>
> You can pretty well pick any price you like from a few dollars up to
> $1100 or $1200. All you really need is something that is calibratable
> and will read visual density accurately. A few months ago I saw a
> tetherable Cosar CMYK densi with standards, fully functional, sell for
> $16.00 on E'bay. It will work. I know. I have one I purchased in 1997
> for about $1000 and used it recently for this. You can also get the
> Colorvision Printfix Pro package with spectro-colorimeter for about
> $400 or so and do this as well as make your own color icc profiles
> with it. Beyond that, you could go for more expensive packages from
> X-rite or go the i'1 route. You also have options for automated strip
> reading densitometers used on E'bay at about $200 or so, less if
> you're lucky. I work from two widely separated locations and, at one
> of them, use an efi mousitometer type densitometer I gave $5.00 for.(
> I had to write software to read and calibrate it however, so it
> probably was expensive if my time were valuable these days.)
>
> Regards
> Duane
>
>
> --- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com
> <mailto:QuadtoneRIP%40yahoogroups.com>, "gasparri50"
> <David_Smith_from_Qimage_group@...> wrote:
> >
> > 1. What is a good quality densitometer/spectrograph that can be used to
> > do custom curves with Quadtone RIP? Is a UV filter or software that can
> > compensate for optical brighteners necessary?
> >
> > What price is a suitable device?
> >
> > 2. Does anyone do on a commercial basis custom curves for those who do
> > not have a densitometer/spectrograph?
> >
> > I have had no problem getting good quality ICC profiles for color
> > materials such as RA-4 paper or inkjet color, but the profiling service
> > I use says that they cannot do black and white.
> >
>
>