Digital BW, The Print

I wasn't saying that it was the best, but since my friend has it and 
used it on my machine for free I can't really complain, but I will 
say that he's used it to calibrate his scanner/monitor/2200 and when 
I do color work on my computer and take it over to his house to print 
the prints seem quite accurate to me (note that I am not a color 
photographer so I may not be as critical some).  The out of the box 
profile it created also makes a decent stepwedge as well during the 
day... even in a room with shades drawn the monitor looks noticably 
different in the day and at night.

Paul's curves gives me a near perfect calibration between pixel 
values and printed values (1160+VM)... but I still think I need to 
add a minor curve to seperate the darks better...

mark

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> I tried Monaco was not happy with the results. The ColorVision 
software and
> hardware did a much better job of monitor calibration. Remember 
that monitor
> calibration is the matching of the monitor to your working color 
space not
> to the print. In a sense having a calibrated monitor means that you 
are
> seeing the file the same way Photoshop "sees" it. The monitor to 
print
> matching is done by profiling the printer to match the same color 
space or
> by using a proofing curve to simulate a match on screen. At this 
point in
> time a good proofing curve it the best we can do. The new Piezo 
software
> that does use standard printer profiles would also give you very 
exact on
> screen views but only if your monitor is properly calibrated.
> 
> Apparently none of the low or medium priced color profiling software
> packages are up to creating usable printer profiles of the 
grayscale inks to
> actually print with. Some of them will give you profiles that are 
good
> enough to be used for proofing profiles though.
> 
> Martin Wesley
> http://www.carolyn.cc/Guests/MartinWesley/pages/MW_01.html
> http://www.borderless-photos.de/guests.html
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