A small change in these filters can result in a big change in the calibrator's measurement of colour.
These calibrators contain dye printed filters over the sensor, and like any colour printed item, these will change in time.This includes the entire Spyder range right through to the X and i1s before the i1Display Pro model.Īfter three years, you may encounter problems, and it is likely the accuracy of your calibrator will drop off significantly.
In practise, after long and diverse experience at Image Science, we have come to believe that three years is about the length of time you will reliably get from a good monitor calibrator (of the colorimeter type) - using standard organic filters. It won't! Unfortunately, calibrators can and do fail on occasions, and do also simply wear out. However, it's all too common to see people who own a calibrator and have given up using it because they encounter problems at some point (most likely a failed calibrator), or bought a calibrator in 2002 and dig it out once a year assuming it will be bringing them accuracy. Your screen and perception of it will influence profoundly every single image you make and calibrating it is the bare minimum you should be doing to keep it running OK. Put simply, to do serious, reliable, accurate digital imaging work it is fundamental that you can see and assess on screen colour accurately. Even Graphic Designers who are often surprisingly reluctant to move on from the primitive days of Pantone books and CMYK, are finally getting the message that calibration is the way to go. In the photographic domain, it's fairly rare to see anyone doing serious work without a monitor calibrator. Monitor calibration is now universally seen as an important part of quality image making.
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