Digital BW, The Print

Colorvision went through a period of bad spyders some time ago. Though
they replaced many, sometimes multiple times, this admittedly harmed
the reputation of the product.
As I mentioned before, between 4 different monitor profiling apps and
3 different measuring devices, the new SpyderPro2 is giving the best
results here. Of course, that's just here, and others results may
differ. Also, it is the more expensive of their monitor packages.
PrintFix is a somewhat low end economy RGB printer profiler, somewhere
between the low end scanner based profilers and the more expensive
spectro based approaches. I would expect results to fall in between
there accordingly.
On the other hand, ProfilerPro, with a good spectro, still makes RGB
printer profiles that are very hard to top. It also makes very good
CMYK profiles. Again, I've compared results to other apps.
In terms of investment, as a package for both monitor and RGB printer
profiles, the EyeOne Photo is all in one and good for the price. I
still like the SpyderPro2, and ProfilerPro results better. The higher
end Gretag stuff may even out the results, maybe not.
Monaco is defintely worth looking at as well, and basICColor.
With all this stuff, you get what you pay for, and still need to learn
all the tricks. You can do good or bad work with any of them.
Tyler

 --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "koloshor"
<wiz@n...> wrote:
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Dean
<dean@t...> wrote:
> > Hey!
> > 
> > This is a little off topic, since it is a more general enquiry and not
> > related specifically to B&W. I hope I can be forgiven though.
> > 
> > I need a new monitor calibration thingy. I'm thinking I might get the
> > ColorVision PrintFIX Suite. Does anyone have an opinion on this
> > combination package?
> 
> In a different thread today, someone made the remark "there is never
any concensus on this list". Apparently, they were wrong.
> 
> I'll join the others and say that I also have a Spyder and an
Eye-One Photo, and there's simply no comparison. With the monitor
calibrated by the Spyder, I can't get a good monitor-to-print match
with either "stock" profiles or profiles made for me by Cathy or Tom
Green. With the Eye-One profiling my monitor, I get a good match to a
good profile. And I can make my own profiles and also have them come
out "good".
> 
> Colorvision can (in the immortal words of Bart Simpson) eat my shorts.