plug-in. Monitor Calibration and Profiling Once you have taken the guesswork and frustration out of making sure the colour you see on your siplay is the colour you expect from your printer, you'll save time and money and gain full creative control over your images. ColorChecker Studio uses advanced technologies to perfect the match between your display and printer. Intelligent Iterative Profiling An adaptive technology that produces optimized resluts for maximum color accuracy on each unique display every time you profile. Ambient Light Measurement: automatically determines the optimum display luminance for comparing prints to your display, based on a measurement of the lighting conditions where prints will be viewed. Video Standards Support: NTSC, PAL SECAM, Rec. 709, Rec. 2020 and DCI-P3. Extended User Controls: Custom control of white point, linance, contrast ratio and gamma. Also, measure other displays or light sources and use as targets. Profile optimization: Create unique patch sets for optimal results. Profile Validation and Reminder: View before and after resluts with included images or load your own, or use the 3D profle gamut viewer. Set reminder intervals to re-profile your display. Included with the purchase of Calibrite Pro or Plus is either the SMS ECO v6, SMS Standard v6 or SMS MAX v6 colour palette for professional design, each containing 1.738 colours suited for web design, TV graphics and Print (CMYK) design and a 12 month brand license for one brand, valued at EUR 90. SKU CALB201: EUR 660 excl. VAT, incl. shipment worldwide Contact info@spot-nordic.com to order

The ColorMeter Pro is a handy and inexpensive Colorimeter/Spectrometer that uses so-called sphere - Specular Component Included (SCI) geometry to measure samples to collect colour data, such as CIELAB, RGB or LCH from any flat surface.

It is well suited for Quality Control of Colours, where Customer and Manufacturer as well as everyone responsible for colour in the value chain all use the instrument (or at least an instrument of the same type) to measure and verify a colour of the same specific substrate that is to be ordered, whether for Paint, Textile or Print.

Note that the CIELAB values as well as RGB values collected through measurements are not appropriate for use in, for instance, Photoshop for use in design or general communication of a colour for visual judgement.
Designers and Brand Owners should only use the device to compare a colour target to a colour sample of the same type preferably or at least a very similar one - for instance Cotton to Cotton, Polyester to Polyester, Coated paper to Coated paper, Plastic to Plastic etc. to avoid mistakes.

If you are looking for an instrument better aligned with universal Print standards (45/0, D50/2° - M1) you may want to consider the ColorMeter Exact instrument - see here below.

Before investing in the ColorMeter Pro, please contact your Manufacturer(s) / Printer(s) to check their measurement standards and to have a discussion about whether this instrument may be suited for Quality Control and communication of colour.

Instruments of this type are quite common in the Textile and Paints industry, while not as common in the Graphics industry, where 45/0 /0/45 spectral instruments are more common.

If you intend to use this instrument for Quality Control of your colours at your Printhouse, it is a good idea to simply provide your contact person with a ColorMeter Pro instrument to use in their ink kitchen or even at the press for spot colour checks.

Included with the purchase is an advanced App, available both for iPhone and Android phones, which connects to the device via Bluetooth.

It is easy to measure your own Brand colour(s) or your customer's colours from a sample or guide and to store them for future use, whether they are NCS, PANTONE, RAL or SMS colours.

Users have access to libraries from NCS, PANTONE, and RAL for instance that have been measured with the instrument to quickly look up the closest colour within the respective colour systems. NOTE: Those libraries are not official libraries and thus do not come with any sort of guaranty from the respective manufacturers.

Just remember to always use the same settings and to communicate them carefully to anyone responsible for keeping your colours correct.

If you prefer to use the same Master colour for all media and to work cross-media with the absolute CIELAB values on which SMS colours are based, please consider investing in the slightly more expensive ColorMeter Exact - see here below.

SKU P50: EUR 399 excl. VAT, including shipment worldwide

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Spot-Nordic is delighted to offer the ColorMeter Exact Spectro-densitometer, a small but advanced 45/0 spectral measurement device, that fits in your pocket, which connects via Bluetooth to your mobile phone (iPhone or Android).

It is perfect for Brand Owners, Designers, Printshops and Manufacturers that are tasked with consistent reproduction of selected brand colours.

It includes the M0, M1 and M2 standards, used to measure CMYK colours printed according to ISO 12647-2-2013 as well as Pantone colours.

It enables users to measure their colours on the go and store them digitally in one place, - in their pocket and from then on to share them and do quality checks to compare new products to the same colour targets, defined by their CIELAB values. 

No longer do you have to check your products against old printed samples or printed colour guides that are most likely faded, unless they are less than 1 year old, and thus no longer a reliable standard to compare against. 

Your measured and stored digital colours - the measured CIELAB values become your new standard and you can communicate those CIELAB values to your Printer or Manufacturer so those colours can be checked and maintained during production - regardless of what it is.

Keeping track of your brand colours has never been easier.   

Included in the price of the ColorMeter Exact is a copy of the Spot Matching System Standard palette, v6 (1.738 colours) in PDF and ASE format OR a copy of the SMS MAX v6 colour palette in PDF and ASE format.

Furthermore, the built-in SMS Standard v6 and the SMS MAX v6 colour libraries are included with purchases of the ColorMeter Exact from Spot-Nordic to instantly measure and find the closest SMS Standard or MAX colour to your sample - or to check how close your colour is to your target SMS colour, if you are already using SMS Standard or MAX colours for your brand or your product.

Information about the Spot Matching System and how to use it is available here.

Users of the ColorMeter Excact also have access to libraries of various other colour systems that have been measured by other Colormeter Exact users and shared in the cloud, including Pantone, RAL and NCS libraries and users can also create their own custom colour palettes from colours measured from any flat surface.

SKU P51: EUR 599 exl. VAT, including shipment worldwide

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Testimony from Mr. Ingi Karlsson, the creator of the Spot Matching System, and owner of Spot-Nordic:

"While testing this small, inexpensive instrument (Exact) to see if it could actually be as accurate as promised, I tried measuring our own SMS colour ticket sample from a Fogra 51 proof we printed out about a year ago that I hand out to prospects (so it may have faded just a little bit and  the colours thus not exactly correct) .



The first colour I measured was the first in the row, the blue SMS colour. So I did the measurement with the ColorMeter Exact instrument set to M1, D50/2° - which is the standard measurement condition for measuring SMS colours to ISO standards.

I then took a screenshot and imported it into the sRGB Standard version of our Spot Matching System, called P-20.

The screenshot of the measurement is here. Here we have the CIELAB values of the colour along with the closest HEX value to the measured colour (sRGB).

After importing the above screenshot into my Standard SMS sRGB colour palette, I compared the LAB value of the blue colour SMS J-5 to the above LAB values and was disappointed to say the least when I saw that the values were COMPLETELY different.

I thought to myself "Ok, this instrument is obviously just a toy, but not a real spectral measurement device - not even a proper colorimeter".

But of course, stubborn as I can be and grinding my teeth for wasting money on a toy that my daughter would not even enjoy playing with, I couldn't resist hovering over a few other SMS colours in the colour palette and when I got to SMS J-8, I saw that it was quite close to the CIELAB values of the patch I had measured.

What I saw was this:

As you can see the LAB values are actually quite close to each other - and no other SMS colour came nearly as close as J-8 (I knew in advance that after one year, the *b value would be lower, - because the Optical Brighteners in the paper have faded a bit - so that's normal...).

So I went into our files and found the original file we used to create the demo colour ticket here above. And guess what; the colour we used to create the sample test ticket was the SMS J-8, - not SMS J-5 and the colour difference (dE00) between my measurement and the LAB value of the sRGB colour was less than 1.8, which is pretty damn good - considering that the colour proof I measured for this experiment has been laying around my office for over a year. If your Printer/Manufacturer can keep your colours below dE00 of 2, they are REALLY good.

My little ColorMeter Exact helped me find this out, - so I can at least say for myself that I am extremely impressed with it and based on my own, slightly bitter, experience, I can safely recommend it for serious professional uses and Quality Control".

UPDATE May 10th 2024:

We have now added the SMS Standard library to the Exact instrument, so there is no longer need to open the SMS colour palette in Photoshop to check the closest SMS colour. You get it instanty by simply selecting the SMS Standard v6 library in your Exact App on your mobile phone.

Here is a screenshot that I just took when measuring the same old proof - now 2-3 year old:

XRITE i1 solutions

The Xrite i1 Pro 3 is an advanced, 45/0 handheld spectrophotometer, accurate enough for the most demanding customers, such as printshops, brand owners and advertising agencies seeking to get their colour under control.

The i1 Pro 3 devices support measurement to M0, M1 and M2.

In fact it is so accurate that the predecessor - i1Pro2 device was used to measure and confirm the colours of the first edition of the Spot Matching System (SMS) - to confirm the cross-media conformance of the SMS colours and the dE00 from one media to the next for our emperical proof.

The i1 Pro 3 bundled with the i1 Profiler software can be used to measure monitors (up to 5.000 nits), projectors and printed colours on even substrates, such as paper and plastic.

For measurement of more uneven substrates such as textile, canvas, ceramic or film - as well as for BACKLIT displays (new) the big brother - the i1 Pro 3 PLUS instrument is more appropriate.

Included in the purchase of all i1 Pro 3 packages and the i1 ISIS sheet scanner (see below) are all 3 colour palettes of the Spot Matching System, SMS ECO, SMS Standard and SMS MAX, total value of EUR 270 plus one year of access to paid services by Spot-Nordic for one brand.

See further information about the Spot Matching System for professional design here.

See further information and comparison on the i1 Pro 3 packages here.

SKU XRIT075: EUR 1.799 excl. VAT

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SKU XRIT077: EUR 2.995 excl. VAT

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Software only: i1 PUBLISH:

SKU XRIT468: EUR 1.650 excl. VAT

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SKU XRIT085: EUR 2.079 excl. VAT

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SKU XRIT087: EUR 3.599 excl. VAT

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 I1 IO (3rd generation)

Robotic, automatic chart reading system to speed up and automate reading of charts for profile creation. Scanning area A3+.
Max height/width: 10 mm with optional  Z Axis Spacer increasing max width to 33 mm.

SKU XRIT480: EUR 3.990 excl. VAT

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I1 ISIS 2 - standard 

Fast colour scanner, perfect for creating colour profiles for printing on paper. Size: A4+. Software: i1 Profiler. 

M0, M1 og M2 conditions.

SKU XRIT475: EUR 4.990 excl. VAT

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I1 ISIS 2 - XL  

Fast colour scanner, perfect for creating colour profiles for printing on paper. Size: A3+. Software: i1 Profiler. 

M0, M1 og M2 conditions. OBC (Optical Brightener Compensation).

SKU XRIT476: EUR 5.990 excl. VAT

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About spectral measurements - Sphere v.s. 45/0 geometry

About M standards (M0, M1, M2, M3) - by Xrite