Digital BW, The Print

>  Is the general feeling that the new Printfix Pro is a worthy puchase?
> I did not get a lotta hits when doing a search on the product here.
> Ginny

If you are a commercial printer using many different papers, printers and ink combinations 
then I suggest purchasing an Eye-One or X-Rite's Pulse as the spectros read targets by 
scanning rows of patches. So building profiles will go faster. Cost about $1100.00 on up.

If you only have a handful of favorite papers to color profile – like myself – but want excellent 
profiles and the ability to tweak the profile -  then I'd recommend the PrintFIX PRO. Color 
targets are measured one patch at a time which sounds like it takes forever but goes fairly 
quickly. A 225 patch target takes me about five-six minutes to read. The 700+ target about 
20 minutes. Cost about $400.00+-

If you only want to use a spectro for QTR or IJC/OPM, run, don't walk to buy the PrintFIX PRO 
– that's what I did – as it reads LAB and Density values for input into both QTR and IJC/OPM. I 
can now build my own quad  "profiles" from scratch or tweak existing curves.