Digital BW, The Print

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From: jarrrush [mailto:johnr@...] 
Sent: 16 March 2004 17:35
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Digital BW] newbie - ColorVision vs ColorBlind vs LaCie


I understand that once I profile my monitor, I will still have to use 
canned profiles or have a profile made to help match my prints to the 
monitor? It looks like various companies sell software and devices to 
assist in making profiles of your own but it is not clear to me 
whether there is an affordable option (sub-$1000) for profiling my 
prnter. Suggestions on this?
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Look at the Eye One Photo from Gretag. You will then be able to produce
profiles for both monitor and printer.
I have found this package gives a better result than ColorVision for both
monitor and printer and current prices are just over $1,000.00.

I use it with a LaCie 19Blue Monitor and an Epson 1290 printer.

Gretag give you a spectrophotometer with the software which you use to
profile for both  devices and is a much more precise product than the
spyder. 

It's also dead easy to use and you can add other device profiling
capabilities as software upgrades if you wish to at a later date.

Richard



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