Digital BW, The Print

I'm pretty confused by the range of Colorvision products and I'm not
even sure how to ask the question. 
 I'm a serious, but not professional photographer, who both scans slides
and negatives and shoots digitally. I have a 19' Dell flatbed monitor,
and an Epson 2400 printer. By following the Epson manual my prints are
close, but only close, and the monitor and especially the print with
preview are not. How close will the Spyder2 Suite get me to seriously
managing my color through to the final print? I guess the question is
what can I expect from each of the products?
Howard
 
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Subject: Re: [Digital BW] what type of calibration system
 

In a message dated 3/4/06 2:03:45 PM, mxgo95747@... writes:


> 
> I have a Sypder2 for calibrating my Apple LCD, I then print an image
on my 
> Epson 2400
> with an ABW setting of normal (or dark) and change, by eyeball, my
"color 
> settings" custom
> dot gain curve to match the LCD 21 step curve image.  I always seem to
be 
> off just slightly
> on the range from about 80 to 100% settings.
> 
> Now, what will the Spyder2Pro unit do, from what I stated above, for
me?  If 
> the
> Spyder2Pro unit gets me closer to "what you see, is what you get"
status, is 
> there an
> upgrade for my Spyder2 unit to the Sypder2Pro calibration status?
> 
Certainly Spyder2PRO would allow you to choose a custom gamma, or even
tweak 
your response curve to a "non-gamma" shape, which seems to be what you
are 
descibing above. Personally, I prefer to make my corrections at the
other 
(printer profile) end, so using a color managed B&W system, or using Roy
Harrington's 
black and white preview profile tool with your current printing method,
would 
be the choices I would prefer; but now we've gone from upgrading your
Spyder 
software to upgrading to the PrintFIX PRO Suite with Spyder2PRO, to
build 
those curves... so I'm getting you in deeper and deeper.

C. David Tobie
Product Technology Manager
ColorVision, Inc.
CDTobie@...
www.colorvision.com


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