Maxwell Client Tracks
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Maxwell Table of Contents
Getting Started - Where to Find Help
- Sign up for an Account
- Create a new Device and a Track
- Adding a Custom Reference
- Upload Measurements into your Track
- Maxwell Client - Automatic measurement uploads
- Viewing your Measurements
- Viewing a Trend Report
- Multi-Dimensional Reporting
- Using Notifiers in Maxwell
- Some helpful suggestions for using Maxwell
- About Maxwell
- Glossary
- Contact Us
The Maxwell Client program makes it easy to update the Maxwell color repository with measurements and profiles. It "bridges the gap" between the cloud and your computer. Maxwell Client 4 directly supports the i1Pro, i1IO table and iSis hardware, and uploads measurements right into Maxwell Tracks for immediate use anywhere in the world. If needed, hotfolders can be created and monitored so you can measure color using practically any hardware and software that can save measurements into a file format Maxwell can understand (which is continually expanding).
Maxwell Client is designed specifically to be able to run in the background on the user's computer, and:
- Drive measurement instruments for measuring profile targets, color charts and other color data,
- Automatically upload active monitor profiles into Maxwell monitor tracks,
- Monitor the computer's connections to printers, displays, measurement instruments, etc.
- Gather environmental data from humidity and temperature sensors (coming soon)
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System Requirements
- Maxwell Client system requirements
Mac OS X
- Mac OS X 10.5 or later
- 1.6GHz G5 or better suggested. PowerPC and Intel supported
- 1GB RAM
Windows
- Windows XP SP2 or later, Windows 7
- Intel or compatible CPU 2.0GHz recommended
- 1GB RAM
- For online data analysis (Maxwell)
- Safari 5 or later (Mac or Windows)
- FireFox 4 or later (Mac or Windows)
- Internet explorer 8 (Windows only)
- Internet explorer 9 (WIndows) Use in compatibility mode
- Chrome (Mac and Windows)
Overview of Features
Maxwell
The top setup window (pictured above) is for entering Maxwell account information. There is also:
- A quick link for finding the Maxwell Client User Manual (which you are reading right now),
- And check boxes that will allow Maxwell Client to automatically make use of compatible software like ColorThink, and Curve2.
Maxwell Client
The Maxwell Client pane shows current settings for the Maxwell Client program.
Feedback
Click on the Submit Feature Request / Bug Report link to send us feedback on:
- New features you would like to see in the software,
- Bugs in the system that you think we should know about.
Measurement targets
To use custom-made targets, click the Open Target Folder link. This opens the proper folder on your operating system into which you can place the reference files for any targets you wish to use. Maxwell Client will accept target references made by the following programs:
- ColorPort
- MeasureTool
For more information about using Maxwell Client to read custom-made targets, go to Measuring your target with Maxwell Client.
Devices
Devices can be printers, presses, or hotfolders which you might want to have tracked in Maxwell.
Clicking on your computer name, will bring up an overview of:
- Your computer name, model and serial number,
- The hotfolders that have been created for your devices, their connection status, and which Maxwell track they are bonded to.
To add a new device:
- Click on the plus sign in the bottom left corner of Maxwell Client.
- Choose a folder to use as a hotfolder. (Create a new folder if necessary.)
Bond Device to Track
Once a device is created, it should be bonded to a Maxwell track. Once a device or hotfolder is bonded to a track, any measurement files that are dropped into this hotfolder will automatically be uploaded into Maxwell.
See How to setup Maxwell to track a printer for more information on creating a track in Maxwell.
Device details
Clicking on a specific device will bring up details about:
- The hotfolder it is assigned to
- The bonding status
- Recent history of files that have been uploaded for this device.
From this pane you can:
- Set the default instrument you will use to take your measurements
- Set your preferred target
- Open the measurement window using the Measure... button.
Displays
Maxwell Client can also be configured to automatically upload monitor profiles.
- Maxwell Client will automatically detect all displays that are connected to your computer.
- Names are assigned according to the display's internal EDID information.
- When a display is disconnected, the display name is grayed out.
- Clicking the Displays heading will show the available displays, whether they are connected and bonded, and which Maxwell track they are bonded to.
Clicking on a specific monitor will bring up details about:
- The name and serial number for the display,
- The calibration expiration settings,
- The bonding status,
- The recent history of monitor profiles that have been uploaded for this display.