Digital BW, The Print

>Well guys after the discussions here and on a couple other places I
>asked the same basic question along with a weekend of more reading
>and worrying. I'm leaning heavily towards the LaCie electron19blue IV
>and combining it with it's native Blue Eye calibrater. I like the
>idea that they are made to work together and read there are some nice
>advantages to that combined system with regaurds to ease of
>adjustment via mouse and on screen controls. I can find the Monitor
>for under $375.00 and the calibation set up for around $400.00.
>That's about what I wanted to spend on a monitor, but a bit more then
>I was hoping for the color calibrater but only about $150.00 (so no
>lunches for a few weeks!)

Don't these LaCie costs need to be related to the other options' 
costs as well as to the budget? For example, the ViewSonic 90f Martin 
mentioned is maybe $100 less than the LaCie and the BlueEye plus its 
software is $100 - S150 more than its arguably superior competition. 
Is the LaCie integration worth such a large premium? And being stuck 
with the BlueEye when its monitor wears out?


>Since I'm going to be using a Canon FS4000D scanner for my slides and
>negs.

Is it preferred over the Nikon and Minolta competition on grounds of cost?


>  I will not be doing any in scanner editing since it works best
>to just scan at 42bit and out put at 42bit and do everything needed
>post scan (I read a lot about people fighting this scanner trying to
>turn it into an editing device so I'll skip that)
>
>So I'll still need a way to calibrate [only?] my Color printer a Canon i960
>but I can worry about that later.

Yes, but if you decide anytime soon that you want the Eye-One Photo 
solution, which I guess is certainly a contender, especially for 
anyone with more than one printer, then I believe CHROMiX.com would 
bundle the Eye-One Display solution for your monitor at no additional 
cost. So you might have an incentive to specify the whole system 
before precluding some of your options by buying some of it.


>Next to buy the monitor and start working on the Computer itself.
>
>WOW maybe I should just go finish the walls to my darkroom!

Good idea. 8)
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Sam