On 1 May 2005 at 15:42, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: > At 03:25 PM 5/1/05 -0400, David W. Fenton wrote: > >Surely it's installed if the monitor/video driver comes with a color > >management system, and not otherwise? > > Not always, nor always reliably. None came with the monitors I > presently use. You can choose various profiles for monitors and > printers. For example, my Sony 21-inch had no profiles, and its > site-downloadable profiles had an error, so I used third-party > profiles. My KDS 19-inch had three profiles to choose from. And > printers have their own sets of profiles -- plus profiles for the > paper itself -- and you get to play mix & match when producing > documents. It's even more fun if they're going to a print shop. :)
Well, I've absolutely no concern for print with this client. If they scan for print, we'll go to Kinkos and do it on a Mac. > Once everything is calibrated, it's a treat to produce prints that > look exactly like you composed the original picture in the camera, and > have articles appear with everything in proper color balance. > > VDTs are still recommended for graphics, by the way. I've been looking > at the LaCie monitors for a while, but they're out of the budget. Yes, but LCDs are *so* much more usable in terms of space. A large CRT takes up such a huge amount of space. I also find it easier to look at an LCD, too. The image looks sharper and the image not so tiring. If I can get monitor calibration software so that we can get scans of white/beige/cream colors that don't have a red hue, then that will solve the client's problem. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
