Digital BW, The Print

The new ColorVision package that was referred to may be the 
PrintFixPRO Suite package, which is due to be released later this 
week. This is all new software and hardware. It has almost no 
similarities to the former ColorVision "PrintFix" package. It has 
the PrintFixPLUS/PRO software and a completely new colorimeter, as 
well as the Spyder2 monitor calibration device and completely 
revamped software for monitor calibration.

Because I've had trouble getting good color matches with my Epson 
R1800, I've been looking around for sources of excellent printer 
profiling, which eventually led me to the PrintFixPRO package. I've 
been beta-testing it, and I've been truly amazed at the excellence 
of the results! Printer profiles (I realize that was not the 
original question, but bear with me...) are as good as the best I've 
ever received from an excellent custom profiling source, and they 
can be tweaked or re-made easily - if that is ever necessary. I've 
used just about every profiling source out there except the really 
costly GMB packages, and this just blows them all away. 

Back to monitor packages - The reviews of the current Spyder2 
monitor calibration package have been quite good, only giving the 
nod to the GMB package if one has to be able to frequently display 
many shades of white on the monitor (the example given was wedding 
photography). 

Disclaimer - no affiliation at all with ColorVision, other than as a 
person who is rather fussy about print quality, and who is very 
impressed with this new system. I'm going to buy it when it's 
released.

Bill Hansen