re-Self calibrating printers
re-Self calibrating printers
- Subject: re-Self calibrating printers
- From: Mike Blumenthal <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 12:47:59 -0500
the HP Desighjet series of plotters do this. they recalibrate every time you
change inks and or paper. I am not sure how they do it but since the factory
profiles seem very accurate and have stayed so over time, I presume that it
is reliable
Mike B
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> The benefit is you
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> have a self-calibrating device that will keep itself in check longer
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> than a normal monitor and will require reprofiling less often. If
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> only printers would do this too!
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Certain laser/copiers do something along this line, but like the ColorSync
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monitors the question is *how well* they do it, and the answer is: usually
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not well enough. Unless you use a spectro, or at least a densitometer, to
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read the reliniarizaton target, the results from reading it on the glass of
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the device will be variable enough to negate much of the value of the
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reliniarization.