I got my 9887 'Imprinted' Monday.
Whitby HiFi Center had the unit and even though i made an appointment over a week in advance, they didn't have anything ready. They had to send the girl home to get her laptop because the Imprint won't run on Vista.
It took an hour and a half of screwing around with computer settups and port drivers and calls to customer support before he finally tried it with the head unit on and connected. Doh! Turns out it would have run on Vista just fine had he turned on the power.

It sounds pretty good. I saved 2 settings, reference and linear. Hi end highs are clearer, and low end of subs are smoother. It is an improvement over what i had, but I did a pretty good job of setup myself.
It's a huge improvement over the factory settings.
Now the simple bass and treble are really easy to get to which is great for older CD's that are missing highs or lows.
For my listening tastes, I faded the rear down some and the turned the subs up a bit, now it sounds great!!

Anybody else who hass the 9887, I fully recommend getting the Imprint done.

It was 100 bucks cash.
and he tried it on his vista laptop after he had mine set up. looked like it worked to me, but i wasn't the one running it.

where'd you get one for $100?

Just joined this forum because I found your thread on the KTX-100EQ. I recently installed a CDA-9887, and had it imprinted initially by the Hi-Fi Centre in Whitby, but wasn't particularly impressed with the result. After adding some dynamat and a sub, I purchased my own 100EQ and repeated the calibration. Fantastic results!

I don't know if there are any experts on the unit here, but I'm trying to find out whether I can store curves from two separate calibration runs. I'd like one curve optimized for the drivers location, and another performed for the whole vehicle to use when I have passengers. Seems like a simple thing to do, but the supplied software is pretty brain-dead in terms of features. It would also be nice to get the settings from the calibration so you could try using those as a base for further tweaking.