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Jeff Miller October 16th, 2006 11:55 AM

Monaco EZcolor Suite
 
Has anyone used this?
I was shopping for a colorimeter and was told about it. Costs about $100 more then a nice colorimeter, but also calibrates scanner and makes an ICC profile for your printer as well. This sounds rad, any opinions?
Thanks!

Bill Ravens October 16th, 2006 12:04 PM

I use a gretag macbeth device. monaco also makes something called the spider. I suggest you read the product reviews available by doing on online search. the performance differs slightly for each colorimeter, as well as the price.

Jeff Miller October 16th, 2006 12:20 PM

Thanks Bill.
I was originally looking at a Gretag, the printer profiling swept me on this one. I've read a couple good reviews for Mac, but I'm on PC, I assume they are "samey". ::shrugs::

Jeff Miller October 21st, 2006 05:11 PM

I've since read that home based printer profiling that uses a scanner could work but might still be dicey. The best argument I've seen was that flatbed scanners were never meant to be used as spectrophotometers. If it's dicey output, you've lost the time you saved.

I also keep hearing that LCD's do not calibrate as readily as CRT's, bummer since my graphic-centric stations are LCD :P


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