On May 2, 2012, at 12:15 PM, jaol_hsr wrote:
It´s P 50 and it comes with a profil. Good but not good enough in my opinion.
I had hoped that someone with experience of a good service could tip me of it.
There are limitations to a profile built by a profiling service (and I used to run one of the most popular profiling services). First, its only as good as the media setting you build it on top of, and there is generally little or no thought put into the media setting used, where as there are tools for determining the optimal media setting built into SpyderPrint. Even more importantly, a profile you build yourself (well, with a good tool, the ColorMunki profiles offer no editing capabilities) allows you to tune the profile to your needs, and for increased soft proof accuracy, which reduces paper and ink costs for trial and error test prints. At a buck a print for media and ink on a letter size printer, the $300 or so that SpyderPrint costs is something you would eventually recoup. On a 13x19 printer, that cost increases significantly, and on wide format printers, its a foregone conclusion that better profiles save you money, as well as improving your prints.
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