On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi David, > > The iMac 21.5 has a monitor similar to my old (not very old) imac 24. To get > a match to that 2400 printer. You'll probably end up with the brightness > turned all the way down, particularly if you're working in dim light. There > are expensive calibration devices that can help you determine that. But you > can also go with a bargain calibration device, like the ColorVision Spyder2 > Express that I use. You do need to calibrate at least for color accuracy. The > Spyder2 does a good job on that. I think it sells for about $70. I see B&H > now has a Spyder3 Express. I assume that's somewhat of an upgrade. It sells > for about $100. > > Once your monitor is accurate in terms of color balance, saturation and > white point (Spyder2 can handle all that quite well), you'll just have to > deal with brightness. A bit of trial and error works best here. Once you get > a print that you consider perfect, simply tweak the monitor brightness > adjustment to match. As I said, I think you'll find that you have to turn it > all the way down, or almost all the way down. You can spend more money and > try to dial the monitor in more precisely before you ever make a print, but > I think you'll find some manual tweaking will still be needed. The printer > and monitor are two different animals, and coupled with the operator's > subjective judgement, that means that it's all somewhat imprecise science. > But a decent calibration tool will ensure that you're close on color balance > and saturation. That's almost impossible to achieve manually. > > Paul
I have the older version, the Spyder I i bought from Mark a number of years ago. I found a small up grade a while back. Do you think the older Spyder I will work on today's computers. I see our local pusher has the Spyder III express for around $179 Canadian, maybe an upgrade should be in order.??? Dave > > > On Feb 4, 2011, at 11:01 AM, David J Brooks wrote: > >> I finally got around to hooking up my Epson 2400. I needed to clean >> the heads so all are fine now. >> >> I do not have my iMac calibrated but i wanted to see how it would >> print out and match the screen. >> >> Test print is coming out darker than the screen by a fair amount using >> LR 3 to adjust and print. If i lower the brightness of the screen by >> 5-6 clicks i get on screen what the print looks like. >> >> Is this a classic case of "get the dam monitor calibrated" or maybe a >> print setting. ?? I have checked those several times and cannot see >> any change it what i had been doing on the P C. No colour adjustment >> set, proper paper specs set etc. >> >> Dave >> >> -- >> Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. >> www.caughtinmotion.com >> http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ >> York Region, Ontario, Canada >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
