Ok. One question about linux software for Eizo.
I got the installer for Linux version from support, but I cannot install it. The page says it is for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (64-bit). But I use Ubuntu 18.04. Is there any way to “translate” it on Ubuntu Linux?
I’m a complete idiot when it comes to that sort of thing.
Here is a link to the installer, if anyone is interested:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=14lFG-MHPu0q1lohbZv4rDQ_YMnLEcHvw
Good luck!
Thx @pk5dark but installer is not rpm file but shell script.
No need for alien
It is a tar.gz. There is an install.sh script and what is does it simply adds additional libraries (hopefully they are available on Ubuntu) and copies files to /opt/EIZO.
I’m not quite sure if I did not install it on my 18.04. I had CN6 installed (it was a pain in a back and I ended up installing it on VM).
If in doubt. Do as I did for CN6:
This will work since CN will communicate with Monitor via USB and it will send commands to Monitor directly via USB. Thus during calibration all graphical stack is by-passed.
You will need to manually track you ICC files and synchronize them. On the other hand I ended up with … one ICC file.
I think I may try to install CN7 in the near future if … I have a time.
Good luck
Anyway great choice! It costs around 2.500 Euro in Poland (it hurts…) Hope you will be happy with it!
i1 Display Pro is a colorimeter and i1Studio is a spectrometer.
Professional animations are done on Linux systems so there is a need to necessary SW to calibrate display.
There is no professional color critical printing solution for Linux. Neither Epson nor Canon provides drives for Linux thus there is no necessity for calibration/profiling SW.
That’s my guess. Simply there is no business for it.
Yea, VirtualBox is my advice too.
@s7habo
I do not use ColourNavigator to calibrate my EIZO. I use displaycal instead. That works nicely.
Hermann-Josef
Epson does provide Linux drivers for some printers: EPSON Download Center
Yes, I am aware of that. SC-P6000 for instance, however linux is not listed on supported OSes so i’m not sure what they offer.
If you click the link, you’ll see you can search by model for available drivers
Yes. I did research while thinking about purchasing a printer. There are no drivers for epson 3880, p400, p600, p800. There are drivers for, like I said, sc-p6000 and 8000.
Anyway it’s off topic a bit 
So how do you like your new screen? Were you able to calibrate it properly under Linux?
I like it very much. Beautiful colour and contrast reproduction. Difference from the screen I had before is enormous.
Unfortunately not. I have not yet managed to get the Color Navigator 7 working. In the VirtualBox I have difficulties to forward the USB to the guest OS. This just really annoys me and I have given up for a moment. Maybe I try it again sometimes later 
If I don’t make it soon, I’ll look for another solution.
I know that the following small howto is for a different device 
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https://blog.rraghur.in/2018/06/12/programming-the-lego-mindstorms-ev3-in-linux/
But I suddenly can see many USB devices in virtualbox. Even the “Mystic light” configuration interface for my MB appears as USB device.
thanks @pk5dark
Unfortunately, that didn’t work either. I finally started virtualbox as root and could calibrate the screen.
congrats!
Whatever you buy go for 4k resolution cause after a while you will regret buying 1080p. As you are spending good amount of money you should buy the best one with adding some few more cash. I guess you should not compromise your resolution for some amount of money. It would be better to wait a few while rather than buying lower resolution monitors.