Digital BW, The Print

> From: borgida [mailto:borgida@...]
>
> I would like to purchase a spectrophotometer for making curves with
> my UT2 inks/paper/printer.  I know there is the eye one photo
> spectrophotometer but that is more money than I would like to spend.
> Bill Schwab informed me he uses the XRITE DTP-22 which is definitely
> more within my price range..half the cost of an eye one photo.
>
> Please let me know what all of you (who are making their own MIS
> curves) are using for a spectrophotometer.

I haven't built any B&W curves, but have done some color profiling with the
EyeOne. You certainly don't need a full spectro to build curves, since
that's a multi-band device for analyzing color spectra. Indeed, a
single-band densitometer would be enough. However, a three-band colorimeter
is probably what you want, since you may someday find the ability to do
basic color measurements useful as well.

The question is: how many patches do you need to read, in order to build
curves? The main thing wrong with the cheap single-reading colorimeters is
that they take a long time to read a color test target, which can have
upwards of 900 patches. But for B&W, You may find a low-end colorimeter like
the ColorMouse from Color Savvy perfectly acceptable. I believe that's what
ColorVision is now selling with their profiling package, rebranded.

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
Paul                mailto:pderocco@...