At 7:18 PM +0100 5/10/04, Campos & Davis Photos wrote: > >>>With a monitor >calibrated to industry standards and a printer profiled to industry >standards,<<<< > >Please could I have suggestions as to what is the current favourite >hardware/software combination to achieve this. I have been playing with an >X-rite patch sampler but it delivers data which is very mixed up and needs >to be reformatted in a text file before it can be used.
You have a few choices and, with new product introduced at drupa this week, you'll have a few more. I'll start buy talking as if you were to run out and buy something today. GretagMacbeth holds a patent on building a device that will read reflective AND emissive in the same instrument. So in the mainstream product offerings you will only see a device from them (the Eye-One) that will calibrate your display AND allow you to profile your printer. In monitor calibration there's X-Rite/Monaco Optix (good instrument, great software) and GretagMacbeth Eye-One (good instrument, good software) In print profiling the Eye-One Pro instrument (combine with software in the Eye-One Photo or Publish products) is the way to go that won't bust your budget or drive you crazy with single patch reading. Now with drupa announcements in mind: - GretagMacbeth has announced an automated device (the iO) that attaches to your Eye-One and totally automates the reading - X-Rite has announced a new product called the "Pulse" that is a lot like the current Eye-One Pro (no monitor calibration though) and another one that fully automates the readings (like GretagMacbeth's ICColor). How these will be priced and what software is bundled is yet to be determined. Hope that helps. Regards, Steve ________________________________________________________________________ o Steve Upton CHROMiX www.chromix.com o (hueman) 866.CHROMiX 206.985.6837 o ColorGear ColorThink ColorValet ColorSmarts ProfileCentral -- =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
