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Re: [colorvision_group] Re: Reading targets this is what I did to read them faster and accurately

2006-03-13 by randy

I bet you have small children.

eieiomoomooheremoomoothere wrote:

>Hey Randy,
>I am glad you noticed heheheh. With a baaabaaa here and a baaabaaa 
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>>--- In colorvision_group@yahoogroups.com, randy <rlphoto@> wrote:
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>>>I just noticed your user name.  Brightened my day!
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>>>Cool idea on the stripe.  It is really hard to see the nozzle on 
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>>>Randy
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>>>eieiomoomooheremoomoothere wrote:
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>>>>For what it's worth...
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>>>>When reading targets, I turn the printed target sheet so I am 
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>>>>them from top to bottom as opposed to left to right. 
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>>>>Then I took some white gaffers tape and cut it to about 4mm wide 
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>>>>20mm long making a thin white stripe. I put this on the side of 
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>>>>Spectrocolorimeter head, so now I have a reference as to where 
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>>>>head is lined up on the sheet. I put three of these white 
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>>>>the Spectrocolorimeter head one on the left, right and top.
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>>>>OK, I know what your thinking yeah it looks like a zebra (LOL) 
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>>>>find I am able to read a 255 target sheet in 6min or less. 
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>>>>Also I found the Spectrocolorimeter did not move smoothly on 
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>>>>papers so I put some Teflon stickers on the feet of the 
>>>>Spectrocolorimeter. Then I cut some Teflon stickers in 1mm strip 
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>>>>about 5mm long and put them on the around the head of the 
>>>>Spectrocolorimeter making sure then were in no way interfering 
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>>>>the measurements of the targets. I find the Spectrocolorimeter 
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>>>>glides with minimal effort and is much faster and more accurate.
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>>>>Also I would like to add I am extremely happy with PrintPIX Pro.
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>>>>Keep up all the good work,
>>>>Brian
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