Well, to a given value of 'calibrating'.
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| Author: | jonlumb [ Wed Feb 20, 2013 11:46 pm ] |
| Post subject: | If you need your monitor calibrating |
The Prof will come over and do it in exchange for a good pizza. |
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| Author: | ProfessorF [ Wed Feb 20, 2013 11:50 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: If you need your monitor calibrating |
Well, to a given value of 'calibrating'.
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| Author: | Spreadie [ Thu Feb 21, 2013 9:17 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: If you need your monitor calibrating |
I was thinking of buying a Colorimeter (is that the right term?) Is it possible to calibrate a monitor and then set up a printer profile to produce a close(ish) match? * If I don't respond quickly to a reply it's because I've had to disable email notifications - x404 keeps spamming me every time I allow email alerts. |
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| Author: | paulzolo [ Thu Feb 21, 2013 11:08 pm ] |
| Post subject: | If you need your monitor calibrating |
I have a hardware calibration device, and it seems to work well with the printer as long as you have printer profiles for the printer AND papers you are using. To go be step further, you'd need to profile your input devices (scanner, camera) and your printer. |
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| Author: | tombolt [ Fri Feb 22, 2013 10:45 am ] |
| Post subject: | If you need your monitor calibrating |
The equipment for calibrating printers is expensive. Well, the equipment isn't, it's the software. I guess they know it's mostly print professionals using it, so price accordingly. I have an x-rite jobby that came with a now dead matchprint system and they want £1200 to unlock the calibration software. |
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| Author: | Amnesia10 [ Fri Feb 22, 2013 10:51 am ] | |||||||||
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That is extortionate! |
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| Author: | okenobi [ Fri Feb 22, 2013 11:56 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: If you need your monitor calibrating |
That is VERY good to know. Thanks 
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| Author: | BigRedX [ Fri Feb 22, 2013 2:35 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: If you need your monitor calibrating |
You could look at ColorMunki. The one I have is able to create profiles for your monitor(s) and printers. |
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| Author: | Spreadie [ Fri Feb 22, 2013 7:33 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: If you need your monitor calibrating |
I assume that the following are cheap because they are either crap or obsolete? Clicky 1 Clicky 2 |
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| Author: | JJW009 [ Fri Feb 22, 2013 7:55 pm ] | |||||||||
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Neither of them come with software. You'd need to check that was available for your OS, and wasn't really expensive. |
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| Author: | BigRedX [ Fri Feb 22, 2013 9:46 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: If you need your monitor calibrating |
For some reason, on the Mac colour calibrators are very sensitive to OS changes. At the last place I worked, where I was in charge of artwork, we must have gone through at least 5 different devices in the space of 10 years as each major OS update caused them to stop working reliably. Out of all the devices I've come across I could only really recommend the Colortron (pre-OSX only and required an ADB port) and the ColorMunki that I currently use. |
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| Author: | tombolt [ Sat Feb 23, 2013 12:04 am ] |
| Post subject: | If you need your monitor calibrating |
I must say, that colour monkey looks good. I notice it's a product of x-rite. What a bunch of shafting bastards... |
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| Author: | BigRedX [ Sat Feb 23, 2013 1:25 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: If you need your monitor calibrating |
It seems as though X-Rite buy up all the colour calibration devices that are any good. The Colortron was an X-Rite model too. I've never had a problem with them - for us it was always the LaCie devices that were most problematic. I assume your experience has been different? |
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| Author: | tombolt [ Sat Feb 23, 2013 5:21 pm ] | |||||||||
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No, they've been great, it's just the price they want to charge for me to use a perfectly good product on anything other than the dead printer it came with! |
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