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    Lacie blue eye pro table of contents user manual page 1 table of contents 1. Introduction to lacie blue eye pro ............................................................................ 5 2. Your lacie blue eye pro .....................................................................................

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    Lacie blue eye pro table of contents user manual page 2 6.3. Controlling the calibration of your monitor ................................................................................. 39 6.3.1. Calibration report .......................................................................................

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    Lacie blue eye pro forward user manual page 3 copyrights copyright © 2011 lacie. All rights re- served. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval sys- tem, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photo- copying, recording or otherwise, without t...

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    Lacie blue eye pro forward user manual page 4 1. This device may not cause harmful interference and, 2. This device must accept any interfer- ence received, including interference that may cause undesired operation. For european users: this product con- forms to the requirements of ec direc- tives 7...

  • Page 5: Quick Links

    Lacie blue eye pro introduction user manual page 5 thank you for purchasing lacie blue eye pro, lacie’s profes- sional color management solution. The lacie blue eye pro colo- rimeter and lacie blue eye pro software are a fast, precise, and easy-to-use color management tool that will automatically ca...

  • Page 6: 2. Your Lacie Blue Eye Pro

    Lacie blue eye pro your lacie blue eye pro user manual page 6 2. Your lacie blue eye pro 2.1. Minimum system requirements windows users ✦ windows 2000, xp, vista ✦ 128mb ram ✦ graphics board supporting ddc-ci ✦ usb port ✦ lacie 300/500/700 series monitor for automatic calibration mac users ✦ mac os ...

  • Page 7: 2.2.  Box Content

    Lacie blue eye pro your lacie blue eye pro user manual page 7 blue ey e 2.2. Box content your lacie blue eye pro should include the following: 1. Lacie blue eye pro colorimeter with ambient light diffuser/ protective shell 2. Cable counterweight 3. Lacie display utilities cd-rom (includes user manua...

  • Page 8: 3. Color Management

    Lacie blue eye pro color management user manual page 8 3. Color management the digital age has brought about many important gains for color-conscious professionals, whether they work in fields such as graphic design, pre-press, video or digital photography. With these improvements, however, new chal...

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    Lacie blue eye pro color management user manual page 9 rgb values are device-dependent as we noted earlier, every monitor has its own individual settings for reproducing the rgb, because monitor manufacturers make very different choices as to the components that are used in their monitors. This lead...

  • Page 10: Device Profiles

    Lacie blue eye pro color management user manual page 10 3.2. Monitor calibration and device profiles the lacie blue eye pro implements a convenient solution to these problems. It entails two steps: step 1: the monitor is set to a calibrated state that is described in terms of its brightness, gamma a...

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    Lacie blue eye pro color management user manual page 11 monitor calibration the calibration process allows the professional to influence the range of colors displayed. The main settings that influence the range of colors displayed are the following: the gamma curve (a) determines the characteristics...

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    Lacie blue eye pro color management user manual page 12 device profiles device profiles are the most important part of the color manage- ment puzzle, because without an icc profile within your image chain, you can’t implement color management. Profiles serve three very important functions: ✦ they de...

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    Lacie blue eye pro installing your lacie blue eye pro user manual page 13 4. Installing your lacie blue eye pro lac ie c olor util ities 4.1. Installing the software mac users insert the lacie color utilities cd-rom into your computer’s cd or dvd drive. Once the disc appears on your desktop, double ...

  • Page 14: Colorimeter

    Lacie blue eye pro installing your lacie blue eye pro user manual page 14 4.2. Connecting the lacie blue eye colorimeter important info: before connecting the lacie blue eye to your monitor: ✦ clean the monitor to remove fingerprints and dust. ✦ install the lacie blue eye software (see section 4.1. ...

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    Lacie blue eye pro installing your lacie blue eye pro user manual page 15 4.3. Using another colorimeter lacie blue eye pro supports a variety of colorimeters, including the following: ✦ lacie blue eye ✦ monaco xrite dtp94 ✦ gretagmacbeth (now xrite) eyeonedisplay v1 & v2, eye- one pro ✦ colorvision...

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    Lacie blue eye pro calibrating lacie 300/500/700 series monitors user manual page 16 5. Calibrating lacie 300/500/700 series monitors caution: before beginning ✦ make sure that your monitor has been powered on for at least one hour. This ensures that the monitor has had enough time to warm up and st...

  • Page 17: 300/500/700 Series Monitor

    Lacie blue eye pro calibrating lacie 300/500/700 series monitors user manual page 17 5.2. Calibrating your lacie 300/500/700 series monitor if you are using lacie blue eye pro for the first time or if you want to enter new calibration settings, you will first need to specify the target values you wa...

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    Lacie blue eye pro calibrating lacie 300/500/700 series monitors user manual page 18 once you have selected the appropriate calibration settings you can immediately proceed to calibration by clicking the cali- bration button: for further instructions go directly to section 5.2 calibrating your lacie...

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    Lacie blue eye pro calibrating lacie 300/500/700 series monitors user manual page 19 5.2.3. Saving the profile the save profile window will automatically appear at the end of the calibration process. In this window, you can simply choose the default filename, or enter a custom filename for your prof...

  • Page 20: Of Your Lacie 300/500/700

    Lacie blue eye pro calibrating lacie 300/500/700 series monitors user manual page 20 5.3. Controlling the calibration of your lacie 300/500/700 series monitor the test and report tool gives you the opportunity to verify the accuracy of your monitor’s current profile settings for gamma, white point, ...

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    Lacie blue eye pro calibrating lacie 300/500/700 series monitors user manual page 21 5.3.1. Classic test and report the calibration report shows: ✦ the chromaticity diagram (color gamut) of the monitor compared to the srgb, adobergb and iso-coated gam- ut. ✦ the average and maximum delta-es of the m...

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    Lacie blue eye pro calibrating lacie 300/500/700 series monitors user manual page 22 5.3.2. Ugra display analysis & certification tool report if you selected the udact test when running test and report, the report will show how well the monitor’s calibration and pro- filing state matches ugra’s reco...

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    Lacie blue eye pro calibrating lacie 300/500/700 series monitors user manual page 23 5.3.3. Saving the calibration report the calibration report can be saved by clicking on the save button. The save as window then appears. After choosing a name, location and format (pdf- , html-, text-,) to save the...

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    Lacie blue eye pro calibrating lacie 300/500/700 series monitors user manual page 24 this table (a in figure c) summarizes the l*a*b values of the measured color patches and their measured delta-e and delta-e (cie94) values. This table (b in figure c) summarizes the xyz values of the mea- sured colo...

  • Page 25: 5.4.  Advanced Options

    Lacie blue eye pro calibrating lacie 300/500/700 series monitors user manual page 25 5.4. Advanced options this menu allows you to set up advanced calibration options used for special purposes (fig. A.). 5.4.1. Optimize for accuracy or for speed blue eye pro offers you the possibility to adjust the ...

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    Lacie blue eye pro calibrating lacie 300/500/700 series monitors user manual page 26 ton. ✦ matrix profiles are created using algorithms based on ma- trices and linearization curves. ✦ lut-profiles (or table profiles) are created using lookup tables. Lut-profiles are a perfect match for devices that...

  • Page 27: Environments

    Lacie blue eye pro calibrating lacie 300/500/700 series monitors user manual page 27 5.5. Switching colorimetric environments from the main menu window, the select profile button of- fers the possibility of easily switching from one colorimetric en- vironment to another, for instance from d65 to d50...

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    Lacie blue eye pro calibrating lacie 300/500/700 series monitors user manual page 28 the reference profile setting allows you to calibrate your monitor to closely match another monitor. This allows you to ensure colors are closely matched between two monitors con- nected to the same computer or on t...

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    Lacie blue eye pro calibrating lacie 300/500/700 series monitors user manual page 29 your ambient lighting conditions can influence the way you per- ceive your monitor’s colors. If your ambient lighting is too intense (for instance if your office’s windows are not shaded) the contrast offered by you...

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    Lacie blue eye pro calibrating lacie 300/500/700 series monitors user manual page 30 lacie blue eye pro offers you an easy way to fine tune your lacie 300/500/700 series monitor’s white point and brightness. To use this tool on your mac, please click on the tools menu bar and select the correspondin...

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    Lacie blue eye pro calibrating lacie 300/500/700 series monitors user manual page 31 lacie blue eye pro offers you easy access to some key system and monitor information fields. To display this data, please click on about in the blue eye pro menu and the following window will appear, displaying the ...

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    Lacie blue eye pro calibrating other monitors user manual page 32 lacie blue eye pro also offers the possibility of calibrating other monitors than the lacie 300/500/700 series, such as the lacie 119 and 120. When the application is run on such a monitor, the calibration process is manual. The softw...

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    Lacie blue eye pro calibrating other monitors user manual page 33 6.1. Starting the application double click on the lacie blue eye pro icon from your applica- tions folder. The lacie blue eye pro main menu will appear. In this window you will find four buttons, each dedicated to a specific use: butt...

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    Lacie blue eye pro calibrating other monitors user manual page 34 6.2.1. Setting calibration values for your monitor the settings window of the lacie blue eye pro application al- lows you to provide your target values for your monitor’s settings of gamma, white point temperature, and luminance. ✦ ga...

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    Lacie blue eye pro calibrating other monitors user manual page 35 6.2.2. Brightness adjustment the brightness adjustment window will assist you in placing your monitor in the optimal range of brightness. When in this range, two conditions are met: ✦ full black and the darkest gray can be distinguish...

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    Lacie blue eye pro calibrating other monitors user manual page 36 6.2.3. Contrast adjustment the contrast adjustment window will assist you in placing your monitor in its optimal dynamic for your colors. The right contrast setting produces brighter colors through continuous tones, de- tailed shadows...

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    Lacie blue eye pro calibrating other monitors user manual page 37 6.2.4. White point adjustment the value of the white point temperature determines the actual color of white. Important info: some monitors do not offer individual r, g, b settings. If your monitor does not offer these settings, check ...

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    Lacie blue eye pro calibrating other monitors user manual page 38 6.2.5. Creating a profile with “calibration” after completing steps 6.2.1. Through 6.2.4. , lacie blue eye will finish calibration by creating a custom icc profile of your moni- tor based on the information provided to the program by ...

  • Page 39: Your Monitor

    Lacie blue eye pro calibrating other monitors user manual page 39 6.3. Controlling the calibration of your monitor 6.3.1. Calibration report now that your monitor has been calibrated, you can run a test to verify the quality of the calibration. The lacie blue eye pro soft- ware will measure the qual...

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    Lacie blue eye pro using your lacie blue eye pro with windows user manual page 40 the calibration and profiling process of lacie blue eye pro is identical on microsoft windows systems and on macintosh sys- tems. Apart from the following two user-interface differences, please refer to the correspondi...

  • Page 41: 8. Troubleshooting

    Lacie blue eye pro troubleshooting user manual page 41 8. Troubleshooting in the event that your lacie blue eye pro software or hardware is not working correctly, please refer to the following checklist to find out the source of the problem. If you have gone through all of the points on the checklis...

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    Lacie blue eye pro troubleshooting user manual page 42 issues regarding the calibration of monitors other than the lacie 300/500 /700series monitor. Can lacie photon monitors be cali- brated in dvi or vga mode with the lacie blue eye pro software? Yes, but the calibration process will be manual. Ple...

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    Lacie blue eye pro contacting customer support user manual page 43 before you contact technical support read the user manual and review the troubleshooting section. Try to isolate the problem. If possible, make the drive the only external device on the cpu, and make sure that all of the cables are c...

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    Lacie blue eye pro contacting customer support user manual page 44 9.1. Lacie technical support contacts lacie asia, singapore, and hong kong contact us at: http://www.Lacie.Com/asia/contact/ lacie australia contact us at: http://www.Lacie.Com/au/contact/ lacie belgium contact us at: http://www.Laci...

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    Lacie blue eye pro warranty information user manual page 45 lacie warrants your drive against any defect in material and workmanship, under normal use, for the period designated on your warranty certificate. In the event this product is found to be defective within the warranty period, lacie will, a...