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Printer profile

2012-04-30 by jaol_hsr

I used to get my printerprofiles from Cathys profiles but I can´t get any respons from there. I have a simpel Epson A4 printer that need a better profile and I wonder if someone could give me an advice on an another service. Since it is a cheap printer it can´t be an expensive service. 

Jan

Re: Printer profile

2012-05-02 by grandpollo

Since you didn't say what printer other than the brand, but Epson does have profiles for their printers and their paper and do not charge for those.

You don't offer much to go on here to help.

Since this is a datacolor group many people here will have a datacolor profiler and do their own profiles.

I think it should not be too hard to find custom profile services with a Google search. 


--- In datacolor_group@yahoogroups.com, "jaol_hsr" <jan.eve@...> wrote:
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> I used to get my printerprofiles from Cathys profiles but I can´t get any respons from there. I have a simpel Epson A4 printer that need a better profile and I wonder if someone could give me an advice on an another service. Since it is a cheap printer it can´t be an expensive service. 
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> Jan
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Re: Printer profile

2012-05-02 by jaol_hsr

It´s P 50 and it comes with a profil. Good but not good enough in my opinion. 
I had hoped that someone with experience of a good service could tip me of it.

Jan
--- In datacolor_group@yahoogroups.com, "grandpollo" <grandpollo@...> wrote:
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> Since you didn't say what printer other than the brand, but Epson does have profiles for their printers and their paper and do not charge for those.
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> You don't offer much to go on here to help.
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> Since this is a datacolor group many people here will have a datacolor profiler and do their own profiles.
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> I think it should not be too hard to find custom profile services with a Google search. 
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> --- In datacolor_group@yahoogroups.com, "jaol_hsr" <jan.eve@> wrote:
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> > I used to get my printerprofiles from Cathys profiles but I can´t get any respons from there. I have a simpel Epson A4 printer that need a better profile and I wonder if someone could give me an advice on an another service. Since it is a cheap printer it can´t be an expensive service. 
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> > Jan
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Re: [datacolor_group] Re: Printer profile

2012-05-02 by C D Tobie


On May 2, 2012, at 12:15 PM, jaol_hsr wrote:

It´s P 50 and it comes with a profil. Good but not good enough in my opinion.
I had hoped that someone with experience of a good service could tip me of it.

There are limitations to a profile built by a profiling service (and I used to run one of the most popular profiling services). First, its only as good as the media setting you build it on top of, and there is generally little or no thought put into the media setting used, where as there are tools for determining the optimal media setting built into SpyderPrint. Even more importantly, a profile you build yourself (well, with a good tool, the ColorMunki profiles offer no editing capabilities) allows you to tune the profile to your needs, and for increased soft proof accuracy, which reduces paper and ink costs for trial and error test prints. At a buck a print for media and ink on a letter size printer, the $300 or so that SpyderPrint costs is something you would eventually recoup. On a 13x19 printer, that cost increases significantly, and on wide format printers, its a foregone conclusion that better profiles save you money, as well as improving your prints.

C. David Tobie

Global Product Technology Manager


Datacolor
5 Princess Road

Lawrenceville, NJ 08648, USA

609.924.2189


Phone: 207.685.9248

Mobile: 207.312.0448

Fax: 207.685.4455

Skype: cdtobie

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