----- Original Message ----- From: "David J Brooks" Subject: Re: Shoppers Drug Mart changing their printers
> Quoting William Robb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Spyder is excellent for referencing your system for consistency, you >> can >> still expect to need to make minor tweaks to match their system. > > I'm actually into profit mode from the horse shows now, so i'll be > picking one of these up soon, now that it won't be "out of pocket" so > to speak. > The minor tweaks you speak of, thats me maching my colour on scren to > what they have printed out before. Correct. Thats right. In theory, if you have your system calibrated, and they have their system calibrated, then it should be WYSIWYG. Unfortunately, this may only work in theory, since your calibration reference isn't the same as theirs. When I had both my lab and home system in calibration, I was, for the most part, able to take files from home to work and print with very little corrections, but the need for minor tweaks was still there. If you can get your files to the point that the lab doesn't have to do a lot of work on them, everyone is happier. As an aside, I shot a wedding back in late August, but didn't get to the printing until after my vacation. I took the files to the lab I used to work at, and they totally buggered the colour, to the point I was questioning whether I had given them good files or not. I had, but they have let the machine drift so far out of spec that my calibration may as well have not been done. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
