CalibriteColorChecker Display Pro (CCDIS3)

I purchased this to help my monitor better represent the colors in my photos for printing on the Canon Pixma Pro-200. Unsurprisingly, the colors my monitor used by default were off the mark and left me to guess and check my photos with ink-wasting test prints. After using the Colorchecker Display Pro my monitor shows colors that are more accurate to what the prints show, with a validated ∆E < 2. Thankfully my computer starts with the updated color profile without me needing to run the program to recalibrate every time I turn my computer on.This device does what it's advertised to do and I'm satisfied with my purchase. I have fewer wasted photo prints and my display seems to have better color pop compared to whatever cast was over everything prior to calibration. Results there will vary from monitor to monitor and user to user, but seeing greater purity in colors by removing a color cast improves the qualitative experience. You'll know it when you feel it for yourself.

Works great with 3rd party software like the Palette Master Ultimate or the Calibrite software. Accurate calibrations for my primary color grading needs of Rec709, Adobe RGB & SRGB.

I don’t usually write reviews but I think this product type is important just incase there is anyone with my similar set up wondering. I am no expert in display calibrating so I won’t deep dive specs like a colorist would but I am a photographer and videographer so color accuracy is super important. I own the new Mac studio with the m1 ultra processor and two of the LG ultrafine 4k monitors that are exclusive only at apple and a 16 inch Wacom cintiq pro. I absolutely love these displays the colors are amazing, displays are very bright, they are made for apple so they work perfectly with and Mac plus they are retina calibrated from the factory. Are the displays a little pricey? yes totally but as nice as the 5k studio display is it's way over priced and you could go for the 5k ultrafine display which is 5k sure but has less ports?.... The problem was when I purchased the second 4k display about 1 month ago, I already owned one of the displays for about 6 months. The new display was giving off a warmer tint that was not correcting. The built in color sync software was helping but still wasn’t able to be as precise as i need to sync all screens. I ended up buying the color checker display pro as well as the spider x pro. If you ask why both well it’s because I was not finding anything on which would actually work based on my displays or operating system. I’m not saying the the Spider x doesnt work in general im just gonna say it didnt work in my situation and end "user friendly" as they say it is it was super annoying that you couldnt use color profiles on other monitors and you couldnt be as fine tuned as you could with calbrite. The reviews said the software and interface are daunting but thats totally false. There is an advanced interface and a basic interface I stayed in the basic interface because again i am not a colorist or know the ins and outs of display calibrating. In the basic interface you can still be very exact and type in exactly what color ratios you want or like in my case my original display was giving of the color that I liked and wanted to keep so I ran a display check to see what numbers it was giving of, recorded them and applied those exact specs to the new monitor and the wacom tablet and boom! problem solved and now all three monitors are giving off the exact same color and I can finally work in peace. I hope this review helps.

I didn’t realize how important color management was until a friend took me through the profiling process on her monitors and then we looked at the before and afters. I was shocked at the difference. When I profiled my monitors and my laptop I saw an immediate difference, particularly in the shadow detail and the skin tones. I also learned that the brightness on my monitor was set too high. I am already saving time in my editing process. Totally worth the investment.

Buying and downloading the files can be tricky. If you watch YouTube actually running tests and programming isn’t that hard. Sucks that the software isn’t already downloaded and sent on usb

Why they hide the number of max displays supported in some hidden PDF on the website, but its 4, this device, no matter which version is capped at max 4 displays with included or downloadable software. The software is a total mess. I have 5 displays, so I disabled 1 to try to calibrate something. So I pick the display to calibrate, it pops up a lumence check on a different display -- OK, lets go along with that, dial in the brightness there, then it pops up the color swatches on the previously selected display, so I gotta be ninja quick to move the device over -- is that a joke. Datacolor may have other issues, they de-support their devices too quickly, but at least the stuff works. Got the spyder elite, color calibrated all my screens, matched them to each other -- as accurate as my eyes say. I'm not doing this for professional color grading, I just want all of my screens to generally be in the same color profile -- and guess what Calibrite --I have more than 4 displays ... like, what is the target demo for this tool -- it's not nearly accurate enough to do pro color grading, i checked it on one display, and it's not accurate, spyder is pretty similar on the accuracy, but at least it works. I tried it with third party software, and could not get a decent calibration to match all screens at all, so --returning. Will stick to Datacolor.

Better than the HL models for lower light readings. Unless you are working with brighter displays like HDR this Display Pro is all you need. It's way more accurate at the lower/darker end of the spectrum.

I've used this product in the past. For the most part, it does what I need (as an amateur photographer). Use of the product is easy if you go with the default settings. I'll have to research a more in depth use of advanced settings which are not self-explanatory. A huge negative - it is Made in China. The user manual text is light gray; the font size is so small it makes it difficult to read. While registering this item, you have to enter the serial number found on the weighted piece also too small to read (I snapped a photo of it to zoom in to read it). Again, Made in China!