BARCO Offers MAC Users a More Affordable Solution for Color Calibration.

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 11, 1996--BARCO announces its new MAC-based color accurate Personal Calibrator Display (PCD).

The 21" (20" V) monitor offers affordable open calibration by allowing the end user to utilize existing, external calibration devices. The display currently supports Light Source's Colortron hand-held spectrophotometer and the X-Rite DTP92 colorimeter. The Personal Calibrator is targeted to the pre-press, publishing and digital photography markets.

Color calibration software, CalibratorTalkLite, is supplied with every Personal Calibrator monitor. The program provides easy on-screen, menu-assisted control of the calibration process and ensures optimum performance from the external calibration devices. In addition, CalibratorTalkLite enables users to generate high quality profiles in Colorsync II or ICC formats. The program is currently available for use with MAC OS 7.5 systems.

The pixel resolution of the Personal Calibrator is multiscanning up to 1600 x 1200. The display also comes equipped with a digital stabilization circuit to guarantee greyscale consistency, perfect color and tone reproduction over time, eliminating dark tone shift problems. Like BARCO's Megacalibrator and Reference Calibrator, the Personal Calibrator incorporates BARCO's Automatic Kinescope Bias (AKB) technology to eliminate drift.

"We are very excited about this new monitor," said Wendy Bosley, Product Manager. "The Personal Calibrator Display is a direct result of customer and dealer input. Now Macintosh users who could not afford a BARCO in the past will discover a new, competitively priced monitor that offers the flexibility of open calibration and color stability without the drift."

Pricing and Availability

The Personal Calibrator is a new cost-effective addition to BARCO's family of Calibrator monitors, which includes the MegaCalibrator and the Reference Calibrator. The Personal Calibrator Display is currently available through the authorized BARCO dealer channel. The display ships standard with CalibratorTalkLite software, video cable and a viewing hood for a list price of $4,295.

BARCO Background

The BARCO Group is headquartered in Kortrijk, Belgium and is organized in four strategic groups: Visualization, Communication, Automation and Graphic Systems. Its U.S. subsidiary, BARCO, Inc., based in Kennesaw, Ga. consists of four divisions: BARCO Display Products Division, BARCO Graphics Division, BARCO Chromatics Division and BARCO Automation Division. BARCO Display Products Division supplies a full line of video, data and graphic projection systems and large screen display products. -0-

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