Digital BW, The Print

Yep there's a lot of bits that need to do their job well - a good graphics
card, stable monitor, good spectrophotometer, good profiling software and a
good, regular user.  There is also a lot of debate about the quality of the
various spectrophotometers out there, especially those at the cheaper end.
I was reading yesterday about home theatre plasma calibration and came
across the results of a shoot out for equipment and software which runs into
the thousands of dollars.  Alas we can't all afford a PhotoResearch PR-650.


> From: Jim Farrell <jim@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 08:03:54 +0100
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: RE: [Digital BW] Matching Monitor and Print
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> Just to add some more into the mix, I run a PC system with a iiyama 454
> monitor. I use Eye-one Pro with 'Basiccolor' profiling software. I recently
> changed from a Radeon 9000 AGP card to a Radeon 9200SE card, it made a huge
> difference to the profile. The basiccolor software displays the 'delta E'
> value (max deviation), this should approach zero for a perfect profile; with
> the old AGP card I found it hard to get the value to less than 5 (you can
> probably visually match to around this value), to less than 2 with the new
> card. I normally run my monitor with a gamma of D65.
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> I can clearly see the step wedge at both ends.
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> BTW, The basiccolor software is available from their web site on a 14day
> trial; it works with most spectro's.
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> Hope this helps
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> Jim Farrell
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