With i1Basic Pro you can quickly and easily create custom monitor profiles that ensure the colors you view are true. With the new i1Profiler software, which combines the best features of its predecessors i1Match, ProfileMaker and MonacoPROFILER software, choose between a 'basic', wizard-driven interface, or an 'advanced' user-driven interface to create high quality, precise, custom color monitor profiles.

Highlights

  

• Achieve true colors on each of your LCD, CRT and laptop monitors
• Capture ambient light conditions to create optimal monitor profiles for viewing color critical work
• Match all monitors in your workgroup with reference profiles
• Select from unlimited gamma, white point and luminance settings
• Optimize gray balance for more neutral and better-defined grays
• Validate monitor performance with included quality control functionality
• Validate printer profile quality by measuring media wedges for ISO compliance (IDEAlliance or Fogra)
• Capture spot colors from virtually any surface
• Keep your PANTONE libraries up-to-date, accurate and ready to use in Adobe® and Quark® creative applications with the included PANTONE Color Manager

Unrivaled Color Quality – i1Publish Software for i1Basic Pro

With the new i1Publish software, X-Rite has developed a next generation toolset that combines the best features of its predecessors: i1Match, ProfileMaker and MonacoPROFILER.

• i1Profiler software for monitor calibration
  New User Interface with built in flexibility at all levels
  i1Publish seamlessly combines the ease of use of the wizard driven interface found in the basic mode, and the flexibility of the menu driven user interface found in the advanced mode. Whether a novice, expert or somewhere in between, i1Profiler easily adapts to any skill level and workflow needs, while maintaining the ability to produce outstanding profile quality results.
• PANTONE Color Manager
  PANTONE Color Manager will dynamically keep all digital PANTONE libraries up to date, accurate and ready to use in Adobe® and Quark® creative applications. The tight integration of i1Profiler with PANTONE Color Manager swatch bridging software gives users seamless access to all PANTONE colors for precise spot color matching, and unparalleled accuracy of spot color reproduction. It also makes multiple color space selections simple for easy color translation to multiple applications and is ideal for imaging professionals working with brand color specifications.
   
  PANTONE Color Manager includes a unique new feature, which simplifies the creation and distribution of corporate brand style guides. Designers can include palette information, digital color data, and output profiles to ensure that their brand color is faithfully reproduced in any print production process around the corner or across the globe.

i1Pro Device

• Industry-standard i1Pro spectrophotometer provides super fast measurements and fluid patch recognition for both emissive (monitors) and reflective (print) profiling
• Use it to profile your monitors, projectors and RGB printers
• Capture both flash and ambient light, as well as spot colors off virtually any surface
• USB powered
• i1Basic Pro is available with or without UV filtration, to match your workflow requirements

i1Profiler Software

• Display true colors on each of your LCD, CRT and laptop monitors in basic or advanced mode
• Create profiles for any ambient light condition for optimal viewing for color critical work
• Unlimited gamma white point and luminance settings including native gamma and measure luminance as target
• Workgroup match utilizing reference profiles to match all monitors
• Gray balance optimization for more neutral and better defined grays, in any lighting condition
• Chromatic adaptation formula for a closer visual match of different monitors (or of different settings on one monitor) with different white points
• Preview before and after results with supplied image or your own
• Monitor Quality Assurance – validate and trend monitor performance
• Profile summary report ideal for post profile analysis
• Automatic Display Calibration (ADC) support for leading industry monitors*
• Profile reminder to ensure true and reliable color over time

PANTONE Color Manager

• Automatically updates all PANTONE Color Libraries - and keeps them up to date
• Uses PANTONE PLUS Color Bridge values
• Builds palettes of best match PANTONE colors that are auto extracted from your own images
• Enables any library or palette, including palettes extracted from images, to be used in i1Profiler spot color optimization of printer Profiles
• Builds ICC profile-based device-specific CMYK recipes for any PANTONE Graphics library
• Simulates and helps you visualize spot vs. 4-color process, including display and print gamut warnings, to make it easy to identify any colors that cannot be properly printed on your target output device or properly displayed on your monitor
• Synchronizes spot color values to design applications

i1Pro Ruler, Accessories and Carry Case

• Every i1Basic Pro ships with an easy to use ruler system making chart measurements extremely fast and easy with just one hand. Use the ruler as a stand-alone or with the included white-surfaced, sturdy, foldable back-up board. Rapid, error-free measurements are a certainty with the i1Pro ruler and the incorporated i1Pro Teflon base for smooth gliding!
• Accessories include a Monitor Holder for accurate monitor profiling, Ambient Light Measurement Head and Spot Color Positioning Target
• As an added feature, your i1Basic Pro comes complete in a water-resistant, non-abrasive canvas carrying case with shock-absorbing foam padding, making storage of your i1 system a snap

Add speed and productivity to your workflow

Whether you add on i1Publish output functionality, or are working with another application, you can increase your productivity with the optional i1iO automated hands-free chart reader. Simply dock your i1Pro device into the i1iO table to measure any substrate up to 10 mm thick!

Or add an i1iSis with OBC – an automated chart reader with the industry's first Optical Brightener Correction solution to counter the effects of optical brightening agents used in paper-based substrates, i1iSis provides highest output profile productivity – a must have for any imaging professional needing speed and workflow efficiency.

*Please see Specifications tab for complete listing

i1Basic Pro includes:

i1Pro spectrophotometer (measurement device); ambient light measurement head; monitor holder; positioning target; scanning ruler; backup board; i1Publish Software: i1Profiler v1.x software for monitors and PANTONE Color Manager; soft-sided storage case.