NEC Color Sensor and SpectraView II Software Kit

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I bought this sensor and software to go with the NEC monitor purchased from B&H. As they're made for each other, it was an easy fit. For professional color management, it's a necessity.

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Great solution for the hardware and software parts of calibrating your monitor.

Comments about NEC Color Sensor and SpectraView II Software Kit:

This sensor and software is excellent when used with an NEC high-res monitor. Mine is the PA27 inch. The propietary sensor is by X-Rite and the software works directly through the monitor as opposed to residing entirely on the hard drive. Full calibration takes about 5 minutes and the results are dramatically close to perfect. SpectraView also measures ambient light and thereby allows you to set up your workspace to conditions of 32 lumens or less.
I'm running Windows XP on a machine nearly 5 years old. Printer is Epson 3880. Prior to this monitor and software I calibrated a Samsung 23" with X-Rite Monaco. Very good results but this setup is better for sure.

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The SpectraSensor Pro is the best calibration system I ever used with my monitor. With that I got the NEC Monitor. It works great. The picture looks so much better than It looked with my old monitor. The SpectraSensor Pro Calibration System is a great product for NEC Monitors.

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I recently bought my NEC MultiSync PA241W-BK 24" Widescreen monitor without the Color Sensor and SpectraView II Software Kit. Big mistake. I sent my first print job using my new monitor to my professional printing lab. The prints I got back were a big disappointment. Under exposed, colors off enough to question if I'd made a mistake in investing in such an expensive monitor. After reading other review of the Spectra View Kit, I decided to risk making the additional investment. What a difference in the prints I got back from my lab. Dead on color and exposure. The kit is expensive but worth every cent knowing that now what I sent to my lab will return looking as close as a print can compare to what I see on the monitor. The Sensor and software are simple to use.

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I got this to with a NEC PA271W-BK. In the matter of minutes after installing my new monitor it was calibrated and ready to go. It even tells me when I need to recalibrate again. It is a must have with new wide gamut monitors from NEC. The color is spot on. What I see on my monitor is what I get from printer.

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I bought this bundle to calibrate my NEC PA 301W and NEC 2690WUXi2 as I'm a Lightroom and Photoshop user. The software and hardware installation is straight forward, the calibration process runs once started automaticly, also all settings and resets on the monitors are done by the software itself. The results of the calibration are excellent. SpectraView has a some nice features: A timer reminds you to recalibrate every 14 days, but only after 30 minutes of warm up time. The white point can be adjusted manually, for example if you want to fine tune a second monitor to the main one. Switching targets (like to sRGB emulation) is extremely easy and quick. Beside a good collection of preset targets own targets can also be setup easily.
After some not so good experiences with another calibration setup I'm very happy I own this one now, for it's supreme results and ease to use. In my eyes a must for every NEC monitor that can be hardware calibrated.
P.S.: a sixth star for B&H, who delivered to Germany within 2 days (!)

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A must-have for you're high-end display, specially if you are graphic designer or retouch lot of photos. It's easy to use and the possibility to save different "color-profiles" (example : print, photos retouching, etc.) is really useful too!

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This calibration kit functions excellently for adjusting an NEC PA-series monitor. It is fast and easy to use, with no manual adjustment of monitor controls needed. The i1 Display Pro-based sensor initially needs more care to set up than the i1 Display 2; it projects out from the screen more than the older model (and also feels slightly lighter), and is thus less stable. After a few calibrations, I became used to setting it up quickly and effortlessly. The diffuser for measuring ambient light levels helps protect the sensor's optical element, and easily rotates out of the way for calibration; a good design, in my view. The software includes several test patterns to help check monitors for defects.

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Actually, it's a great product, but... It fits for those who don't want to collect all parts separately.
In one hand it's good, but from another...
Just look.
Spectraview software is the best choice to calibrate NEC displays. It writes calibration data into internal display lookup table, not in your video card. So it makes calibration process more accurate and flexible.
But, spectrasensor pro is actually specialized version of an x-rite i1 Dispay Pro sensor.
In fact that its an OEM version, you can use this sensor only with NEC software, but not with x-rite programs.
So, if you own only NEC display(s), it would be a good choice. But if you would like to calibrate some other devices, for example projector or CRT display, it will be a problem.
Specialized OEM version of i1 Display Pro sensor limits the range of its capabilities.
As for me, I used this kit with my NEC MultiSync 2090Uxi display. The calibration process is fast and easy. Colors has become much more vivid.

On conclusion, I want to give an advice.
Buy original x-rite i1 Display Pro sensor kit with x-rite software bundle (then you'll be able to calibrate what ever you want) and separately buy NEC's SpectraView software.
It will work with x-rite sensor, just as it works with it's OEM sensor. You'll get all advantages of NEC's software and x-rite's hardware.

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i use this prioduct with my nec PA241w

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This is a good kit bundled to give you everything in one box. You can also piece it together by getting the coloromiter and the software separately, or even use a different brand of coloromiter or software. Some combo's are a little cheaper, but this kit is convenient, the Spectraview software is very easy to use, and with most calibration software, gives you reminders when it's time to re-calibrate at intervals you select. The coloromiter comes with a nice glove fit case that has the look of leather and sits nicely near the monitor ready for use. (My old coloromiter sat in the original box bundled with the cable etc. in a drawer.)
If you own an NEC monitor, some (maybe all) come with another adjustment software routine called Multiprofiler. Spectraview is another routine. Use one or the other. (Spectraview for the best adjustment quality.) Spectraview has many personal preferences you can select from time of re-cal notification (2 days to 4 weeks or never)type of emmulation you want, (sRGB, printer, photo editing, etc.) and many other options.
I use Spectraview on my photo computer and Multiprofiler on the other (internet) computer because I don't need to recalibrate it and it operates on lower resolution. (no bother or delays)
If you are buying a new NEC monitor and color calibration, the included kit with the SV series is a better value. But recent adjustments to the pricing now reflect about the same price seperately, as the bundled here at B&H. So either way is a good deal.

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The SpectraView is easy to use, install and customize. Combined with NEC monitor technology with LUT installed in the monitor not the graphics card makes for speedy and highly accurate calibration without fuss.

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I bought this calibrator to go with my NEC Multisync PA241W and so far so good - it is working well.

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Using on conjunction with my new PA241W. Perfect performance and exact print matching. Very happy with purchase!

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Although my NEC 2490WUXi2 monitor had great color out of the box, I wanted to ensure that I had the best calibration for photo editing. This kit installed quickly and I had the monitor calibrated within 15 minutes. The color rendition is spot on; the fact that the LUT is on the monitor and not the graphics card is an added bonus.

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Easy to use.

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I bought this software separately after purchasing the NEC 2490WuxiII monitor several months ago so I could color calibrate it. I read reviews that it is not very user friendly in that it didn't give a great step by step guide. Although I agree it was a little difficult to figure out how to use, the guide is actually (overly) detailed and within an hour I had figured it out and had a nicely calibrated monitor. The easy thing to do is just set the white balance and let it do the rest. After going through the guide, I tested out how accurate this method would be and I feel the results are pretty good - at least I can't see any obvious color distortion with my eye.

This is my first calibrating device/software, so I don't have any frame of reference, although I've read that other software provides a before and after shot, which would be a neat feature (not included in this one). It certainly didn't deter me from buying this one, and if you are pretty techy, the advanced features can probably get you an incredibly precisely calibrated monitor, although the simple "auto-correction" works really well too.

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I have an NEC 2690 and tried to calibrate with Spyder. This was not successful so acquired the Spectraview. Simple to use, accurate calibration. Everything is done automatically with a minimum of fuss.
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I bought this to to calibrate a NEC3090WQXi for use with photography work on a Mac. Easy install of software and simple calibration process. Subsequent use of color profiles from my print lab (Mpix) and soft proofing in Photoshop helped me to get prints that matched what I saw on the monitor.