Digital BW, The Print

I had been seriously considering the Eye-One Design to profile my monitor, 
as well as generate RGB profiles for my 2200 and 1160 printers with a 
variety of papers and inks.  You have given me GREAT pause.

So what DO you recommend as an entry level spectro based RGB and monitor 
profiling system?  I believe the next step up in the GMB line goes for 
about $1400 - $1500?

Any input would be greatly appreciated.

Jack Winberg

At 06:35 PM 4/17/2005, you wrote:
>From: "dfaprinting" <dfaprinting@...>
>Subject: Re: Heavy Chocolate profile for QTR?
>
>
>If you ONLY need a spectrophotometer, then you can get the Eye-one
>Design for around $750 USD from www.ecolortools.com . Let me stress
>this again, get this ONLY if you need JUST the spectro, the profiles
>generated with the extremely limited software are not good (normally
>I would use other words, but I'm trying to be polite). I don't know
>exactly what GMB was thinking when they decided to make a package
>that uses all of 45 patches to make a CMYK profile, they just come
>out looking ugly! That was tested using a printer connected to a
>properly limited/linearized RIP, applied either in the RIP or in
>Photoshop, both methods looked ugly.
>
>I haven't tested the RGB profiles, and based on the CMYK I don't
>think I ever will. I had much better results from Monaco EZcolor
>version 2 than with the Design software. I'm not even very fond of
>the monitor profile that it generated, but I'm willing to try again
>and see if it works better the second time. The only bonus with mine
>was a certificate for half price of either the RGB or CMYK upgrade
>(only one). That means you could get the printer portion of the Eye-
>one Photo for about $900USD.
>
>



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