Re: Help Choosing a Color Management System
Re: Help Choosing a Color Management System
- Subject: Re: Help Choosing a Color Management System
- From: Andrew Rodney <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2002 16:32:20 -0700
on 3/8/02 4:13 PM, Dennis Hegyi at email@hidden wrote:
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What I have been able to learn is that Colorvision has a bundle for $499
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that includes a 7 filter monitor calibration system and a printer
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calibration, but does not have any privisions for calibrating the
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scanner which seems to me to be a fundamental flaw. On the other hand,
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for $499, Monaco has a 3 filter monitor calibration system and a
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calibrated target for calibrating the scanner which would seem, in
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principle, to be all that is necessary to establish a closed loop
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calibration. Which of these systems would be preferable, and would it
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be necessary to go to a hand held scanner based system for about $2500
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to get a reliable system? Or asked another way, would a few tweaks on
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either the Colorvision or the Monaco system be good enough?
First, I wouldn't necessarily take the number of sensors in either
Colorimeter to mean a lot. I'm sure some might argue more is better. The
accuracy of the device, the software that drives it and so on are far more
important.
Yes, having the scanner in the loop is very important. So if you have a
scanner, the lack of a solution from Color Vision means you'll need to look
somewhere else. Some scanners can't be profiled. You didn't mention what
scanner you were using. Some description of the RGB it produces needs to be
defined.
A hand held Spectrophotometer in nearly every case will produce a better
profile than a scanner and in some cases is the only tool that will work
correctly. For an Epson 7000 with pigmented inks, I think trying to get a
decent profile from a scanner is an exercise in futility. Perhaps others
here have been successful but I haven't and I have both products and some
pretty fancy scanners. To be fair, I've made scanner based profiles for
devices like a Fuji Pictography that was very close to a Spectrophotometer
made profile. So the products can work. Don't rely on the tweaking sliders
in either product to "fix" a poor profile. Tweaking is what they can do and
not very much of it.
If your wife is only dealing with one paper, forget even worrying about a
profiling package for the printer. There are a number of services that will
remotely profile a printer for you. Going price is about $100 and these
people will use a Spectrophotometer and some fancy software. The Epson
should be a relatively stable device. If however she decides to use lots of
different papers or ink combo's, then it would be a good idea to look into
building profiles in house.
Andrew Rodney
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