Rich's Tongfamily (Richtong.net add-on)

Well, I’ve been scanning quite a few 35mm slides now and getting quite good at it. My monitor and printer still aren’t calibrated though and with the Spyder2Pro finally in distribution at about $240 or $100 more with Printfix, its time to look seriously at buying one.
Here are some reviews:
* PrintFIX. Basically, the point is that with printer and paper from the same vendor, you don’t need this. But, if you use different paper, then calibration really helps. PrintFix ($339 street with SpyderPro2). It is actually a tiny scanner. So you print a page, then scan it back in again and the software compares the images. The main issue the reviewer had is the USB driver torched his machine.
* “Northlight Images”:http://www.northlight-images.co.uk/printfix1.html. Another PrintFix review with an update for the august 2004 firmware version “1.2”:http://www.northlight-images.co.uk/article_pages/printfix2.html, His basic point is that the scam has tp ne good to get good qua;ity so it works for him.
* “Nature Photographers”:http://www.naturephotographers.net/articles09 03/jc0903-1.html, this is a 2003 review.
The new spyder2pro comes off netter:
* “xyz computing”:http://www.xyzajor computing.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=205&Itemid=2&limit=1&limitstart=1. not a deep review but no major bugs foumd.
* “camera hobby”:http://www.camerahobby.com/Digital_ColorVisionSpyder2.htm. very extemsive review and goes over lvd calibratiom whivh this did well.
Pricegrabber now monitors prices for the gpu128 which is the standalone spyder2pro and gpu129 which imc;udes printfix.