Kentwood-based X-Rite Inc. (NASDAQ: XRIT) Monday announced a collaboration with the French color management company Caldera has produced the first ever Linux version of the award-winning X-Rite i1iO Automated Chart Reader.

The latest result of Caldera and X-Rite’s long-term and fruitful manufacturing partnership, the i1iO Automated Chart Reader for Linux will be driven by EasyMedia, Caldera’s integrated color management, color calibration and profile making solution for high quality and accurate output. Easy Media is powered by X-Rite’s ProfileMaker engine for ICC profile generation.

For customers who already own, or are considering an i1Pro device, the i1iO automated chart reader provides the power of i1 spectrophotometry with increased performance, enhanced speed, and fewer errors. When combined with EasyMedia , i1iO provides consistent and reliable results, increases productivity, and reduces the risk of errors while remaining easy to use by operators at all levels. It provides the fastest measurements for reflective test charts on various substrates up to 10 mm - from thin polybag material to ceramics and textiles. i1iO reads more than 500 patches per minute, thereby creating custom profiles in no time.

The EasyMedia /i1iO package is ideally suited to meet the color calibration and measurement needs of professional creatives and designers, photographers, pre-press, corporate designers, ad agencies, as well as for print-for-pay, fine arts, sign shops, textile printing, large format printing and high speed digital printing environments.

More at www.xrite.com or www.caldera.eu.