Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., Dan Culbertson 
<danculb@b...> wrote:
(snip)

Dan,

After checking around I see that you did indeed put a dent in your 
to...uh...productivity tool account.

Profiler Pro is $799 to $899 or for $899 you can get it bundled with 
Doctor Pro, OptiCal and the monitor spider. The Spectrocam is pretty 
consistent everywhere at $1,395. (In the world of spectrophotometers 
this is definitely inexpensive for those of you who haven't priced 
these gadgets.) Which brings the total to about $2,300. (Of course I 
could also use this to calibrate the wife's Photoshop and 1270 color 
photo printing operation so it would be just for me.) I am afraid the 
Polaroid 120 scanner accidentally damaged my productivity tool 
account and I may need to do some repair before proceeding.

One thing I did notice on ColorVision's site is that Profiler Pro 
includes Profiler RGB and CMYK, which can use a scanner in place of 
the spectrophotometer. Is this even worth considering even as an 
interim first step?

The other question is how would to work the variable tone capability 
of the MIS VM ink set into the process?

Thanks,
Martin


> 
> Not sure about the best source of Profiler Pro.  I'm still using 
the beta
> version that I got as a beta tester (which was essentially the same 
as the
> final release version).  Wish I could recommend a couple of 
different
> profilers as options but Profiler Pro is the only one that I've 
tried that
> doesn't choke on gray inks - though there may very well be others. 
If anyone
> tries another package that works I'd be interested to know.   I 
told the
> Profiler Pro folks that if they ever *fix* the software so that it 
notices
> it is measuring the wrong color ink patch I would say many nasty 
things
> after drinking way too much Absolut -- so they left that particular 
*error
> proof* mode out of the software (which is why other profilers 
choke - the
> profiler thinks a gray patch where there should be cyan, magenta 
and yellow
> indicates an error and stops taking the data).
> 
> Any spectrophotometer which gives an Lab text file output will work 
with
> Profiler Pro but with 729 patches needed for the highest quality 
profile a
> hand held one would be a bit of a drag.  Tyler is using the 
SprectroCam and
> says that works well.  I use the DTP-41 which I love but which 
seriously
> depleted my toy account for most of one whole year (uh, I mean my
> productivity tool account).  So I think the less expensive 
SpectroCam is the
> going choice.
> 
> Dan Culbertson