Digital BW, The Print

Thanks Greg, that's interesting information.

I've been having my colour profiles made by Dry Creek and doing my 
own B&W ones with a densitometer, but keep thinking about a 
spectrophotometer like the  Eye-One, mainly because of its usefulness 
beyond just printer profiling.

What sort of an instrument is the PrintFixPro device?

Best,
Helen

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Greg" 
<dfaprinting@y...> wrote:
>
> The colorimeter will not be as accurate.
> 
> It may be close, as the old system that was exactly like this was 
> close, but not as accurate. Owning many different tools (hardware 
and 
> software and including the old Colorvision system), I can tell you 
> that a real spectrophotometer is the best way to go. Short of that, 
I 
> would say you might consider having someone build your profiles for 
> you. The i1 Photo and Xrite Pulse are both very good, and to 
journey 
> above that is more than another $2000 to $4000 for the software 
> (Gretag PMP starts at around $2000 plus you need a spectro). I'm 
> currently using Xrite's Monaco Profiler Platinum, or Heidelberg 
> Printopen with either an i1 or Xrite DTP20UV (Pulse spectro), and 
all 
> I can tell you is that they work well. Profiler gives a bigger 
> target, but they both produce excellent results. I haven't tried 
the 
> Pulse software, and may never try it (since I have Profiler). It 
was 
> simply only another $50 for the full Pulse system, with the Optix 
XR2 
> for the monitor, over the price of the spectro alone. I would 
> recommend that you throw another $500+ at your colormanagement 
> solutions if you definitely want to do the profiles yourself. If 
the 
> Printfix Pro software is worth having, I would still recomend a 
real 
> spectrophotometer to use with it, and you might want to get the UV 
> filtered version of that spectro.
>