Thanks for the clue about the pantone chips. Good idea. I have a Colorspan Esprit printer (11 colours including the four blacks - used to run their 12 colour, but this is better), and I know what you mean about matching colours, as I also run a 5500 (Epson). It's different in-house, as I have a fully profiled workflow, from scanner/digital camera back through to printer. (Gretag Macbeth) But I need it for my own work.
The brochure should at least look half-way decent or it won't sell the business well. I would print it myself but I can't print double sided on the 5500 on a glossy paper. Besides, the cost for me to have it printed is just $.50 Cdn per side, and I can't compete with that myself! Ellie On 28 Mar 2003 at 13:55, Bill Martin composed: > You can specify pantone colors, regardless of what your print looks > like. Just put a pantone color chip, taped to your printout, over the > color you want to match. > Because there is such a wide variation in colors that individual > desktop printers give you....you may come very close in the reds, but > have an olive where you are hoping to get a vivid green....or vice > versa....you could get a shade of purple, where you were hoping for > red. Depends on the printer and on the price you paid for your printer. > Regardless of what Epson says, the 3000 is one of the lousiest > color-matching machines made. We use them at work....because, out of > the box, they do come, sort of, close. And the people we are proofing > with, have the pantone chip to see what the color is "really" going to > be. > > Low-priced "photo" quality printers, regardless of how many ink tanks > they come with, are not. (photo-quality). > When I say low priced, I mean anything that costs under about $2,000 > US. If you want true photo-quality, hi-8 color, and want to spend a > bit of time with a high-end pre-press house, building an ICC profile, > look to the Roland Hi-Fi CMYKOG, wide format printers. > You WILL end up paying the same for a modestly equipped Land Rover, > however. > > Bill > > > On Friday, March 28, 2003, at 01:20 AM, Ellie Kennard wrote: > > > You're right, we were talking two different languages! They just > > pretended to understand me. > > > > They don't have a clue. Doesn't matter, though, as I will print off a > > copy as I want it to be and they said they'll try to get it right. It > > is just brochures for my own business, so I can't afford to have > > thousands printed at this point. > > > > No problem. > > > > Ellie > > > > > > > Outside of a dog, a book is mans best friend. > ......Inside of a dog, its too dark to read. > .....Groucho > > =============================================================== > GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE > ---------------------------------------------------------------- Ellie Kennard Innovative Imaging Studio http://www.iiStudio.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
