Digital BW, The Print

In a message dated 3/6/06 3:18:32 PM, hrodkin@... writes:


> 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?
> 

I'd go through them all, but its probably not necessary if we approach it 
this way: If you want to control your prints, you want a spectro-based printer 
profiler. For ColorVision that means PrintFIX PRO, and the bundle that adds 
monitor calibration to that adds Spyder2PRO, the high end monitor calibrator, for 
only around a hunderd bucks more, so thats the thing to get: PrintFIX PRO 
Suite. If you are determined to work with your canned printer profiles instead of 
custom profiling your printer, then you can decide if you want the extra 
features of Spyder2PRO (projector calibration, multiple monitor matching, ambient 
light correction) or if   you just want to calibrate you monitor to common 
settings, in which case Spyder2 would be sufficient.

Oh, and since this is the B&W list, I'll mention that the PrintFIX PRO Suite 
would be of use in tuning B&W print systems as well... <G>

C. David Tobie
Product Technology Manager
ColorVision Business Unit
Datacolor Inc.
CDTobie@...
www.colorvision.com


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