Datacolor Spyder Print Studio

Datacolor Spyder Print Studio Overview

Designed for photographers and imaging professionals seeking increased control of their entire photographic workflow, the Spyder Print Studio from Datacolor is an all-in-one solution for precision control from capture, through editing, to print for a completely colour-managed workflow that allows for expert colour management and print matching. This Print Studio contains the SpyderPro, SpyderCUBE, and SpyderPRINT, all of which work together to ensure your photos are captured accurately, your monitors display precise colours in varied lighting conditions, and your prints are on point, while also reducing the amount of paper and ink you use. Included is a durable metal case.

Datacolor SpyderPRINT

Datacolor's SpyderPRINT allows photographers, designers and imaging professionals to manage the colour of their print output -- it's a great tool for print matching and can reduce the amount of paper and ink used in the long run.

By selecting any combination of printer, ink and media in the software, SpyderPRINT provides a full assortment of tools. You'll be able to create any number of custom profiles to ICC standards. After installing the software, you can print your choice of targets with your printer and then use the SpyderGuide device to guide you through the process of calibrating and building a profile.

The SpyderProof feature provides a series of images to help you evaluate details and compare it with your images. Additionally, you can adjust profile settings to get the best possible printed output for images.

Please note! SpyderPRINT builds RGB ICC profiles. Please check with the manufacturer of your laser printer or the developer of your RIP software to determine if your laser printer or RIP is compatible with RGB format ICC profiles.

Profiling Speed and Accuracy

The spectropolarimeter gives you custom profiles in minutes with EZ targets for colour and black and white. The SpyderGuide device provides convenience in reading the printed targets to help you create profiles easily and accurately

Intuitive Profiling Software

The step-by-step process affords improved usability. The program makes it easy to follow the calibration of the targets and help you build a profile

SpyderProof

This function gives you a series of carefully selected images to evaluate detail from a photographer's point of view. This feature is available for each unique printer profile that you create, providing you with a soft-proofing tool that is invaluable in managing your printed output

Total Control

Advanced controls are included in the Colour and Black & White Tinting curves in your Image Editor, which allows you to apply adjustments to the profile rather than to each individual image. The Extended greys Target allows you to add precision grey and near-grey data to profiles, enhancing the quality of tinted and black and white prints

Extensive Editing Functions

Flexible target options and high patch profiling targets produce gallery-quality prints in colour or black and white. Easily select prebuilt or custom sets of advanced profile settings to produce profiles with specific combinations of highlight and shadow tint, details and neutrality settings

Datacolor SpyderPro Advanced Colourimeter

Designed for a wide range of digital creatives of all skill levels, including those working in photography, videography, content creation, digital design, and more, the SpyderPro Advanced Colourimeter from Datacolor is a monitor calibration tool for today's digital workflows. It lets your monitor accurately portray images you capture, create, edit, and view. Calibrating a monitor allows for a colour-accurate starting point for editing, allowing users to express their creative vision and share their work, digitally and in print.

Portable and rugged, not only does SpyderPro let users streamline their workflow for a photo, content creation, and digital design, it also calibrates a wide range of monitors, including Wide and Standard gamut LED, OLED, Mini LED, Apple Liquid Retina XDR, high brightness displays, and more, Optimising colour richness, deep shadows, highlights, enhanced details, and brightness. Thanks to SpyderPro's StudioMatch and Spyder Tune, you'll be able to ensure colour continuity across multiple monitors, whether using one or more computers.

Also featured is Datacolor's Device Preview Beta, which lets users see how their images may look on other devices without needing to use the actual devices. Instead, choose from a profile option for a smartphone, tablet, or other device. This may also be used to soft proof and preview how prints will look for a specific printer model, paper and ink, and print service provider by using an ICC printer profile. Other functionalities include Advanced Display Mapping & Analysis, Gamma Curve Adjustment, Automatic Room Light Switching, Rec. 709 and Rec. 2020 gamut coverage, one-click calibration presets, and more.

Colour Confidence That's Fast and Easy

SpyderPro lets you easily calibrate your monitor in only about 90 seconds, so you can be confident that you're beginning your editing from an accurate colour starting point, saving you valuable time and effort in your editing workflow. The result? True-to-life colour and fine detail capture.

Professional Results for Every Experience Level

Intuitive software and one-click calibration ensure ease of use and professional results for even the most novice user. Additionally, unlimited calibration settings like fully customisable gamma curves, white point, and brightness settings allow for advanced colour control for a truly customised workflow that experienced professionals will appreciate.

Calibration for Today's Digital Workflows

SpyderPro now calibrates an even wider range of laptop/desktop and projector displays, including the latest technologies like OLED, mini-LED, and Apple Liquid Retina XDR so users can Optimise the colour richness, deep shadows, nuanced highlights, and enhanced details of these monitors make available. Additionally, it calibrates Wide and Standard LED gamuts, while affording workflow adaptability, allowing you to work in even the brightest conditions with its high brightness feature. Working on the go with multiple portable displays attached to a single computer? The SpyderTune feature lets you adjust white point, gamma, and brightness for visual fine-tuning for the best consistency across multiple displays.

Colour "Surprises" Are a Thing of the Past!

With Datacolor's exclusive Device Preview Beta feature, you'll be able to simulate what your photos can look like on other devices on your own calibrated screen without uploading them to other devices for preview. Device Preview Beta also allows you to soft proof your image in print so you can view how your image will appear on paper.

Patchwork Colour: OK for Quilts, Not Digital Viewing

Multiple cameras and monitors, shifts in lighting, days of shooting, splicing footage - if your monitor's colour isn't consistent, neither is your visual story. SpyderPro's StudioMatch feature allows for side-by-side calibration for multiple computers/displays, ensuring consistent, accurate colour reproduction across multiple connected monitors or computers.

Video & Cinema Colour You Can Count On

SpyderPro's Rec. 709 and Rec. 2020 targets ensure colours will be accurate so you can be confident that colours and images will translate properly across the production workflow, from editing and post-production to transmission, streaming, and final display. Rec. 709 is the most commonly used standard today, while Rec. 2020's wider colour gamut will let you deliver content that is more lifelike for a truly immersive experience for your audience.

Get the "Big Picture" of Your Picture

The Advanced Display Mapping & Analysis feature of SpyderPro gives you detailed information about your monitor. You can check colour/colour uniformity, brightness, contrast, gamut, tone response, display accuracy, and white points of your monitors to track colour accuracy and consistency.

Details Come Out from the Shadows

SpyderPro's Gamma Curve Adjustment feature lets you refine tone distribution (how seamlessly black transitions to white). Gradations are enhanced so shadow and light details remain crisp and clear. You can also balance your display's brightness settings based on your location and needs, for precise colour accuracy to capture every detail.

Customisable Calibration for Your Needs

SpyderPro offers unlimited calibration settings for fully customised calibration for all workflows. Fine-tune the gamma, white point, and brightness settings for any need. There's also a preset list of the most common calibration targets, including those for video standards and StudioMatch. Willing to spend a bit more time on a more sophisticated calibration? Choose Better in Grey Balance in the calibration settings for smoother gradients. Pressed for time? Opt for the Faster setting.

Adapt to Shifts in Light

Automatic Room Light Switching measures and tracks the lighting around you to make sure your current display profile is the one best suited for your environment. Not every task requires controlled lighting so allowing Spyder to adapt the calibration to your room lighting will ensure your monitor profile is optimal. During a Room Light Calibration, multiple profiles are created for different room lighting levels.

Use CheckCal for Confidence

CheckCal is Datacolor's answer to the question, "Is my calibration still valid?" CheckCal performs a short test on your monitor to verify your calibration is up to date.

Calibration as Bright as Your Environment

Some modern monitors have brightness levels for use outdoors or in other highly illuminated settings. SpyderPro's High Brightness calibration setting balances these monitors when working in a bright environment for an accurate reference.

Keep Connected

A native USB-C connection comes standard with the SpyderpRO, along with an additional USB-A adapter for added convenience when needed.

Datacolor SpyderCUBE RAW Calibration Tool

The SpyderCUBE RAW Calibration Tool from Datacolor is a compact (1.5"/3.8 cm square), digital colour balancing tool that not only allows you to correct the colour temperature but also the exposure, brightness and black point of your images. The SpyderCUBE is a spectrally neutral three-dimensional tool that's small enough to fit in your pocket or camera bag and gives you all the features needed to easily adjust your images in post-production. Its multi-sided construction allows special attention to highlights and shadows and contains more features for image control than a grey card or white balance tool.

Just place the SpyderCUBE in the lighting conditions under which you will be photographing. Orient the cube so that the lower black face, containing the black trap, is at the bottom front, and the two split white/grey faces are both visible. Take a photograph that includes the Cube. It makes several measurements that make it possible for you to be confident that your colours are accurate, your shadows and highlights are properly exposed, and your image is adjusted to the ideal density, regardless of the lighting conditions. These functions give you the data you need:

1 Chrome Ball - Measures catchlight to analyse specular highlights.

2 White Face(s) - Define highlights in relation to catchlight.

3 grey Face(s) - Measures colour temperature and mid tone response.

4 Black Face - Defines shadows in relation to black trap.

5 Black Trap - Defines absolute black.

By using SpyderCUBE under the same lighting conditions as your photos, you can optimally adjust all the

photos in RAW conversion using the information the Spyder 3D shot provides. The SpyderCUBE is easy enough for the advanced amateur and sophisticated enough for professionals.

Reference tool to achieve accurate colours without trial-and-error operations in RAW processing.

SpyderCUBE provides all relevant light information for the RAW adjustments:

Chrome Ball to measure catchlight to analyse overexposed areas.

White Faces to define highlights in relation to catchlight.

Spectrally neutral 18% Grey Faces to measure colour temperature and mid-tones in all lighting conditions.

Black Trap to define absolute black.

Black Face to define shadows in relation to black trap.

Easy to use and compatible with all RAW converter software.

Essential for RAW processing but can also be used when processing images in a JPG workflow.

Small and handy, it fits in any photo bag

Ideal for location shooting (outdoor or indoor) and studios

Capture accurate colour without a lot of trial and error manipulation

Spectrally Neutral, so that the Cube responds accurately to all lighting conditions

Provides reference values to check and adjust RAW control settings

Allows users to instantly correct colour images by setting colour temperature value

Allows users to accurately adjust shadows and highlight detail in any RAW image

Key Features:

SpyderPro Advanced Colourimeter

SpyderPRINT for Printer Calibration

SpyderCUBE RAW Calibration Tool

Durable Metal Case

Expanded Sensor Capability

Precise Screen Colour and White Balance

Display Calibration System

Measures up to 2000 Nits of Brightness

Supports Wide Range of Monitors

Windows and Mac Compatible

What's in the Box:

Datacolor Spyder Print Studio