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Your cart is empty.Datacolor Spyder X Studio is the essential all-in-one photographic workflow solution for precision control from capture, to editing to print. This cost-saving suite of tools ensures your photos are captured accurately, your monitors display precise colors, and your prints are perfect every time. Here's how to make the most of the tools you'll find in Spyder X Studio: Start with Spyder Cube for incomparable image capture. It lets you set white and black values (something you can't do with just a gray card) and define your neutral gray. When you?re ready to edit, monitor calibration is effortless with Spyder X Elite our fastest, most accurate and easiest-to-use monitor calibration tool ever. Finally, use Spyder Print for full control of your printer output. It lets you create multiple custom profiles for any combination of printers, inks and papers.
Kevin Guernsey
2025-08-28 16:01:48
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.
davidjfoto
2025-07-31 16:37:58
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.
John H. Nichols
2025-07-10 16:42:10
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.
Dale Elliott
2025-06-29 15:18:39
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.
Dan Clark
2025-06-11 15:08:49
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.
Felix León
2025-05-21 17:57:23
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
Franz Jukel
2025-05-10 11:10:54
Arrived as stated. Meets my needs and works very well!
LALANNE GERARD
2025-04-12 17:30:27
Packs idéal tout fonctionne a merveille. Le cube est vraiment magique.dommage que tout les modes d emploi ne soit pas rédigé en français
Diesel
2025-03-19 10:53:08
The Spyder Print, I learn from other reviews, is not Mac compatible. Why was that not part of the specs, particularly when photographers tend to prefer Macs? Poor to no instructions. Poor online support. Totally frustrating and waste of time and effort. Profiles not saving. Not user friendly. Amazon needs to better vet products. Been bitten before. So, more money but no benefit. The monitor calibrator works, but that gets one star only because the vendor is incompetent and lacking in integrity. Too long stuck in this web having my lifetime sucked out of me.
Patrick A
2025-03-12 16:53:01
finally gave in to buying this kit to get the best out of my new printer and wow doesn't it make a difference might seem a lot to pay but will give more reliable results and at home to no waiting for them to arrive.
Cliente de
2025-01-17 12:33:40
Creo que la gente comúnmente tiene una idea errónea de lo que hacen estas herramientas, piensan que son para que las cosas se vean mejor, para que tu impresora tenga mayor calidad de impresión, imprima más colores o algo asÃ. Y que tu monitor tenga más HD que nunca. Sin embargo no es asÃ, sirven para dar consistencia en la visualización de imágenes, y regularmente eso significa que las cosas se vean "peor", por ejemplo el calibrador de monitores sirve para quitar las correcciones de imagen que haga tu monitor para que se vea mejor, por lo regular quitará contraste y saturación, pero sirve para que veas las fotografÃas tal cual se tomaron y no cometas el error de hacer una edición fotográfica que solo se verá bien en tu monitor. Pero solo se aprovecha cuando tienes un monitor que alcance a cubrir cierta gama de colores. Y para muchos tampoco tendrá sentido ya que para que el mundo vea las imágenes como tu las viste, todos deberÃa tener un monitor o pantalla calibrada. Entonces cuando de verdad sirve es cuando tu mismo imprimes tus fotografÃas. Y ahà viene la siguiente idea errónea de la gente.El perfilador de impresoras no hace que tu impresora imprima mejor, sirve para evaluar la reproducción de colores que tiene tu impresora, en cierto papel especÃfico, y crear un perfil para que lo puedas previsualizar en la pantalla calibrada y hacer las correcciones necesarias para se imprima como tu quieres. Ahà es cuando se cumple el "se verá igual en el monitor que en el papel", es cierto, pero solo después de corregir los colores que tu impresora no puede reproducir, obviamente mientras mayor calidad tenga la impresora y mayor cantidad de tintas utilice tendrá una mayor capacidad de reproducción de colores, y entonces es cuando empiezas a experimentar con los tipos de papel.En general si son herramientas muy útiles, pero antes de comprar si es importante saber lo que hacen, si no seguramente te llevaras una gran decepción.
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