Profiling software

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Mark Herring
Jan 18, 2004
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Can anyone point me to a summary of the various options for printer profiling? I see many references to Colorvision, and I have also looked at Monaco ($$)
At the other end of the scale, I found "ProfilePrism" from DDI SW. ($79.00—–Too good to be true??)

What I am looking for is an affordable way of setting up a profile that gets me close. I am not ready to make the money and time investment for some of the more rigorous calibration solutions.

Windows 2000
PS 6
Epson 1280 with MIS archival ink (and eventually with B&W)

thanks

Mark
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WharfRat
Jan 18, 2004
in article , Mark Herring at
wrote on 1/18/04 8:08 AM:

Can anyone point me to a summary of the various options for printer profiling? I see many references to Colorvision, and I have also looked at Monaco ($$)
At the other end of the scale, I found "ProfilePrism" from DDI SW. ($79.00—–Too good to be true??)

What I am looking for is an affordable way of setting up a profile that gets me close. I am not ready to make the money and time investment for some of the more rigorous calibration solutions.
Windows 2000
PS 6
Epson 1280 with MIS archival ink (and eventually with B&W)
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Do not waste your money a system that
requires you to scan a printed chart, with your scanner, to write the profile.

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Graeme Cogger
Jan 18, 2004
In article ,
says…
Can anyone point me to a summary of the various options for printer profiling? I see many references to Colorvision, and I have also looked at Monaco ($$)
At the other end of the scale, I found "ProfilePrism" from DDI SW. ($79.00—–Too good to be true??)

What I am looking for is an affordable way of setting up a profile that gets me close. I am not ready to make the money and time investment for some of the more rigorous calibration solutions.
Windows 2000
PS 6
Epson 1280 with MIS archival ink (and eventually with B&W)
thanks

Mark
If you don’t need too many different profiles, the cheapest way is to go to someone like http://www.cathysprofiles.com/ and get some made. This site charges $40 each, and the profiles will be much better than you can make at any reasonable price. If you need a lot of profiles at a reasonable price then you’re talking about a scanner-based system. People have varying degrees of success with them, but Profile Prism is often regarded as the best of this type. They generally require a bit of work and numerous test prints to get something
worthwhile, and you run the risk of never being happy with the results.
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bhilton665
Jan 18, 2004
Mark Herring at wrote

Can anyone point me to a summary of the various options for printer profiling? I see many references to Colorvision, and I have also looked at Monaco ($$)

I’ve tried a couple of ~ $200 solutions, Colorvision Profiler Plus and Monaco EZ Color, and didn’t get very good results with either. The weak link appears to be using a scanner to make the target measurements. Some people like Barry Haynes ("Photoshop Artistry" author) report good results with these, but to me they were a waste of money.

Flycaster sent me two Epson 2200 profiles he made with a Gretag program (forget the exact name of the package), it was about $1,500 for the spectrophotometer and the software … these were a bit better than the ones Epson provided or the ones I got from George Lepp’s site (before he removed them for © reasons). If I were printing on lots of different papers that didn’t have supplied profiles I’d spring for this system.

If you just want to stick with a couple of papers I’d suggest having custom profiles made for each paper, about $99 each from the best guys.
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Flycaster
Jan 19, 2004
"Mark Herring" wrote in message
Can anyone point me to a summary of the various options for printer profiling? I see many references to Colorvision, and I have also looked at Monaco ($$)
At the other end of the scale, I found "ProfilePrism" from DDI SW. ($79.00—–Too good to be true??)

What I am looking for is an affordable way of setting up a profile that gets me close. I am not ready to make the money and time investment for some of the more rigorous calibration solutions.
Windows 2000
PS 6
Epson 1280 with MIS archival ink (and eventually with B&W)

The profiling package that Bill refers to Gretag Macbeth "Eye-One Photo." But, if you only need a couple of papers profiled, I’d second his recomendation. Try Profile City or Chromix for custom profiles

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Mark Herring
Jan 19, 2004
On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 08:08:51 -0800, Mark Herring
wrote:

Can anyone point me to a summary of the various options for printer profiling?

Thanks to all for the leads

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