Since I'm facing the prospect of soon needing to make a very high
quality print portfolio, I purchased a Colorvision PrintFix Pro kit with
a hardware paper spectrocolorimeter so I could make my own custom
printer/paper profiles. And all I can say is "Wow! Why didn't I do this
years ago?"
Hahnemuehl's profiles for their Fine Art Pearl paper were awful and I
had to resort to my own trial-and-error profiles (made with "PrintFix
Plus"). I eventually got a reasonable profile, but it took a lot of time
and effort and still left room for improvement. Making a test print and
measuring it with the spectrocolorimeter took about 10 minutes (not
including letting the print dry for a day!) and it nailed a perfect
profile. Great black & white prints with no fuss! Color prints that look
like what's on the monitor (as much as a CMYK image can look like an RGB
image). Amazing.
If I'd bought this years ago this set-up would probably have paid for
itself in saved ink and paper by now.
(BTW: I couldn't find the paper profiling hardware/software alone and so
had to buy the kit that included the monitor calibration set-up, even
though I already had that. That's why my Spyder2 monitor profiling kit
is for sale. Still available if anyone's interested.)
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