At 4:17 PM +0100 5/21/04, Shangara Singh wrote: > >Which one to opt for?
The best piece of advice I can offer is to say that custom profiling is a service, NOT a product/commodity. We've been building custom profiles for people for many years and have found that the pre and post-sales support and documentation can contribute to the success of profiling as much as equipment and technique. Now that I bring it up, equipment and technique also play a significant role. We have wanted to lower our price a number of times but find we cannot pay for the quality tech support that's required to get good profiles. It's pretty easy to buy and i1 Photo and start building profiles. Having a longer track record experiencing the piftalls and problems of inksets, paper types, RIPs, drivers, gray balance, operating systems, humidity, dry-down, lighting and metamerism, graphics applications, monitor calibration, and so forth can make the difference between "ok" and true professional-level results. Those who have invested in the professional-level equipment (like the Spectrolino, ICColor, ProfileMaker Pro, etc) will also have a longer list of variations they can apply to profile building (along with their experience level). I'm not pushing our profiling service, in fact I would recommend that if you want someone in Europe who has a long track record of building profiles you should consider Neil Barstow and Thomas Holm's service. There are others in Europe building profiles and I don't want to knock them but not with the track record of these guys. Think of it in terms of hiring a person to do a job. While you can find a really cheap haircut is it the cut you want? 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
