Re: hardware advice
Re: hardware advice
- Subject: Re: hardware advice
- From: DaleH <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 07:52:56 -0500
on 11/28/01 7:08 PM, Jeff T MacWright wrote:
Any thoughts on Eyeone, ColorSavvy Spectrophotometer, X-rite Swatchbook, or
other reasonable ($$) devices. I have ColorSynergy and need to profile a
couple desktop printers. Or am I wasting my time without a strip reader?
I've got the $$ Eye-One and the $$$$$ Spectrolino/scan and I have to say
that the Eye-One makes profiles every bit as good as the Spectrolino AND a
lot faster to boot. And with the Eye-One you've got an upgrade path to
Gretag's ProfileMaker Pro package.
The way I see it: get Eye-One Match for $3K and you can make good profiles
but you PROBABLY won't have enough control to make really good inkjet and
offset profiles and NO way to edit them if they need tweaked or....
Get the Eye-One Pro ($1.5K) and ProfileMaker ($3K for the complete package)
and for $4.5K you've got a good professional profiling solution for about
half the price of a Spectroscan/ProfileMaker package. We have several happy
customers with this exact combo. Plus, if you ever end up with a Best
ColorProof RIP, they've just added direct hardware support for the Eye-One
for calibration/linearization.
I've been reading up on the Eye-One and notice that one of the
feature differences between the Eye-One Pro and the Eye-One Pro with
Eye-One Match is that the latter will profile and color manage output
AND input devices. Nowhere have I found any user comments on this
product's ability to manage scanners. I'd like to get away from
Agfa's ColorTune for our Duoscan and be able to profile older devices
like the SprintScan 35+.
DaleH