--- Jim Davis Nature Photography wrote: > > I don't think any of it is necessary either. > Consistancy is what you > need. Find the right colour temperature to view your > prints and you > will be able to adjust them to the prints you get > back easily enough. > Hmm, yeah, you can adjust it by eye. But how many sheets of paper are you going to go through, and how much time will you spend, trying to do so? Every time you print a shot with a significantly different color balance than what your "normal" shots are, you're going to go through this adjust / print / compare / repeat cycle trying to get consistency. A true color managed system can save a lot of time (and time is money.)
Unfortunately, the inexpensive scanner based solutions to color management offer, umm, inconsistent or downright incorrect results. Using a true colorimeter will get one much more accurate, much more consistent profiles. See: http://www.colorvision.com/ for what may be the best combination of price / quality. I say might, because I haven't stayed current with new products in this marketplace, and there may be something better by now. But if you only use a few papers, you don't really need to buy the printer profiling hardware. There are services available that will do it for you. They send you a standard file to print, you mail the print to them, and they build a profile for that specific paper/ink/printer combo and send it to you. The better services will do a second cycle: print the standard image again, using the profile, send them the print, and they'll send you a refined profile as necessary. You'll still want to profile your monitor, whether with Adobe Gamma (installed by Photoshop, BTW, not part of Windows) or using a Spyder type device (the better alternative. The idea behind color management is to use profiles to make all your devices conform to a single standard, so profiling only one device (the printer OR the monitor) doesn't really solve the problem. You can probably find some of these service providers via Google, but I'd suggest joining the Yahoo Epson_Printers group to get some recommendations, whether you choose to buy the equipment or buy professionally made profiles. HTH, ===== Bob Meyer I wish I knew what I know now, when I was younger... http://www.meyerweb.net/epson __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/ * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
