When the new CTP4 available?

CHROMiX ColorThink
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Hi Chromix

When the CTP4 avaiable for shpping ?

Best

digi_iop

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We’ve not yet set a release date for ColorThink 4, but work is progressing well and we hope to ship early in the new year.

The next milestone for ColorThink 4 is the announcement / showing at Printing United in Las Vegas, October 19-21, 2022

We have a booth! N1071, and will be showing the new version’s features in depth.

Thanks for your interest and keep an eye on our blog or newsletter for more details.

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Please tell me it’s M1 capable; I need an excuse to buy a new Mac.

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We’re working toward Apple Silicon to be sure. It depends somewhat on the availability of AS libraries for the color instruments ColorThink 4 can support. (more about that to follow)

Any app that directly calls libraries/frameworks has to have them in the same architecture or it fails. That said, the manufacturers of most of the hardware we support seem to be either shipping early versions of AS binaries or are speaking as if they will, so the signs are good.

I’m comfortable in saying that we will support it when we’re able to, even if it’s not when we initially ship.

Also, some testing here on an M1 16" MBP shows that it’s bloody quick on most operations. Like butta!

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Color instruments: wow!

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Hi, Steve

any news for CTP4 ?

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bump (at 9 months of silence)

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Hello guys.
Any chance to have news for this update 4?
I’m looking forward to using it on M2 Mac Studio.

Best.

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We are still working on it. Not much more to relate. It’s looking good so far. We just have a few other irons in the fire with Maxwell and Curve4 updates.

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Waited a year+, any updates?

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Nah…giving up on this one :frowning:

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The lesson in this is to not raise your client’s expectations, and don’t use a public announcement to help provide your own motivation…

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Sigh… It’s now past two years since CT4 was announced.
On May 16, 2024, the word was “Yes, we are nearing the release ColorThink v4 in the next couple of months. Promise.” That’s now 4 months ago.

I’m a retired developer. I know that things slip, and I know most of the reasons why. But I also know that “Promise” should have some meaning, and that leaving people hanging in total silence is a failure of Marketing 101.

Instead of empty “promises”, may I suggest that keeping customer goodwill is worth a few minutes of your time to explain what the problem is, and what the status REALLY is?

You do yourself no favors by failing to deliver, and only making yet another doomed promise.

Your expertise in color is undeniable. The quality of your software has made it the backbone of an industry. But your marketing is horrible, and likely costing you $$$.

I send this because I want you to succeed, and not shoot yourself in the foot.

Good luck.

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Thanks for your thoughtful post. I appreciate your perspective and share in your frustration.

The delays in releasing ColorThink 4 have been from multiple sources. The primary reason is the reprioritization of our development efforts into other projects a few times. It’s particularly frustrating for me as ColorThink is “my baby” and I’ve wanted to get its new features and improvements out into the world for quite some time.

Thankfully there has also been significant development progress and we’re now at the point where we’re in late beta and we’re readying the sales and upgrade mechanisms in our website.

I’m getting as tired of saying “soon” as people are of hearing it, but I do believe we’re close to the point of release…

thank you for your patience and watch this space…

Steve