Digital BW, The Print

> From: Sam McCandless [mailto:samcc@...]
>
> Did you say spectrophotometer, instead of colorimeter, Antonis
> because a spectro' will be needed anyway in the use of a RIP or to
> profile the printer(s)? I'm thinking about not using a RIP and buying
> custom printer profiles from CHROMiX.com for $70 - $80 each. But
> assuming in that case that I'd use a colorimeter for the monitor and
> not need a spectro' at all?

True. If by colorimeter you mean a three-band device, that's all you really
need for monitor profiling, since it puts out three rather distinct
narrowband colors.

For printer profiling, a colorimeter is enough in theory, but I suspect that
in real life having 36 10nm bands like the Eye-One Pro makes it easier to
match the spectral response of the human eye, compared to brewing up the
right color dye filters to do the same thing.

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
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