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Re: [Digital BW] Re: "color" management without instruments

2005-10-03 by Ben Rosengart

On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 03:07:46PM +0100, Steve Kale wrote:
> 
> Unfortunately colour management is only as good as your weakest link.  It
> also isn't perfect.  But with a good measurement device such as the Gretag
> Macbeth Eye One you can most anything you'll likely need (display, colour
> printer, greyscale ICCs, RIP linearization etc).  They still aren't cheap
> (even though they are dramatically cheaper than they used to be) but they
> are incredibly useful.

Looks like there are a bunch of products and bundles sold under the
"Eye One" name.  Which one in particular do you recommend?

Wow, "Eye-One Photo" is US$1400.  And you wonder why I might "deprive
myself"?  :-)

-- 
 Ben Rosengart                                          ben@...
       "Young people should be seen and not heard, because they're
        good-looking but not too bright.  We're pretty bright now,
        but we're ugly." -- Grace Slick on the '60s youth movement

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