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I own I1Pro 2, I1Profiler, an Isis XL 2, PM5, and ColorThink Pro. I also have Argyll installed in a VM and Matlab 'Home' in my main machine.I agree with the points made by others in this thread.I've found I rarely use ColorThink Pro anymore. For analysis and exploring questions of profile quality I almost entirely use Matlab and the image toolbox.I generally make profiles and other test charts with I1Profiler though Argyll is very good. I would use Argyll primarily and only use I1Profiler to get CGATs files except that I1Profiler has slightly better performance on 9800 neutrals. But they are quite close. I1Profiler's perceptual table is fairly useable too. Argyll requires some work to create Perceptual tables that are different from RelCol.
By default, Perceptual is the same as RelCol. However, you can customize Perc. And will have a lot more flexibility with Argyll if you want to experiment with different Perceptual table mapping.I also use only Argyll for profiling my scanner.
It's easy to add a lot more patches with a printer chart and make much better profiles for scanning prints. It's just as good as I1Profiler for standard IT8 charts.ColorThink Pro does make some pretty 3D plots though and they are quite good looking.
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For large data sets, and fast calculations Matlab runs rings around it. OTOH, you have to be comfortable with scripting to get much out of Matlab while ColorThink Pro provides s more intuitive GUI. Argyll is powerful and there are a lot of utility programs that generate cool things, plots, conversions to txt to load into Excel and such. If you intend to go deep into understanding color management I'd start with Argyll.
You can go back and forth with I1Profiler since they can both read CGATs files. You can make charts with one and process them with the other. Maximilian, I would add to my first reply also that before giving you any advice it would be good to know how comfortable you are or intend to become with command line computer instructions and Matlab.
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Both are options but not necessarily ideal depending on your comfort level and what you want and need to deal with. As I mentioned, relevant advice depends on knowing a lot more about what you wish to achieve, what your comfort level is with esoteric applications and what learning curves you think you can or would like to handle. There are numerous options. Very helpful information. The good news is that with what you have you do not need Argyll, nor Matlab, nor ColorThink Pro. Your X-Rite i1Profiler package has all you need to make fine profiles. The bad news is that no manual for using i1Profiler exists.
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One learns it 'by word of mouth' or reading stuff here and there. If you do not know this software and would like some initial guidance on using it to make your custom profiles, send me an email and I'll revert to you with some brief instructions to make sure you have the basics correct. As others have said; i1Profiler really needs little extra messing around with. Stick with the defaults and you'll get good profiles. You can try using different number of patches, as most new users try, but when just looking at actual results you'll be lucky to see much difference.With respect to a lower priced 'Colorthink Pro'; have a look at Gamutvision when it was sold there wasn't much Colorthink could do that Gamutvision couldn't. Now it's free it's a 'must have' fantastic tool for a colour geek on the Windows platform.