Re: inexpensive monitor calibration and profile calibration
Re: inexpensive monitor calibration and profile calibration
- Subject: Re: inexpensive monitor calibration and profile calibration
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 09:32:53 EDT
In a message dated 5/7/03 8:40:41 PM, email@hidden writes:
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You really can't get much more bang-for-the-buck than the Spyder w/ Photocal
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package.
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Since the original post had to do with education-based situations, its worth
noting that there is a 25% educational discount available on the Spyder,
which would bring the price down to around 170 bucks. Most resellers will
honor this, so direct purchasing from the company is not the only option for
educational situations.
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Anything less than that and you might as well be using the "Apple
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Default Calibrator"!
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CRTs are pretty linear, so AdobeGamma et al are not too problematic there; I
wouldn't recommend that approach for LCDs, however!
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> Also, any low end paper/inkset/printer profiling solutions that might
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> be worth anything?
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Go the low-end route and you'd better prepare to offer a separate course in
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profile editing! Cost of a profiling package is somewhat inversly
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proportional to the amount of editing required to achieve decent results.
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Unless you're lucky. Or good. Or both.
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The upcoming PrintFIX product from ColorVision may change that equation a
bit; its in the price range of software only, scanner-based solutions, but
should build profiles that meet basic photo needs without much, if any,
editing.
C. David Tobie
Design Cooperative
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